Madrid newspapers blame years of "Red rule" for destroying habits of discipline, but it must be said that the jaywalker has some excuse. The natural thing is to cut right across numerous plazas, rather than walk a considerable distance to a crossing. Moreover, traffic signals are not synchronized and the pedestrian sees no reason to wait for a green light when the street is clear. theirs. Parking on the wrong side of otl Individualistic motorists are also gettin
norn-blowing, ignoring one-way signals or red lights, turning around in the middle of a block, driving on the left side of a centre line—all were flourishing recently; now they are almost no more. The fines are only 10 to 15 pesetas, but the crowd that gathers to hear the dressing-down hurts more. And a new danger is the motorcycle police, lurking under cover of night.
Naturally there is scarcely a policeman who does not hear, "But do you know who I am?" irom morning till evening. So far justice has been even-handed, however, and a general was 30 pleased AM he was fined despite his rank that he wrote a letter s to the papers But "hard-boiled" taxi drivers remind one that there have been many campaigns like this in years past and that everything will be "all rigħt once this enthusiasm has quieted down." Anyway, it is a noble experiment, If it succeeds there are grounds for believing that rigid control of everything from the price of potatoes to plans for one's new house and the whole ambitious scheme for a totalitarian, self-sufü- cient, aggressive modern State will become a permanent feature of the Spanish scene,
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