The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-17
CAPITAL CITY
TO BE MODEL
FOR AUT0LAWS
Official Will Strive To See
All Regulations Are
Enforced
BY CHARLES =. STEWART
NEA Service Writer

Washington, April Washing
toms new traffic director. NJ. o. Ed
ridge. aims to make the capital
model for the whole country in the
natter of automobile regulation.
His theory is that drunken driv-
ers. fleeing bootleggers and miscci-
laneous morons arc responsible TOR
most accidents It's in whlzzing
around corners that they generai'y
get in their work. he says. Also nc
thinks there has been too strong
tendency on the authorities part TO
subordinate pedestrians safety 10
motorists convenience. Eldrlhge IS
going to fix all this. And no more
spooning at the wheel OF car, ne
adds. "Nobody," he insists. can
drive judiciously with his arm
around girls waist
Finally, Eldridge concludes. traf-
fic regulations, no matter how good,
arc no good at all unless rigidly en-
forced. and right there, he observes.
is where the majority Of cities fall
down. He won't.
The Justice Department gets very
few appeals to be sent to the Atlanta
penitentiary for rs years. That
however, is just what Gerald Chap
man wants, and in his case it's easy
to understand why. He insists that
the federal government only loaned
him to Connecticut to try him for
murder, and he thinks borrowed
article should be returned in as good
condition as it was borrowed in. Be
sides, if he's hanged, how can he
serve out his long Atlanta sentence
for robbing the mails?
The Justice Department hasn't
made up its mind. 3,
The fact is. the attorney general
isn't as much interested in Chap
mans technicality as Chapman is.
The government has more prisoners
than it wants now. At this very time
Luther c. White, new superintendent
{ Of federal prisons, is at Leavenworth,
| trying to find an excuse for parollng
all the convicts he can. Leaven-
worth has more than twice as many
inmates as it was built to hold. At,
lanta isn't quite that bad, but bad
enough. So much accommodation
] wasn't needed in the old days. Pro-
] hibton law violations hadn't been
invented then.
Z. Smallpox is more prevalent than
the government Public Health Service
likes Not only are there too many
eases but they are increasingly ma
/, lignant.
The idea is that people develop
! cons iderablc power of resisting q
disease they have had among then
for several generations, and either
don't catch it or have it lightly il
thew do. Thus the disease FINAL,
runs itself out. Only it isn't dead
just dormant. Reawakened. it us
ually finds generation which ha
lost the old immunity, and begin
again as a much worse disease thai
it left Off
Just so with smallpox. It partl
ran itself out and was partly STAMP
ed out by vaccination. Now that !
appears to be reasserting itself,
NAV prove to be deadlier than eve
though fortunately under better con
troll.
Keep vaccinated. is the Publ
Health Services advice.
The State Department is hearn
from many American residents q
France who are scared at the PRO:
have large French property holding
especially the branches Of varior
big American companies.
A capital levy, if made. will h
them all. They can't get their wealt
out of the country. either. Presei
French laws forbid. The govern
ment proposes to take large chur
10 PER cent. and it will be MOI
than that IL the franc slumps, ;
probably it will.
If France were a little countr
like one of the Central American r
publics, the State Department mie
see It's way clear to opposing tn
confiscation. Being France, it isr
likely to do so.