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SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1938

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The Indianapolis Times

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1338

THE ROCKY ROAD TO PEACE FTER Prime Minister Chamberlain had signed the new Anglo-German peace agreement with Der Fuehrer yesterday at Munich, he told correspondents: “I have always had in mind that if we could find peace Czechoslovak question, a way might be open to

appeasement in Europe.”

He indicated that he expects Europe's mobilized armies | MESO always had made 1 pals thet Tiely.

of that soon specific steps would be taken toward a general

the land. sea and air quickly to return to normal, and |

European settlement. That is genuinely hopeful news.

Jyvnam min

In our overwh sympathy and admiration for the | ittle state of Czechoslovakia, many of us are inclined | to want to have our apple of peace and eat it, too. | ent in the United States probably is 99 per cent | engaging in war. We believe in arbitration and | onciliation of international disputes. Instead of settling | them on the battlefield, we settled the “Alabama case” | that way, and the dangerous Bering Sea controversy. Amer- | icans were foremost in setting up the Permanent Court of | Arbitration at The Hague, the Covenant of the League of | Nations. the World Court, the Kellogg Pact and the NinePower Treaty. All call for the pacific settlement of contro- | versies between nations. And we have negotiated many | separate arbitration treaties with various countries. Despite our outraged feelings over what happened to Czechoslovakia, therefore, the settlement was distinctly in line with what the American people have advocated. Those who demand arbitration of disputes must be prepared to see arbitration go against their desires at times. The only way a country can always be sure of getting what 1t wants, racardless of what the other country wants, is to maintain yigger and better war machine and be ready to use it | rop of a hat. = = = = = = OR much the same reasons of sentiment, we venture to predict that the appeasement of Europe apparently | soon to be set in motion by Mr. Chamberlain will not meet with the entire approval of American public opinion. Already Mr. Chamberlain has signed a “declaration of peace” with Nazi Germany. The chances are that he will follow this up by completing the Anglo-Italian entente bagun a year ago but which has been held up by widespread opposition at home and by events in Spain. Next | we may see a rapprochement between Italy and France and | between France and Germany—in short the realization of | something like the four power pact of appeasement originally broached by Sig. Mussolini and seconded by the late Ramsay MacDonald when he was the Labor Premier of Britain. England and France will almost certainly be accused of supping with the devil But there again, we in this country must make up our minds what kind of a world | set-up we want. If we were willing to back a powerful collective security system in the guise of a society of nations strong enough to frighten would-be aggressors into behaving themselves. that might insure world peace. But as we are not willing to back such an arrangement, one of two things is going to happen. Either the major countries, ourselves excepted, are going to return 10 the old balance of power | system, and arm against one another until the inevitable | day of catastrophe, or the potential enemies, prompted by mutual fear, will agree to live and let live. Which is what Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini may now have in mind. If that is the way the wind blows, we on this side of | the Atlantic will hardly have room to criticize. Having helped to kill collective security, we cannot reasonably com-

plain if Europe resorts to other means to keep out of war.

If by some such scheme as this Mr. Chamberlain and the others can avoid conflict, achieve arms limitation, give the | peoples of the world a breathing spell and, by so doing, put people back to work and start trade flowing again, it may | not be the ideal way of doing it—but for want of something

better we hope they succeed.

FORTUNATE NEW YORK

IS nonpartisan zeal for smashing rackets and curbing

crime has made Thomas E. Dewey the Republican candidate for Governor of New York. His party drafted him

5 its one outstanding vote-getter.

| Dodecanese Islands.

| Kansas, California and Texas. | tained that Wall Street and Park Avenue can grow

| money to do this? |

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

| What Would Il Duce, the Declared

Pro He ls in War, Have to Offer His People for Fighting Just Now?

EW YORK, Oct. 1.—Will Rogers used to Say that this country couldn't go to war just now because we haven't got a slogan. And for all Mus- | solini’s talk of going tc war for Germany, he finds

| himself in a similar fix | shadow of a grievance or a cause to offer the Italian people. There are nc Sudeten Italians, and all the Italians who once clamored for anschluss with Italy were rescued after 1918 Nobody has been bending the Italian frontiers

anywhere, and, indeed. the object of the alteration or correction of frontiers should be particularly touch- | ing to Italians in view of the fact that ther | frontiers now inclose territory which, in any readjustment consistent with the principles which the Duce recently flung at Czechoslovakia, would be | ceded back to the rightful owners. Both the Duce | and Hitler have conspicuously avoided mention of the Germans under Mussolini in the captured Tyrol, and Mussolimm has had nothing to say about his | captured Jugoslavs and his captive Greeks in the

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in war. has renounced her amateur standing. His main complaint against Britain and France has been that they gvpped Italy of her fair share of

| the purse for the last World War, and he was again

frankly professional when he went into Ethiopia. In the World War the spirit of the Italian people was

| nourished on the cause of their persecuted brothers

in the lost provinces, and for the Ethiopian campaign they were fattened up on promises of milk and honey with a tasty side dish of vindication for a humiliating

| licking at Adowa.

