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Show But the man isn't living who can operate an automobile as carefully when drunk as when sober. Our courts all over the country are making it plain that the public pub-lic demands protection from drunken auto drivers, and they are showing no mercy to the drivers who display signs of intoxication when arrested usually after they have damaged other machines or injured innocent people on the streets or highways. And it's a good thing. We have no desire to argue the prohibition question here, but we do join with every good citizen in this land in demanding that if a man must drink that he stay away from a steering wheel while he is doing it. DRUNKEN DRIVERS Most of us can look back to other days when it pas possible for a man with a few drinks of liquor under his belt to steer the fath-f fath-f ill old family horse to and from town without endangering to any ;;reat f;xtent his own life or the lives of other. But it is different now, though we regret to say there are still a few who appear not to have realized it. We may differ on the merits of the Eighteenth Amendment, v;: rn;iy favor it or oppose it. But on one point we are all agreed, nd that is that the tightening up on liqour drinking came at the opportune op-portune time so far as human life is concerned. If there had been ;vi many autos back. in the days when whinkcy drinking was at its l'i:;!il!i in this country there woudn't have been cemeteries enough l' hold the dead. For if there arc two tilings that won't mix, those two tilings are booze and gasoline. Driving: a horse while intoxicated intoxicat-ed in no great feat, because a horse has a. measure of intelligence. |
