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Show AUTOMOBILING AND THE BLOOD TEST "Pull over to the curb!" : "What for?" "For a blood test." "But I ain't bleedin', officer!" "You WILL be!" T This may be a afternoon dialogue in heavy auto traffic this summer. Already one state, New York, has passed a law making the alcoholic content of the blood stream admissible court evidence evi-dence in the case of alleged drunken driving. If your blood shows 15-100ths.of 1 per cent alcohol, you're pickled. And if it holds more than 5-100ths but less than 15-100ths, you're not any too sober. It has always been the custom to judge whether an automobile driver was soused or sober by his behavior, breath and monologue after the moment mo-ment of impact. But it is going to be a matter for a laboratory from now on. Once you just called a cop if some driver returning from a wedding tried to go between your front headlights, head-lights, mistaking your flivver for two bicycles. Now you call a chemist. chem-ist. Little week-end travels, Little drops of gore, Tell whicii driver's half stewed And which driver's more. The cry after each sound of ripping rip-ping fenders will be, "Quick, officer, the needle!" And arrangements may have to be made to have a chemical laboratory at every pumping pump-ing station. Aulo and the Blood Test. You may be able to tell how many times a man has been arrested for drunken driving by the needle marks on his arm. Can't you picture the scene: You are tooling along the highway when some fellow tourist tears oft your left fender. You leap out, fire in your eye and demand, "Whatzam-mattah? "Whatzam-mattah? Doncha know how to drive?" He falls out of his car, zigzags zig-zags unsteadily to your side and remarks, re-marks, "Lisshen, whoosha think thinkya talking to whaffor and what-za what-za big idea comin' oush side street sixty miles sour and nosh give no warning, huh?" Now up to 1941 you could just draw back and say, "Why, you're drunk, mister!" But not any more. You've got to get a needle and make surel e But where? Have you a needle on you? Probably not. So you yell for a cop. Here is where the catch comes in. The blood test to be legal must be taken within two hours of the collision. What chance have you of locating a cop these days inside of two hours? Of course, if the drunk is a good fellow and wants to be fair, he will give you a little of his blood voluntarily. volun-tarily. If ho is the right type auto-1st, auto-1st, he will carry a needle on him, jab his arm and let you have a few drops with a polite "Here's my blood. Just call me up and if I'm drunk, let me know. We can adjust tilings." If you, too, are a good sport you will lot him have a few drops of your blood, too. Fair is fair. INDEX TO IMPORTANCE Around the city's big hotels, A man is always gaged. Not by what he does or sells, But by the times he's paj;ed. Merrill Chileolc. HUMAN TOUCH Wherever I see a sign "Fresh Paint," I gotta feci if it is or ain't. Lee A. Cavalier. The house of representatives recently re-cently killed n bill lo have a blackout black-out test in Washington. It figured too many people down there are in the dark as it is. NO ERRORS To market, to market For U. S. Bonds new; It makes nio feel loyal . , , And pretty smart, tool "Somo day our patience will be exhausted." ex-hausted." Germany to Switzerland.' Whatl Again? I've held, since a lad, That women are sappy: They cry when they're glad, And they cry when they're happy. Richard Armour. |
