Show 1 washington 1 snapshots f step child the capital thinker uppers I 1 still refuse pub publicly icly to take the new national game of fancy pension planning seriously or to recognize the game as one of their own stepchildren step children the wave of funny money waving has them worried privately however they would all be very happy indeed indea T if the scheme were limited to hu humorous horseplay and not made serious political issues that threaten to take the thunder out of their own give em cm anything plans the idea of two california youths to hand ha td out 50 milk bottle tops every friday and make malace the mill milk bottle tops tile the national currency is very funny and safe the cap italians admit candid snapshots labor de apartment part ment exports experts are busy dratt draft ing a proposed state wage and hour law to recommend to state legislatures state wage hour laws would cover the corner grocery filling station drug store etc which are excluded from the fid federal statute strangely the model state law they ar are using to raft the one they will becom rend end is an old state law already declared unconstitutional A foreign diplomat to the united states has just had 97 cents which he paid in gas taxes refunded to him the refund was made after the diplomat had appealed to the state department on the grounds that ambassadors and s are immune to taxes he tried yet to got get refund of the hidden taxes he pays in n food and other commodity prices e s several government agencies who customarily help congressional investigating committees in digging gin up facts and figures have refused flatly to help the congressional committee investigating subversive activities of communists fascists and other ism groups in the united states ahe the capitals observers are asking why |