The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
NESBITT STRESSES
 IMPORTANCE OF ALL !. PREPARING ID VOTE
State Democratic Chairman In Letter to Dr. ShrOp- shire, Cites List of I'm
 pOrtant Offices

In a letter addressed to Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire, president of the Civitan club, W. P. Nesbitt. chairman of the state democratic executive committee, calls at tention to the number and character of offices to be filled by the voters of Ala bama next year and stresses importance of every person Of voting age paying his poll tax, if he is subject to the tax, and registering.
 MT. Nesbitts letter. which Dr. shrop- shire had read at the Civitan luncheon yesterday. follows:
 "Dr. C. w. Shropshire, President Civitan
 Club. Birmingham, Ala:
 My Dear Doctor-On account of the pressure of business and high water f your letter of the 18th ult has not been earlier answered.
 ''I am attaching hereto list indeat- irg the various state. county and federal officers to be voted for in the elections of 1920
 May I take this occasion to congratu- late the club upon the publicity work which they are undertaking along this most needed line. Irrespective of party, personal interest or industrial affiliations, it is absolutely essential for the continua- ton or SOou government uaueE NHSliS II institutions that a very much larger per cent of all of our people take an active part in the selecting of governmental off ficers charged. from time to time, With handling this business of all the people. We seem to have come out of this war with a tremendous increase of class con- sciousness and a corresponding decrease of individual responsibility to the gov ernment Our government is one in ,fs,l, .1 ind al hoe ha mo O. sponsibility and. opportunity. as each of the other 1ic.OOo.000 persons making up our tensely striving population.
 We seem to have temporarily over locked the fact that all of our individual, group or class endeavors are futile, and progress and accomplishment are impos- sble except the great laws of God first and of good government. second, continue to give such assurance as protects each in undertakings made in accord with these laws. If there was a doubt in our the future, as it has arisen and set in the the future, as it has arisen and set nj the past, our confusion would be complete and our plans unavailing. Only second to such confusion and distress is that which follows uncertainty as to the con tinued application and enforcement of laws made for the protection and benefit of individuals and for society as a whole and under which each individual has the opportunity of certainly planning for his own advancement and for the betterment of his dependents.
 We must awake to the fact that only under the administration of good gov ernment can individual effort or class purpose bring proper reward We m1% realize, further, that in our democratic form of government where, with the peo- pie themselves rest the power, that un- less the individuals making up the mass take sufficient interest to acquaint them selves with conditions, and to vote their ideas in the selection of those carrying tie governmental affairs, we will be bad- ly governed by a few who do take tn~ terest, and frequently solely for personal or class advancement.
 With kind regards, I am, yours very truly, W. D. NESBITT. Chairman State Democratic Executive
 Committee"
 OFFICES TO BE FILLED
 State officers to be elected in 1920:
 President public service commission,
 Two assistant justices of supreme court.
 One appellate court judge
 Twelve presidential electors,
 Ten congressman.
 Commissioner of conservation (acts of 19ls).
 County officers to be elected in 1920:
 One coroner.
 County commission, or board of revenue or courts or boards of like Jurisdiction.
 One tax assessor.
 One tax collector
 Two justices of the peace.
 One constable for each precinct.
 County board of education.