Show CRIME IN washington ELSEWHERE aa lawyer who has 11 as since become eminent in his profession s once told tile the writer that good ordinary common sense was doubt loss right although many litigants have assert asserted td with warmth that thoy could see bec no kinship between the law lav and commonsense common sense In Washington 0 one abne need not nob be accused of any any lack of good judg ment if he w sometimes makes a mistake as to mitat statis is tile the law of the district bofto not to say the 1 lw of the land tho the law occasionally seems te tc be based on oil anything but common c sense although it if one groped long ong cemough in the hill dim past to lell eer certain tain laws were passed lie might become satisfied that even tile the most unreasonable laws wort leei in fact based on oil some reasonable basis agis anti and were intended to subi ervo some sensible end this may be said of the law recently enacted which requires thae thac all the do dogs rs in ill tile the district of columbi x abe bo muzzled ton for one year why dogs in winter the dog clog owners ask but there have been a good many c cases a es of r in washington and perhaps tho the muzzle the logs dogs it ia a wise one it is doubtful whether all alltha thi ds dogs in washinton washington ton are worth one human life alth although this propos ion is ia advanced wi with tl 1 a certain amount of timid timidity aty in view of tile tho atrit attitude lido taken by tile the do dog L advocates one would suppose that any sian auman or child who would ander taketo to cultivate a portion i of his bis heror its yard and grow there in useful vegetables such as corn peas beane and others of the sort one pays high prices for in the marketa would ho he helito held to be engaged in work that was praise worth worthy y we have 01 less advocacy of cultivating 1 I vacant lots lote in hi that way and the alio idea has generally seemed to bo be approved but bu that is something tom ething wl ich could not be permitted in ill washington A N ile res of this high ity had the ho temerity to grow some dorn and other gardena t arden sass in front of his house inthe in the parking or space ce between the thel building line and the sidewalk A V vigilant police man mail with highly cultis cultivated abed ic tastes saw it and his ind indignation ignati 0 11 abat that lie forthwith arrested tile tho who sn fail forgot hini himself self and ill hauled him into court the victim who happened to be a policeman and so ought to have known batler was nevertheless trea ted with great lenity by the police judge Ns who iw refrained from castiner casting him into 1 v dunicon in iron honi lit Is merely placed lidin under HJO bonda bond snot not to repeat his heinous of rense some sollie indignant persons have declared that the firemen who aro arc cultivating vacant lots and laishl raising vegetables eatables ee 0 tables on them hareno corb right tobo to bo so than the mair who was as placed under bonds had find to vegetable yin in his own garden it might be interesting but it t ainaly would be to cite all the hi instances of unwise foolish redi culous anti and juat plain asinine baws atiles an air regulations regulation sr which govern the conduct of residents of A washington but with several baver al hundred senators and representatives not to fo speak of health officials lire firo com missioner miss loner ys school chool directo fi and oth ors supervising I 1 the Disi Diri riet rt of lol ambia lovably probably lol ably such a imitate ii tn tate t e of a affairs f id |