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Show Lack of Sleep Termed Harmful as Too Many Cocktails CHICAGO. Lack of sleep can produce the same symptoms as drinking one too many cocktails, declares J. P. Fanning who, as secretary sec-retary and general manager of National Association of Bedding Manufacturers, has studied sleeping from every angle. "There ought to be a law against staying awake too long," he insists. Persons who think sleep is a waste ol time are as dangerous as those who never want to stop drinking. Fanning warns. Sleeplessness, he adds, slows their reactions and makes it unsafe for them to drive automobiles. "Anyone who feels sleepy ought to try walking a white chalk line," he says. "They might actually be drunk, even without liquor." Fanning declares he has scientific proof that sleeplessness is as harmful harm-ful as drunkenness. A group of sci entists, he says, got 35 men "roaring "roar-ing drunk" by keeping them awake four days, after which they were as irresponsible as alcoholics. The sleep advocate says Hitler probably never would have torn the world apart "if he had gone to bed instead of staying up all night arguing in beer parlors." "Napoleon also was a shunner of sleep, and look what happened to him," he adds. ' |