It was noticed that when the Duce sent his invincible legions to Spain to fight a people for whom they had no racial, traditional or even neighborly grudge they were not able to arouse the proper spirit. Indeed. the invincible legions came to be spoken of as the invisible legions, and all because Mussolini had neglected the first essential of war. He didn’t give his invincible legions anything to be sore about.

HE Spaniards were not tampering with Italy’s frontiers. There were no persecuted Italians in Spain. And, out of political delicacy, the Duce didn’t dare tell them they were fighting for a piece of Spain, because that would have turned even the Spanish Rebels against them. So, altogether, what he did was drop a lot of ordinary week-end militia into a real war where they had neither a grievance nor a motive, with results which are too well known to the world for their own pride or the Duce’. Now. Mussolini has been on the point of asking the whole Italian people to jump into a much greater

war on the same tasteless terms to help a race of people whom they hate in their hearts and crush a |

people whose condition in life is almost exactly the same as their own. In all the things that appeal to the sympathy of the Italian people—misfortune, suffering and poverty —Czechoslovakia is rich. The Nazis are rich in all the

and excursions of tourists along the axis, a feeling of haired on the Italian side and contempt on the side of the Germans. As an outright, declared professional in war Mus-

solini has taught the Italians to fight for gate re- | | ceipts, but in this contest he hasn't even been guar- | anteed their transportation and meals.

Business By John T. Flynn Another Prosperity Plan . . . This

One From an Economics Professor. |

FW YORK. Oct. 1—It is a popular notion, par- | ticularly in sophisticated New York, that all the |

crack-pot ideas spout and flourish in places like Jowa, I have long main-

as rich a crop of crack-pot schemes as any soil in the country. But one does not look for as large a harvest in the halls of a great Fastern university.

But now Dr. Paul H. Nystrom, Columbia Univer-

sity marketing professor, has a plan. There 1s a sort J notion that because a man is a professional economist he knows how the economic system works. But society has an economic anatomy just as a human being has. The marketing economist ought to know the anatomy of the economic system,

son that few economics courses attempt to deal with this. Hence it does not follow that marketing econ-

omists may not utter ideas as impractical as the next |

fellow when he deals with the international mechanisms of the capitalist system. Dr. Nystrom wants the Government to buy all the unsold surpluses off the shelves of the merchants so that the merchants will start ordering more goods from the manufacturers. This will start business up again and bring back prosperity.

The Merchant Won't Object

It is only a short time ago that the marketing economists thought the Government should buy the unsold surpluses of the garment manufacturers. The

| Government has been doing this, but somehow it

hasn't worked out so well because the surpluses have <till remained on the shelves of the retail merchants who haven't been ordering from the manufacturers. Now Dr Nystrom wants to buy the surpluses of the retailers. The Government buys up the surplus crops of farmers to keep prices up. If the Government does this for farmers, then why not for garment manufacturers? If it does it for garment

| manufacturers, then why not for retail merchants? | There is, of course, no reason which a merchant can

think up, but an economist ought to be able to think up some very excellent ones. First. where is the Government to get all the Dr. Nystrom has the answer From the same place, | for the PWA. ment to borrow more billions. The Government Owes nearly 40 billion dollars now, more in fact—but what of it? says the doctor. What's another couple of | pillion when w® owe so much. It is an incredible proposition. One wonders where it will end.

His splendid record for six years in the Governor's |

office has made Herbert H. Lehman the Democratic nominee

for a fourth consecutive term. His party drafted him, per- | S

uading him to sacrifice his ambition for a seat in the U. S. Senate, because it recognized its urgent need for a strong candidate against Mr. Dewey.

The Republicans paid a big political tribute to Mr. |

Dewey. His activities for the party have not been conspicu-

ous. him so widely popular. If elected, he will leave the District

Attorney's office in New York County, to which he was |

chosen only last year. And despite his youth—he is 364 he may be the Republican candidate for President in 1940.

