Abstract

Notes by the Way

The article presents some notes on Washington. The contrast between perpendicular, "longitudinal" New York and widespreading Washington is constant. It was greatly intensified by the experience of being plunged from March into May within four hours. Washington has had a run-away season. The author feels Washington must always seem a little foreign anyway, even to its natives, if only because it is so specialized, it is government made manifest and all pervading in massive tangible stone. Somewhere behind the screen of pastel smokes is a unfinished war and an unconstructed peace. It is just as well to be reminded now and again, however, that bureaucracy is not peculiar to government. Business and industry and education have known it a long time.