Show STEWARD STAR WASHINGTON LETTER LETTER WILL SILT ST E IVE TO SEE SEK REGU- REGU I LATIONS ENFORCED Br nr CHARLES P NE XE Writer W WASHINGTON Washington's new traffic director M 0 O Eld r redge I d alma alms to make the capitala capital II a model for tor the whole country In Inthe inthe lithe the matt matter r ot of automobile r regula- regula gula- gula lion llon Ills His th theory ory Is le that drunken drivers Cr rs CI fleeing bootleggers bootle g rs r and mis- mis ous morons moron are responsible ble for tor most accidents Its It's In whizzing whIning around corners that they get got In their work he be h hi pays MYS i nys Also he thinks there has been too strong a II tendency on the authorities s part to subordinate I motorIsts nate nalo pedestrians safety to motor motor- motorists convenience Eldredge Eld r Is go ing to fix Ix all aU this And no more spoonIng at the he wheel 1 Of o a car he carlie add adds Nobody he InsIsts can drive Judiciously with his hie arm around B a 1 girls girl's waist Finally Eldredge concludes traffic regulations no matter how hov good are no good at all unless rigidly enforced and right there he observes Is le where a majority of titles cities tall fall down He wont won't The Justice e department gets lIets very few app appeals a to lo be bo s sent nt to t the Atlanta p penitentiary for tor or 2 26 y years ars That however Is Just lust what Gerald Chapman wants want and In hIs hie c case cas s It Its It's easy euy to understand why He Insists that the f federal 4 ral I government nt only loaned d him to Connecticut to try him for tor mur- mur murder murder murd der r and he thinks a 8 borrowed article should be r returned In tn all as asgood good condition as 1 It was borrow borrowed d dIn In Besides It h hes he's s 's hanged how can he s serve out his hie hi long Atlanta sentence for robbing the mall malls mails The Justice department nt hunt haen t made up Its mind The tact fact t Is the Attorney pon- pon genera oral r l Isn't as much Interested In technicality as II Chap Chap- Chapman Chapman man Is The gov government has haa more Inore prisoners prisoner than It wants now At this v very ry time Luther C White new superintendent ot of federal prisons Is at Jav Leavenworth trying to find an excuse for parol- parol parolIng Ing all the convicts he can Leav- Leav Leavenworth L av has hat more than twice AS amany many inmates Inmate as It was built to hold Atlanta Isn't quite thAt bad but bad enough So much wasn't ne needed ded In Inthe inthe lithe the old day days Prohibition law lai violators tors hadn't b been en invented then Smallpox Is la more moro prevalent than the government public service Ice likes Not only Not only are there too to I II I many cases but buC they are increasIngly as- as malignant The Idea Is Js that people develop considerable power ot of resisting relating a disease th they y have had fad among amon amon them tor for several generations generation and aai either dont don't catch It or have o It lightly It if they do Thus the dl- dl dia ease case finally runs Itself out Only It Isn't dead lust jut dormant Reawakened Re- Re Reawakened awakened It usually finds a gen gen- genn ten which has lost the old Im- Im Immunity and b begins bIna Ina again as a 11 much worse disease than It left leftoff off Just so with smallpox It Il partly ran Itself out and was part part- partly ly Iy stamped tamped out by vaccinatIon I Now that It appears to 10 be re- re reI reasserting rel asserting tte Itself lt It may prove provo to be hi I deadlier than ever though thou for tor- torI under belt better belter r control I Keep vaccinated t d Is la the public h health alth s services service's advice I ITile j The Tile state department nt Is la hear bear h bearIng Ing Ing from many maDY American resi- resi residents r resi dents of France who are aro scared at at the prospect of or a n capital levy Some of them have large French I property holdings especially the th branches of ot arlous alous big bl a aA s A capital Invy lovy If It made will lilt tut get t them all They cant can't wealth out of ot the country 1 Pres Present nt French laws forbid Th T government proposes os s to take A large 10 chunk 10 per pcr cent and II will be more than that thaI If It the franc frani- ran slumps lump lump lumpas as probably It will w I It If France were a little coun coun- country country try like ilkI on one of the Central Amerl Ameri American I Ican can r republics the state stale depart depart- department department lO ment nt might see eee Its lis way cl clear ar to opposing thIs his confiscation D Being france It Isn't likely to do so I co 00 |