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Show o o Real Liberty! You can do almost anything you want to under the American conception con-ception of personal liberty just as long as your actions do not hurt others, or you don't step on their toes! In other words, and despite the liquor traffic's misrepresentations during the campaign for repeal, the American ideal of liberty gives you no right to get tanked up, climb into a car, and risk not only your own life, or those of your passengers, but the lives and property of other citizens. It gives you no right to anesthetize yourself with liquor until you perpetrate per-petrate moral or physical crime, nor to dissipate the money necessary to the lives of others, nor to wreck your own life to the point where other citizens have to pay their money to support you or to hospitalize you, according to the W. C. T. U. There is a rising clamor throughout through-out the nation against the highway deaths which result from driver or pedestrian drinking. The call is to "keep liquor out of the man, or keep man out of the automobile." The National Safety Council, disinterested dis-interested authority, estimates that one of every four fatal highway accidents ac-cidents during 1940 involved a driver driv-er or a pedestrian reported to have been drinking. The Council believes that this ratio may even underestimate under-estimate the true situation! ' Students of the situation stress the indication that the so-called moderate drinker is the danger on the highway; that the actual drunk is less likely to try to drive. A majority of Americans are sane sober folk and they now are demanding de-manding their own rights to life liberty lib-erty and the pursuit of happiness-all happiness-all of which can be wiped out in a flash by the action of an alcoholic social misfit! 0 |