Show I L Preva Prevailing i I ing Opinions Opi n ions F Comment of the American Pr Press Press- ss An Issue Confused The Important issue in present discussion of alcoholic rehabilitation tion ought to be whether it is ne needed ded how much can be provided provided pro pro- vided and what we are going to todo 1 do about it rather than the question question question ques ques- tion of allocating a percentage of liquor license revenues to th this J purpose There are ere several fields in 1 which rehabilitation is needed for victims of excess excess' as well as in the case of liquor some due to no fault of those who suffer We have been assured that excesses in diet account for a large proportion of those persons who become charges of public hospitals with gastric cardiac or ail ail- ail ail- ments Yet it is not considered feasible to earmark any part of the inspection fees charged against dealers in sumptuary commodities There are others who b become e com e Incapacitated through vicious and unlawful as associations as as- or are bankrupted and driven into nervous collapse by gambling yet we follow no policy of allocating any part of the fines levied upon those arrested in such connection There are persons wrecked physically and financially financial financial- ly by irresponsible auto drivers yet no special earmarking of registration registration reg reg- fees or gasoline taxes is made The question of alcoholic re rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation re- re habilitation is in a distinct field and It does deserve tion It is unfortunate to lose the main thread in the mazes of ways and means San Francisco Chronicle Auto Men Hopeful After Arter an experience of If some days surveying the scene at Detroit De De- troit and other automotive manufacturing manufacturing man man- centers center Bert PIerce Fierce i the automobile editor of the NewYork New Nev NewYork York Tribune Herald-Tribune is convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced there are reasons for The makers of motor cars have havea a fairly cheerful view Program to cut the used car stocks i is ma mak making ing headway and congestion fn n that market is being reli relieved ved i Already says this authority there are indications of an upswing upswing upswing up up- swing in buying and it is be believed lie lie- liev d that if the public is as assured assured its its- as- as of more settled business conditions there will be a general manifestation of buying power The automotive industry looks to the spring to supply sales As it has been a leader before in moving the country out of ot doldrums doldrums dol dol- do- do drums drums- It may do again But It does l look ok for an assurance of more settled conditions and looks looks' to Washington Washington Oakland Oakland Tribune When a B Boycott Kicks Back ack San Francisco which has been permitting unions to boycott nonunion nonunion nonunion non non- union agricultural products now faces a boycott by farmers who who who say if the situation Is not reme remedied remedied died they will be forced to had trad trade elsewhere Since San Francisco relies fo foa fo- fo r ra a good deal of its business the trade of the surrounding ru rural l areas areas as as every city must the tle tIfe farmers may get some action Boycotts of any kind are VICi S In principle and do more ha ham m than good but that threatened by the farmers comes as near be being ng justified as any boycott c co cold Id The farmers did not invite this his situation and have made eve every effort effort ef- ef fort to avoid it it is difficult t to blame them for retaliation hen that Is their last reso resort 4 Los LOI Ang l Times f Science Lends a Hand Science and the law appear at last to be catching up with the drunken driver If chemical tests of blood and breath recently devised were uniformly uniformly uniformly uni uni- adopted by police and es established established established es- es in courtroom practice one of the biggest loopholes by which offenders escape due punishment pun pun- iS iship lit ht be be plugged Tests ests devised by Dr Sidney S Se lesnick t of of f Boston Booton prove t that at i intoxication begins when the subjects subject's sub sub- jets jet's blood contains as little aso as o tenth one of 1 per cent of and id d that at a concentration of cent the imbiber imbibers half one of 1 per M s completely drunk I Blood tests for alcohol are simIe sim- sim Jp fole le Ie and accurate They offer positive posItive proof of intoxication and f unlike f-unlike unlike psychological and reaction reaction reaction tion tests tests require require no cooperation on the part of the suspect Even simpler is the breath tester devised by Dr R. R N. N Harger Harger Harger Har- Har ger and now being employed by bythe bythe bythe the Indiana state police Principle Principle pie behind Dr Hargers Harger's mechanism mechanism mechanism ism is the fact that one ounce r rf cf f the patients patient's blood will contain as much alcohol as 2000 ounces of his breath Moreover the air a aman aman aman man breathes out can be collected and analyzed without his pennis- pennis sion Zion Both these tests have received the cachet of the American Medical Medi cal association in its official pub pub- They should be promptly adopted adopt adopt- ed as routine pc pr 1 practice and recognized legal in all suspected cases of drunken ing The law can and must accept the proffered aid of science in ending this menace of the high high- ways Danville Commercial News z j c f 1 4 |