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Jail the Drunken Driver.

What are we going to do with the drunken drivers of motor vehicles? We refer the question to the legislature now in session. But here is what Judge House of the traffic court of New York city, after much experience and study, says he is going to do with them:

"The objective of this court will be to reduce immediately by 25 per cent the number of persons driving automobiles while intoxicated. No sentences of less than sixty days in the workhouse will be given, and sentences will be increased to the limit, six months, if necessary. This court has been too lenient with this class of violations."

Of all the violators of law the drunken driver deserves the least sympathy. He is a menace to any community when he gets tanked up on the popskull poison of present days and goes out upon the highways to seek whom he can devour. His stimulant gives him "courage and he takes all kinds of chances. The limit of the car's speed is the rate at which he travels. The entire road belongs to him and all others must make way for his passage. No hectic king of olden days was more haughty than he. He not only jeopardizes the life of himself and his companions but also the life of every living soul upon the public highway where he travels in high revelry. from the tiny tot just able to walk to the old and infirm man. Herod, in famous murderer of babies, was not more guilty than the drunken driver who goes out upon his wild debauch and does to death beneath his car an innocent child of some loving mother's heart.

It may be that a law providing a jail sentences without alternative of a money fine for those convicted of driving a car while intoxicated would prove the most effective method to check the menace. No method is too severe to prevent the death of innocent people-Greenville News.