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Show Drink, Drive, Die! Very few Americans would get into an automobile driven by a "doped up" driver. Yet, scientific leaders time and again have labeled alcohol "a dangerous poison and a narcotic." I There were 32,600 motor vehicle deaths in 1939 and the National Safe-i Safe-i ty Council, disinterested authority, I says Drinking i 7 J Drivers or Pickled " jF Pedestrians are fw-' fl vo've(J "ne 7&Ki Jlll J) out 01 iour fatal ;MMMxfJ ' xl )) accidents. That S CiPLl-jLr- wou seem to "vlfrETCZ make liquor I I beer, wine or spir- "Alcohol Plus its a factor in Gas.. 8,150 deaths. The reason, according ac-cording to authorities, Is that a drink or two puts the nerves and brain to sleep, dulling thinking, blurring vision, lessening hearing, and confusing reactions. Prof. H. L. Hollingworth of Columbia Co-lumbia University and Dr. Walter E. Miles of the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston recently made separate laboratory tests of the effects ef-fects of small quantities of alcohol which showed definite results in narcotizing nar-cotizing of nerve centers. The highway and city street death toll is the reason for a mounting demand de-mand that government "keep the drink out of the driver or keep the t,''-'r 1 driver out of the JT j FjV, It is one major SsJ&CK? reason why the 'IrK'y!! Grange in some ' Wj states has de- JM manded that no I " taverns be li- "Equals a Death censed outside Rifle" city areas. It is the reason for strong sentiment against curb service of alcoholic beverages. It is one of the strongest proofs that the public pays more than money for its relegalized liquor traffic. The W.C.T.U. reminds that the original word "narcotic" was alj most identical with the root word for "snare" and "noose". That should be something for car drivers, pasiengers, and pedestrians to think about. FACTS VS. FICTION The liquor interests have made much In recent years of their alleged al-leged efforts to put the business on a "high plane." Yet, the Chicago Daily News of March 4, 1941, said in a news story: "Efforts of the liquor liq-uor Interests to change the county zoning ordinance so they can plant saloons, roadhouses and night clubs within 500 feet of the Maine Township Town-ship High School . . . have evoked a storm of protest." A recent W.C.T.U. release recalled that "Profits and more profits, customers custom-ers and more customers are the sole objective and aim of the liquor traffic." |