Show THUMB PRINTS OF AUTO DRIVERS One Has to Stand a Rigid Ex Examination Examination 1 to Run a Ma Machine Ma Machine i chine in Argentine I I Basil Johnson a well known British motorist gives an nn interesting Inter sUng account I of ot how a license Is granted in the Ar Argentine Argentine gentine Republic He lIe has has recently re returned returned I turned from Buenos Ayres A reg and he says he of l that was submitted to all sorts indignities by the Hie police officials of that city says an exchange They compelled j I him to go through the tile regular criminal Identification thumb prints I He also had to supply three photo photographs photographs photographs graphs of himself The following are among other points he says on which he had to quench their thirst for knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge The birthplace and Christian name of 01 father mother self wife and chil chit children children dren with ages Names ames of ot mother and wife before marriage Present places of residence of or all the above When I arrived in Ia the Argentine and by what ship What relations have above aboe in South America and where My 13 brothers and sisters names name and places daces of or resi rest residence residence dence deuce What Vhal scars I have hae My height and a description of my m appearance I 1 was finally finall told that I J might be examined In driving in a weeks time Um if it the references I gave proved satisfactory satis satisfactory factory I WIS was in due course examined In driving and md then told that I might get my license in a week or two but have since found that neither a 11 li license cense for cars nor drivers are apparent apparently ly necessary as I 1 have been driving three separate and unlicensed and un unnumbered unnumbered Unnumbered numbered cars about the town for nearly a month and the police appear to take no interest in the matter what whatever whatever ever eyer I am ant now able to understand why wh there are ar eo so few gentlemen who drive their own cars in Buenos Ayres as it Is IA it evidently considered d a pastime to be Indulged in only and brigands of the dye |