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Show Washington Comment Apropos of congress, it may not be amiss to mention how five senators sena-tors last week learned wi.h some embarrassment that a $20,000,000 item they had been arui.-.g about with some heat and a good deal of time, had already been approved by the senate. And were their faces red! Seems Senator Vanden-berg Vanden-berg objected to a bill increasing the capital of the disaster loan corporation from $20,000,000 to 540,000,000. Nobody was paying much attention, because such a small sum (under the New Deal) is just "chicken feed". But Senator Sena-tor Wagner defended the increase because it was to salvage timber in the New England hurricane area. Senators McNary, Barkley, and King of Utah, jumped into the fray. It was then that a clerk announced an-nounced the senate hail approved the increase earlier in the day by '; agreeing to house amendments to legislation extending the life ot the R. F. C. The lamentable rise in Washington's Washing-ton's traffic fatalities which involved in-volved death and accident in a number of congressional families had its inevitable effect. Washington Wash-ington officials have gone "traffic "traf-fic conscious" in a big w-ay, and on March 10 our new law goes into action, where jaywalkers will be arrested and fined. Meanwhile, our downtown areas are infested with traffic cops whose duty it is to ride hard on recalcitrant pedestrians. pedes-trians. Until the deadline, on March 10, all a gallant, officer can do is wave a heedless jaywalker . back to the curb, and at evidence of resistance, say politely: "Madam, "Ma-dam, may I escort you to safety?", simuUiueously offering a blue-cl.d arm to return her to h.ase. If the lady doesn't take the hint then, well even the cops are helpless! But not after March 10! The "sad news" will be a fine of from $1 to $300. Meanwhile, Washington's pedestrians teeter ' on curbstones, cast wrathy glances at The Law, and mill around like-a like-a flock of sheep at the barnyard gate. We've even got the Boy Scouts helping out! Incidentally, the mail carriers are the bitterest complainers they claim the traffic traf-fic ' control shoots their delivery schedules to pieces. j M |