And the Democrats paid a big political tribute to GovHe has been independent enough of his |

ernor Lehman. party to differ publicly with the New Deal on such issues

as budget-balancing and court-packing. But the party had to acknowledge its need of him, for he has earned his state's respect as a true liberal and an administrator of great ability. Too often, in too many states, campaigns prove to be contests in which the people feel that it makes little difference which candidate wins, both being regarded as poor material. This year the people of New York State are rarely fortunate. They can hardly make a mistake in selecting their next Governor, for their choice is between two exceptionally good men. +

It was his activity as a public prosecutor that made |

A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

| “J EARN to discourage gossip” is the admirable | admonition given to clubwomen by one of their { leaders. I hate being a wet blanket, but writing that sentence was just wasting ink. Not that we don’t all | subscribe to the sentiment in public. We know very well. to hear us tell it, that there's nothing so wicked as a malicious tongue and that isn't nice to talk | about our neighbor's affairs. But we all do it and we all like 1t. Going on the theory that truth 1s better than a lie. I wish to say out loud that gossip is one of the | pleasantest things in life. Don't get me wrong, please. I'm not advocating the spreading of untrue or malicious tales that will harm other people's reputations. But so long as people and what they do are the most interesting items in a world that is literally bursting with fascinating topics, we'll talk about them. We can't leave the men out of this indictment either. I believe they are more expert gossipers than women, because they use better finesse. All of them relish the thrill of peddling a fresh story. If you don’t believe this, try asking your husband if he has heard the news about Mr. and Mrs. A. Sure thing he has. He knows every detail. Bill Smith told him at the barbershop last Tuesday. So don't be fooled by their sanctimonious attitude. Also, we've built up a fine theory which lets us enjoy the pastime without feeling wicked. Talebearing about prominent people is always permissible, although we frown on news about the neighbors. Women who wouldn't lend their tongues to local people’s business will repeat the most outrageous stories about thg Roosevelt family, for example, and think nothing of it. Funny folks, aren't we?

Sudeten Problem !—By Talbu

Mussolini hasn't even the |

things that are vile to the nature of the Italians, | in addition to which there exists, in spite of parades |

| employment on a public works pro-

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SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1938

Gen. Johnson Says—

He Wouldn't Be in Too Much of a Hurry to Pass Out Civic Wreaths For the Pact on Czechoslovakia.

EW YORK, Oct. 1.—There 1s a lot of the drowne ing-man-and-straw stuff in the world’s relief because pretty boy Adolf was willing to take his | finger off the trigger for 15 seconds and call his fellow mobster, Mussolini, to decide whether Czechoslovakia | should be hijacked by shooting her full of machine- | gun slugs or merely by cracking her over the head | with a black-jack and taking all. In either case, the result is the same. It is a

| disgraceful one—far more shameful than the various partitions of Poland. It would be a swell idea. in these heated moe ments, to reserve judgment before passing out civic wreaths to Mr. Chamberlain—or to any other principal actors in this affair. The verdict of history might make that look like the acme of buffoonery.

= = = HE idea of a Czechoslovakian republic first saw the light of day in Pittsburgh, Pa, U. S. A. It was backed by the then President of the United States with all the influence of America. It was readily accepted by England and France because it helped silence the realists who said that the only way to keep the peace of Europe was to march to Berlin and dismember the German empire into its ancient constituent states—without impossible reparations or reprisals. French and British diplomats had a fancier scheme. They wanted to set up stooge states, bound to France by military alliances which should ring Germany with a wall of steel. It was solely for French and British protection, and especially that of France. Czechoslovakia may have been Woodrow Wilson's conception, but she was emphatically the baby of France. For nearly 20 years, primarily France, and also England, had the benefit of the effective loyalty of the nation they had created, and whose life. in cere tain circumstances, France had guaranteed

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will | defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

But that nation was nothing without the ime | memorial military bastion of the Sudeten mountains | and the combination of raw materials and industrial | facilities that made it strong. = = = | HEN the Nazi storm suddenly broke, they | dropped their child and ally. Their efforts

| were not made to sustain her, only to press her ta give up the essentials of her existence with no such

a DEFENSE OF THE WORKERS ALLIANCE [By Arthur Scott A recent Times editorial referred to the Workers Alliance and stated

| there are Communists in that organization, | Being a charter member of the | Workers Alliance and a member of its local executive board, may I say officially in behalf of that orgamzation that the Workers Alliance 1s formed of WPA workers and of all those who want to secure for them- | selves and their families, and for all who may need it, the benefits of

(Times readers are invited to express their these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

views in

have them “protect.” perhaps realized that they selves created a country in : I0- | violation of human desires for libgram, or of adequate direct relief,!erty, freedom, and shall or - pes! social security. a | “self-determination”? e realize that these can won only by organizing and becoming] Who would have thought Engaffiliated with the organized labor movement. That is why we join the | Chamberlain? Yes, who Workers Alliance of America. We have? A man branded Judas Ishave no other interests. Workers] tok se of hii st heroic ef join our organization irrespective of cariot because ol nis mo or - | politics, religion or race. The Dies Committee and other re- | ‘actionary agencies have attacked of civilization. A Judas Iscariot the Workers Alliance. But we have who preferred to face the ridicule grown while under attack and have of the thoughtless to the knowledge | enjoyed a 50 per cent | the last eight months. Today the uy, its people as well as the peo- { third annual convention of the ple of other countries who might | Workers Alliance is in session in have been plunged into war. If Mr. Chamberlain is a Judas,

Cleveland with 400 delegates from| | 45 states. [then I say let’s get about 120 million

| liance stands for and democracy ment. Both W.0

peace, for unity tries. in the labor move- | I'm

| Or iom Green and John! N

not defending Hitler.

real victories and gains for the un- | employed. |

| s = = , : protecting his countrymen.

the whole thing is just another show of one man’s lust for power.

