Show J Barleycorn at the Wheel i w v G CALDERWOOD Sixty Eight per cent of the drivers in collisions are between 19 and 25 and 78 per cent of these have been drinking said Thomas ThomasJ J Gibbons former favorite of the prize ring and now sheriff of Ramsey county in which is located St St Paul the capital capita of Minnesota He W s r sing a group of stu- stu students students dents of traffic safe safety y and he ad- ad added added ded that regardless of age or sex se thern majority of dr ers involved in il tr ac were were under the influence of intoxicants He is sup supported supported ported in in this position by many Question including Dr S R Gerber coroner of Guya- Guya hoga hoga County Ohio of which Cl Cleveland is the dominating city ho recently published a careful statistical study which show that per cent of all traffic fatalities involving male nule drivers are had bad b c cas s that and and that drink I contributed to 55 per percent cent of all highway Ii way fatalities fatal regardless rega of oC 3 age C or sex The arresting in Mr Gib boits ons statement is that 78 per cent of 01 the younger drivers involved in fall Call in the had drink log ing classification Years ago alert traffic officers as well as scientific experts discovered that the niost dangerous driver is the theone theone one who is not obviously drunk It is the driver who to all casual or outward appearances is cold sob sober sober er having taken only a drink or two tto which had no more apparent effect titan than a glass of spring wa- wa water water ter In the laboratory it has been discovered that the narcotic effect of the alcohol had appreciably re- re reduced his judgment of distance and speed had impaired his ability to distinguish color had reduced his nervous and muscular reactions and slowed his by from from S 5 to 20 per cent Front From these obscure though vital effects youth suffers most for two physiological reasons first youth is not to the action of al- al alcohol cobol cohol Nature has had no tunit unity to develop tolerances And second the action of the drug al- al alcohol cohol is proportionate to the thc den den- density density sity of alcohol in the bod body fluids Thus within else tolerances two glasses of ofa a gi giten en alcohol strength would have the same effect on a person of pounds as three glass glasses es Cs on a person of ISO pounds So Sheriff Gibbons finds that grinning old John has hasa a hand on the wheel and anda a foot on the lie gas with 78 per cent of th the youngsters who are responsible for traffic tragedies forI I |