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Show TOO MUCH INQUIRY INTO PERSON'S AGE? The demand of public officials that the citizen declare bis sg on every pretext Is plec of obnoxious bureaucracy. bu-reaucracy. You do not need to tell your exact age In order to vote. The women saw to that In short order. But you must tell It In order to obtain motor veblcl license. Two million persons In the next few months will need to writ down their ages for the perusal of license bureau clerks or any traffic officer. The plea that this Is necessary for police pur poses Is ridiculous. Identification can be made by other means in emergencies. emergen-cies. A crook who was trying to "beat" Identification would not be greatly distressed by this requirement Dr. Charles E. Jefferson of th Broadway Tabernacle church, spoke out two years ago against sg requirements require-ments on passports, licenses and the like, if more Would speak out, a change to a proper basis would be speedy. Person might be required to state It they ar "of age." But that Is sufficientNew suffi-cientNew York American. |