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Show by Richard J. Maughan, B.S., L.L.B. O God! that men should put an enemy In their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. Othello At the head of last week's column we quoted some lines from Thomas Tusser, to the effect ef-fect that we should play and make "erood Cheer" at Christmas time. No doubt, Tusser envisioned as a part of that good cheer several se-veral trips to the punch t ,t'- i ..? z, f if - r ' ' , - it if $ , 1 ' .! t Vi r w i . f . - - "Only a year ago during the holiday season our office was called to an accident where a man who had two previous arrests for drunken driving was involved in a head-on collision. This collision not only took his life, but also that of a five year-old boy. The mother and father of the boy are yet in the hospital, and will have the sad second straight Christmas there." "The drunk driver has caused Salt Lake County at least eleven deaths in the past year". "I'd like to make a plea to the motoring public during the holiday season, PLEASE, if you are going to drink, don't drive! Leave the car at home, call .a cab, or ride " with a friend who doesn't drink. If you care not about yourself, remember re-member the children and their parents who need each other's love at home." "Here's fishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and sane holiday." ARTHUR J. MAYS, A VETRAN ON THE CITY BENCH OF SALT LAKE CITY FOR 13 YEARS. "There has been an increase in drunken driving in the past few years. The enlargement of this problem is being met with stricter enforcement by police agencies, and heavier penalties." WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO ABOUT TIIIS PROBLEM? Well, there you have the picture.. As you can see, the enforcement agencies and the courts merit your consideration and your action. Let me leave you with another quotation from Shakespeare's "Othello." GOOD WINE IS A GOOD FAMILIAR CREATURE, IF IT BE WELL USED. If it is familiar to you don't use it in your automobile. See you next week. police problem, it accounts for a tremendous increase in accidents acci-dents as well as crime. A national survey shows that one out of five accidents involve a drinking driver." "If we are to enjoy the blessings bless-ings of super highways and three hundred horsepower automobiles auto-mobiles we must possess the will to keep ourselves physically fit to operate them." 'The serious psychological problem in the drinking driver is the fact that after one or two drinks he cannot judge his physical phys-ical capacity, the drunker he gets the more competent he feels." "The Salt Lake City Police Department now takes motion pictures of drunken drivers, and frequently those who have been arrested are amazed, after they hove seen the film, to find how drunk they really were. One prominent citizen of a nearby community commented, Tf I hadn't seen it for myself I wouldn't have believed it." GEORGE W. BECKSTEAD, SHERIFF OF SALT LAKE COUNTY FOR THE PAST ELEVEN YEARS, ACTIVE LEADER IN YOUTH PROGRAMS: PRO-GRAMS: OCCIE EVANS, A VETERAN OF FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE SHERIFF'S FORCE, CAPTAIN IN CHARGE OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. "If you drink don't drive, if you drive don't drink!" "Chemistry, science and law enforcement have found that alcohol and gasoline when mixed is more deadly than any modern gun in use today." "Experiments have proven that even one drink of beer has slowed-up the reaction time of the driver to a point where it takes him a few more feet in Which to stop his car. Adding a few more drinks to this adds many more feet to his stopping distance." Alcohol makes a person's thinking slow to react. He gets the idea that he can drive better than any one else-anyone suggesting that he let them drive,, only tends to make him the more determined to stay behind the wheel, just to show them they are wrong. This person is (riding for a serious accident, where he, his loved ones or some innocent person is doomed to die, because of his lack of sensible thinking. bowl but in Maughan Tusser's day there where no three hundred horsepower automobiles coupled with super highways with which an intoxicated driver could kill - one of his neighbors. If there had been, Tusser would likely have been one of the first to say, "If you drive don't drink, if you drink don't drive." THE DRUNKEN DRIVER This individual has increased in such numbers in recent years, has killed so many people, caused so much damage, that law makers in all the states have found it necessary to attack at-tack the problem of the drunken driver with vigorous arrest sta-1 sta-1 tutes and penalties which are more severe. The 1957 Session of the Utah Legislature over-hauled our laws in relation to the drunken driver, and provided methods by which conclusive evidence of intoxication intoxica-tion can be secured quickly, thus making conviction far more certain cer-tain than it was formerly. The Utah statute, 41-6-44.10 provides for chemical tests to be made of the breath, blood, urine, or saliva, and any person who operates a motor vehicle in the J state of Utah "shall be deemed to have given his consent to" such a chemical test. If he refuses re-fuses to submit to such a test, his license can be revoked for one year. PENALTIES The trend in recent years has been to make penalties for conviction con-viction of driving while under the influence of alcohol progressively progres-sively more severe. They now stand, under our statute, this way: If convicted of a violation of the statute one can be punished pun-ished by Imprisonment for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than $100.00 or more than $299.00, or-by both such fine and imprisonment However, if coupled with drunkenness itjis , determiined there was wanton or reckless disregard for human life or safety, one could be jailed for one year and suffer a fine of $1,000.00. OTHER ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM Your correspondent has secured se-cured statements from three prominent pro-minent law enforcement officers and a city judge for publication in this column. Their views are directed toward the problems they have forced upon them by the drunken driver- at this time of year. Listen to what they have to say, then give some thought to this problem yourself. W. CLEON SKOUSEN, CHIEF OF POLICE FOR SALT LAKE CITY, A VETERAN OF MANY YEARS OF POLICE WORK AND ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS. PRO-BLEMS. "The happiest of Christmases will be when we don't have to put anyone In jail for intemperate intemp-erate drinking. At this season drunkenness is always a serious |