The word “parallel” as applied to
parking seems to be a very elastic,
certainly not a geometric, term.
FLIGHTS thl
ATIONAL i
CAPITAL
Of the million letters which An
nually pour Into the local post
office practically every one is ad
dressed in the following style:
Mr. John Tf. Smith,
1475 Columbia Road,
Washington, D. C.
Those who employ that form do
not blunder, for the letters are in
variably delivered. The form is
technically incorrect, however.
If you would be technically cor
rect, address your letters:
Mr. John H. Smith,
1475 Columbia Road,
District of Columbia.
Under the law, there is no
Washington. The city planned
and mapped .out by the first presi
dent and the Celtic architect,
L’Enfant, disappeared with the en
actment of the law extending the
boundaries of the old city and es
tablishing the District of Colum
bia.
There are other laws, it is some
times alleged, which are generally
ignored. There are others still
which are honored solely in the
breach.
That which eliminated the city
of Washington is of the latter cat
egory. It has another distinction.
It will be permanently disregarded
though never repealed.
It requires ,no statute to make
this capital city a living entity. It
is enshrined in the hearts of all
the people.
The passage of the District of
Columbia bill, eliminating Wash
ington, is an example not neces
sarily of tho stupidity of congress,
but of the carelessness of con
gress.
No member, assured of the ex
tinction of Washington by the en
actment of the bill, would have
supported it. No member would
have dared face the storm the peo
ple, once awakened, would have
precipitated. ^
But the members slept and the
people slept. And the law is on
the books.
