Show Newspapers And nd Drunken Driving 0 Problem Newspapers mold public opinion ion on on faster than any other Otiler agency agent lod ind should be enlisted in the campaign to end drunken driving sav 1 r W V A Gabrielson Honolulu nolice chief in a paper read at the recent National Safety Congress Con ress It is reliably estimated that has drunken driving has at least doub- doub Id 11 sine th repeal of prohibition Today Toda it is one of the principal causes of motor accidents Sur Sur- Sur- Sur veys carried on in various states indicate n that liquor is a factor in 10 to 20 per cent of all accidents involving a fatality or a major in- in iun In Tn the words of th rif f t the California State Highway High Co Con Control the drunken driving evil continues to grow unabated unabated unabated- Intoxicating liquor is playing too great reat a part in the mount mount- mounting ing death toll toil The alcohol mixed with gaso- gaso S line gasoline problem must be attacked from a number of angles In many communities police and ing prosecuting authorities are arc more or less indifferent to it and are arc too orone crone to let Jet tile the th use of ofa a little pull re re- re duce reduce a serious drunken n driving charge char e While proven scientific methods for establishing whether or not a person is legally intoxicated ed are known they the have not heen been widely adopted with the tIle result that tha t many ca CI cp r are arc taken tak l to court without sufficient evidence to justify a conviction Vor t of nil a large part of the public tacitly condones drunken driving bv hy to demand and impartial laws Jaws and m i in n- n to detect and punish it I I Newspapers N can perform a great public service by ly emphasizing ng the evil iI how bow all allor r or f f us its are po Ol- Ol victims of ofa a drunken mo mo- mo motorist by hy r on a 3 com cam olin oli n for in local law Jaw enforcement Alcohol at the wheel kills thousands of Americans each var var and and injures tens t ns of thou thou- sands It must be b i stopped st |