Show TEST FOR DRINKERS HTOO TOO 00 many persons arrested for drunken I 1 driving have hae been freed in court upon failure of the prosecution to establish their inebriated condition at the time of arrest The most recent acquittal came in the case of a driver whose car rammed that oc occupied occupied occupied oc- oc by two former police heads They caused his arrest on a charge of drunken driving but when the case came to trial they failed to appear as prosecuting witnesses What testimony was left to substantiate the charge must have been regarded as in in- in sufficient The informality which obtains in most Instances in instances instances in- in stances where so-called so evidence is gathered of drunken driving should be supplanted by some sort of common yardstick whereby the definition of drunkenness may be deter deter- mined Perhaps this may take the form of a stomach pump at the emergency hospital An old-fashioned old rule is to compel the suspected suspected suspected sus sus- driver to walk a straight line In any event court records are altogether too full of entries of dismissal of dr drunken drivers They are a menace to life and property property prop prop- erty ty and should be punished as severely as any other type of criminal The best way to bring this about is to subject them to a genuine test |