Evening star., 1933-02-11
Higgh Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

@APE TIMES, Cape Town.-A
clause in the new municipal
traffic regulations approved by
~ the administrator by q notice
in the Gazette prohibits pedes-
trians from crossing streets by other
than the most direct route available.
Within the city area ''cross-walks"
will be made and pedestrians crossing
the road will have to keep within such
boundaries.
At certain points pedestrian control
signals will be erected and red lights
or stop" signals viii regulate pedes-
trian traffic.
The new regulations will provide 125
stop streets" Most Of them abut on
to the main roads through the southern
suburbs.
These will be marked by a warning
sign and the driver of any vehicle
affected by the regulations will be COM
PEELED to stop at or behind the stop"
line and will not be allowed to proceed
until the way Is clear.
The observance Of trafdc lines and
control signals also will be enforced.
At any intersection where traffic
control signals are operating, illumt-
mated green arrows are to be erected.
These will indicate the direction in
which turn can be made.
Foreign Benefits Doubted
In U. S. Dry Change.
La Suisse, Geneya.-It is confirmed
at Washington that despite the past
and continued resistance of President
Hoover, one of the first tasks Of the
new American Congress will be to
modify the present prohibition laws.
Foreign countries. however. which see
in these procedures any advantages
accruing to them, particularly If they
are viticultural nations, are extremely
likely to be very much disillusioned
and disappointed. For, II Americans
set themselves again to the business Of
drinking, there is no doubt that they
will drink only American wine. Vine
growers in California are already max
ing their arrangements in view Of this
modification, and are commencing a
campaign in favor Of legislative per-
mission to drink the beverages which
they themselves are in 50 preferred a
position both to produce and distribute
to every quarter Of the land.
The larger cities, it Is thought, will
constitute the principal markets for
L1elr beverages. fISIlb IlOW tilcy are
importuning all the members of Con-
gress to forbid the sale, in the event
Of modification, not only Of all foreign
wines, but also of all foreign beers. The
grape farmers of California demand
nothing less than an absolute ban upon
all drinks of European origin. This
elimination can be made complete by
making custom duties SO high that no
foreign wines, and especially no wines
from France, Italy, Germany or Spain,
will ever again be able to compete in
American markets with the native
product, no matter how great their
intrinsic superiority.
With every other form Of industry
at a standstiIl in the United States,
with the exception, perhaps, of the
tobacco business, though that Is opera
ting on much smaller margins OF profit
than at any other period In recent years,
the winners are possessed with the
conviction that they, at any rate, may
be able to improve their own affairs,
and by some stroke Of luck escape the
otherwise general disaster. They have
no objection, of course, to selling their
wines abroad. but it Is more likely
foreign customers, their own oppor-
tunities for sale denied, will retaliate