The star-progress., 1921-04-13
STATE SECRETARY
GETS AFTER THE
DELINQUENT CARS
Agent Here to
Round Up Owners Who
Haven't Paid License
WILL FILE AFFIDAVITS
AGAINST SLOW ONES
Cars Bearing 1920 Tags Liza
BILE to Be Pinched With
in Few Days

Owners OF automobiles bearing the
1920 license tag had better sit up and
take notice. Secretary of State Bailey,
who has in charge the ollsc.ing Of
licenses for automobiles and he :ssu-
ing of the proper tags avideneing ihe
payment of such license, has sent .
special deputy 20 So. Landry parish
for the purpose at rounding un the
cars that still bear the 1920 license
tag, Notwithstanding The fact that the
time limit for the payment OF the 1921
license expired some time ago. In
fact, there are still a few cars bear
ing the 1919 tag, which shows thar
their owners did not pay any license
for 1920 whatever.
According to statement made By
one in the know, ST. Landry parish is
one of the worst, If not the worst, IN
the entire state relative to this In
excusable delinquency on the part Of
car owners in paying the annual II
cense which permits them to operae
over the public highways without rum
ming the risk of being arrested for
either not bearing a proper tag or no
tag at all Mr. Bailey is determined
that this nefarious practice viii cease
in this parish, and his resolve on that
score accounts for the sending Of the
special deputy here for the purpose of
getting line on the car owners who
haven't come across with their 1921
payment with his office.
The wilful ones and the forgefful
ones and the slow ones will receive
hard jolt when warrants are served
on them, or some Of them have their
cars seized because Of the failure or
unwillingness to pay the license re-
quired by law. There is custom
among a small class to cheat the law
in very small way. The law requires
that two tags shall be on each motor
vehicle, both tags bearing the same
number and the license plates are
therefore issued in duplicate. Some
owners, especially in the rural dis.
tricts, buys set Of tags, place one On
their own and lend or sell the other
tag of the pair to some other car own.
er. Therefore, there are two cars
: bearing the same number but the mat
ter is overlooked by the public and nc
one is the wiser because Of one mans
duplicity. II the law was strictly en-
forced, as it is in the larger Giles, All
cars bearing but one tag would b.
jerked up, for, according to Mr. Bal
ley, car bearing but one tag Is jas
as guilty as car with no tag or !
last years tag.
The fund collected from the sal'
of license tags Is prorated among thl
several parishes, according to th.
? amount received by the secretary .
. state from such parishes. less, >
5 course, certain small amount reserv
: ed for expenses CT operating the d.
: partment OF the secretary's office a
voted to the collecting Of the license
!. The money turned into the seyera
p parishes is spent on the maintenance
> Of the public highways a1d thus goa
I. directly back % the people paying tn
4 tax. Every automobile owner Is a
/, enthusiastic booster for better higl
!. ways and should therefore not hesiti
q te to pay his annual license IN order
$ further the cause of better roads.
e The time limit for the payment /
= this license has expired and Mr.. Ba
ley proposes to do all In his power
enforce the collection of the amour
% due by the delinquent owners Of Car
:. It would be advisable for these d
n, linquents to get busy at once and Sc
~ tie the score before they are hauls
" over the Goals and and the cham
- of the process costing them mus
. more than the mere purchase Of Il
Il license plates required by the law.