| Show p What We Think 11 By Fruik Franl The record of or over two I wo hundred deaths on American highways s 's dur- dur during jug ing ng the Christmas holidays is a matter matte that should receive more considerable that merely a n passing of astonishment gasp asp such sueh as ns might bl be je given over the announcement that hat an in some seine distant part art of the world worl had set a n new lIew record for loss los of life The main reason the announce announce- announcement announcement ment of the loss of life in highway accidents should elicit more con can concern concern cern than the earthquake fatalities is that the earthquake casualties lire arc produced by ly nature and cannot be prevented hut but the accidents ite- ite ac Ie- for the most part can lun be prevented The reports from Irom some cities showed that an all alarming lerCell- lerCell percentage tage of the till accidents in these cities involving injury property damage hanage and even loss of life were caused by hy drinking and drunken drivers To date Los Angeles is the only city that has lias appeared to have the courage to do about the tho thing Unfortunately courage and good gooI resolves arc are announced as ns holding over the till New Years only After this we assume from froni the an an- announcement appearing in the dail dalI- dailies dailIes ies Ics the matter maller will lapse back hack into the lie old groove which permits drink drinkIng drinking Ing lug and drunken drivers to sit be behind hind the steering wheels of auto auto- automobiles automobiles mobiles and continue to cripple The sporadic effort being made by Los Angeles if carried out con con- conscientiously conscientiously and honestly should re reveal reveal reveal veal some facts in which the coun coun- country country try will be interested It will at nt least show how many drinking and drunken drivers presume to drive their cars through the city's crowd d crowded ed cd streets Los Angeles has announced announce a clamp down on art New Years eve and an anNew New York day da and will arrest and put in jail all pedestrians and drink drinking drinking drinkIng ing and drunken drivers apprehend apprehended ed on the streets The action of Los Angeles is prompter by the tho fact that Christ Christ- Christmas mas eve and Christmas day the traffic toll in California was 70 lives The other forty seven states contributed fatalities in the same time The amazing thing about it Jl is that hat t till the city proposes to take these thelle safety safely measures for one day dar only The assumption is that the other days iIa's of the year ear the lie drinking and drunken tini drivers may continue till the org ono oi of killing and ami crippling white while thit law la keeps its hands off tIn the councils prepare the mounting statistics and the poor helpless hll muddling jug ing public wrings Its hands hand and cries Dear Dean dear me 1111 Iii In I n m m iu opinion the record of thou thou- thousands sands killed and nial many malt more thou thou- thousands thousands sands crippled and maimed for lor life b h I drinking and ami drunken drivers is I indefensible It is a reproach and ami an III ii U indictment I inc lit against the law I a en- en enforcing forcing agencies of if the land lail and mal andI the I I n I a luti isi Ca 1 attitude ott i tude of the lie pub pub- l he lie I 1 am iiii not 1101 a 8 crank on the subject tit lit liquor but 1 know as toes dues every everyone one lie that hat I no ho one lid en CO drive ii ve a modern in automobile in ill a U city street et jus as IS it should be Ill driven dri with even so lit little tle It as out one on drink oi 01 a under Ins his lu belt helt A man dues does not need lieL-il to tobe be hits so Mi trunk drunk that he lie is sobbing over he till steering wheel to be a potential killel ki drink kink of if tine une whiskey may and atul often does docs convert u i normally sane driver into n a killer Till law la enforcement agencies should hould I rec reo recognize this fact and 1101 tIme the public should recognize it because it is tIn the truth All we l need to do in ill the matter is just J mist he honest homiest |
