| Show — AiiUmHmI i v i t u I ii 4 ! ST0P1 In hn of diubilitlM poor vision tomporomont ago When Should Youj N Give Up Driving? By W Director W DAUER of Health MD Education American Medical Association A doctor names four reasons for quitting the wheel Do any of them apply to you? Driving an automobile has come to be regarded as a right something like the right to vote Actually it is a privilege properly given only to those who are capable of driving a car with safety to themselves and others For various reasons all of us at one time or another are dangerous behind the wheel The conscientious individual mindful of his duties to his fellow men should voluntarily refrain from claiming the privilege of driving in such circumstances Of course the individual should not drive after consuming alcoholic beverages within a space of time which would damage his driving ability This varies with the quantity of alcohol which has been taken: roughly you should wait at least an hour after one drink and much longer if more drinks have been consumed Less well known is the fact that some drugs especially the antihista-minioften used by victims also impair and judgment or cause drowsiness cs hay-fev- i er 1 Are yeu physically fit? Certain physical disabilities should motivate the conscientious person to stop driving Many but not all persons with heart disease diabetes epilepsy or other disabling illnesses should put themselves in the category The mere fact of a heart attack how non-driv- er ever if there has been full recovery is no bar to driving Neither is diabetes nor epilepsy when seizures are few and preceded by adequate warning Such drivers should whenever possible avoid congested traffic If forced streams of into them they should remain in the e slower-movin- g lanes at the edge where warning of illness will enable them to get out of the way The person with a badly damaged ed fast-movi- “brittle" diabetic heart or the line between who lives on a razor-thi- n too much and too little insulin Should obviously not drive cars Neither should the epileptic with frequent severe and unpredictable seizures 2 Hew well de yeu see? Drivers with poor vision will add to public safety if they refrain from driving automobiles ed Excessive nearsightedness night blindness and “tunnel vision" which cuts down sight except straight ahead are particularly dangerous Persons with sight only in one eye often have difficulty judging distance and perspective and tend to be unsafe drivers Controversy rages around the quespersons tion of whether should or should not drive They claim because they ire undistracted by conversation —— Continued on next page Low cost Corktone Kentile gives floors new luxury look Here’s the distinguished look of fine cork flooring in America’s favorite floor tile Styrene-fortifie- d Corktone Kentile does wonders for rooms checkerboard effects — whether installed in traditional randonystyle shades making a luxurious expanse of one or with any of 4 cork-lik-e look seems to hide soil subtle color on your floors Its smart and footprints stays longer gleams with easy no-rguarantee at your waxings See Corktone Kentile with its long-we- ar Kentile Dealer’s He’s listed under hooks in your Classified Phone Bopk cork-textu- clean-looki- tM mnu me M IHWI ROOONITN re ub ng IINr-RCNT- IK UNCORK RRHRORMR UNfLCl RBRFLOft RCRROTM hard-of-heari- COM aoRliy bwtaU your own T Corktono Kcntllo la aa avoraca rxHT room for a littlo aa gUIJ KmUU colorful MarbUited KruCUo — Corktone KontUo 39 y — V |
