Show 00 Stew St l t r J I 1 I WASHINGTON DWELLER IS BEDEVILLED BY LAWS By CHARLES P STEWART N NEA EA Service Writer Writ r WASHINGTON Jan IS The U Th way th Washington citizenry Is III bedevilled by government Is la one on sin In and nd two I shame The Th two district commissIoners commissioner commissioner the th third or engineer er commissioner himself only with technical mater matera for Cor which thank providence providence- providence rule like twin czars Whatever they y atsy at goes toes at least It does doc for tor tora foran an a bile Later the th courts often knock It out I The Th frequency with which this hap hap- happens happens hap happens pens Is III significant of ot the th regimes regime's The Th commissioners slap Iap on som some om new r w regulation and Its It's law until somebody employ employs counsel coun and spends I a lot of money putting up II a fight Then as s likely 1 as not It transpires that the th whole hole thing thine was Illegal all along Iong Those Thos who suffered Buttered rd under It In the meantime simply are ar out of ot luck The Th rule rul subjecting pedestrIans ns to arrest arret for auto traffic code cod viola lola violation violations tion tlona was ras a recent sam sample le Traffic Director Eldridge wanted anted It and persuaded perua 1 d Commissioners Ru- Ru Rudolph Ru Rudolph dolph and Fenning F to Issue the th de de- de decree d cre cree The Th police polio dropped every everything thins else to go after pedestrians Trying to cross II a street was II equivalent to a 1 pinch Obey Obey- Inc ing In the traffic officers signals was to Invite being run over for the th cops are TV re too Ius nu hU y with pedestrians to with auto autos an and 1 they ran Inn wild To 10 disregard them was to land In jail I After several everal days of t this with arrests one on of oC the Jaywalkers ap- ap appealed ap appealed pea pealed led from the th traffic court to a ahl hl er tribunal which promptly de- de de declared dared the entire performance an out out- outrage outrage rate cut rage and ordered It stopped topped There Ther was one on while a few years a ago 30 when wh hen n It literally wasn't safe sare sat to sit lit down for a 0 social card Rums game In our own parlor In the capital The Th commissioners were trying to suppress gambling and nd If It th the police to peck through a window and saw something they thought thou looted ed like It they rAided the place That spasm pm passed In due season hen hen somebody with Influence was Interfered with and raised a roar I Then the commissioners took a awhirl awhirl awhirl IThen whirl at bringing mashers to hook book Police Folice Lieutenant Mina Van Winkle turned a squad of n attractive young policewomen pol loose looking as s flirta flirtatious a as they knew ho how boa but itman If it a aman man mn addressed ed one on of them m If It only to ask ak his way y to the postoffice postoffice- wham ho he h landed In jail I i Finally Mina not got tired of It and the commissioners commissioner had forgotten all stout the th crusade by then so now V Washington's streets tr ets are comparatively safe sat for tor the th unattended d male One of the scandal scandals of the last It pair of commissioners administration WI was the police vice vie squad tearing round around town after Information for tor the divorce court work only for private detectives iVes and dirty work even oven for Cor i them To their th lr credit Commissioners Ru- Ru RudOlph Ru Rudolph dolph and Penning F abolished the vice I ITo quad sq lad Jut Hut what's hat th the use u T Something ot of the kind Is going point on here her all 11 the time |