A WPA WORKER GIVES | HIS SIDE OF THINGS

By Times Reader | t th fh 1 det i ‘ His motives were those oO umility I am writ 'f or : | writing a few lines in answer 4 jove for humanity.

'to the slurs that have been made world needs plenty of both these |about WPA workers leaning on troubled days.

shovels. I work on the WPA. It wl |not any fault of mine. People can | write all they want to but they THE OLD MAN AHEAD | never say anything about people] By DOROTHEA ALLANSON | leaning on soup bucket handles back | ’ {in Hoover days. I wish they oad] Te, od i i

| say something about that once in a He has your eyes, your nose out Fon » YOU THIS READER

| while.

Many people don't want the poor-' And like you he acts, and thinks |er class to have anything but a, and talks.

| bucket of soup and a loaf of stale whether he hates you or loves you

| bread. President Roosevelt knows Respects or despises the things you!

| better. All I wish is that he would| do |run a third term. He would not Depends on you.

| only carry 46 states but 48 the next For you made him, and he is you.

| time. He is the only President that Era has been for the laboring class. DAILY THOUGHT | " «2 =n [THIS READER PLEADS NOT the hand of the wicked, out of the

| By C. W. Harrison man.—Psalms 71:4.

Poor little | vou say, deserted by your allies. Al-| lies, though, who preferred to con-| helper is omnipotent.—Jeremy Taycede a little to prevent the holocaust! lor.

| of a war that would haye destroyed | the very lives and land you would might reach the proportions where | Allies who | they should want to shoot a strang- | them- jer across the trench from them. direct | But I cannot understand how any- | {one could conceive such a monwe say |strous attitude of mind that they

| wumps.

THINKING HOW SATAN LAUGHS By Mrs. G. M.

world has worked

one another.

| seen before.

| would be willing to

plane and drop bombs on innocent : : : noncombatants—helpless old people, land had a Judas Iscariot in Mr. ‘woman and children, who can not would | possibly defend themselves. How Satan must love the man | {who can drop bombs on a city and |how delightedly Satan must laugh fort to save the lives of millions of when that same man is considered

| men, perhaps the very foundation |& hero! I, for one, would refuse to

je such a hero.

= {HERE'S THE QUESTION: growth during that he had betrayed his own coun- WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT?

By P.P VY. Anent purged,”

“the

[that question. It

en aie rire : aziism. Either is distasteful to|like this. Among the Democrats are | im mind of any man who loves some demagogs, who thought them- | : V freedom and liberty. I'm not defend- | selves to be demigods, and this ing Hitler's movement against the | prompted Senator Hill of New York | | Czechs. Maybe he really believes he's|to ask that question. Maybe never was answered.

In those good

| and Louisiana, and

incredible state of mind where men consider it heroic to maim and kill | I suppose there are) persons who could find a justifiable reason in their own minds for Kkill-| ing someone whom they had never

We will grant that their hatred

purge that was] my grandson | “Pop, what is a Democrat?”

rr evke 1¢ : ’ A say ii Members of the Workers Alliance like him to, repopulate this country | pers of Do i ae re

| do not want to stay on relief one with—and encorage the breeding of recall the circumstances. it day longer than necessary. The Al- cthers like him in the foreign coun-'jave been way back about Grover |

[Cleveland's time when I first heard |

resistance as would raise their technical treaty or moral obligations to join that resistance On the peace formula now being considered. the remaining Czechoslovakia will not be, as some have

The time has come again (and said, an empty shell of a nation She will be 2 de= tragically soon) when a part of the shelled nation—as helpless as a shucked oyster on a

itself into that; cake of ice, and just about as productive. The British and French effort was not to prevent this, but to compel it; not to accept the responsibility they had undertaken in creating this nation, but to avoid it. As Mr. Arthur Krock has pointed out in the ablesk comment on this development, it was not Mr. Roosevelt’s suggestion that stopped an immediate clash of arms, since it was Mr. Chamberlain's and not the President’s that was followed. But as Mr. Krock also showed, Mr. Roosevelt may live to thank his lucky lucky stars, because this incident may go down in history as the cruellest betrayal since Juda’s kiss of Caiaphas. -

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Did Hitler's Door Look Like One From Which Peace Might Come?

EW YORK, Oct. 1.—Anybody who attempts te write newspaper comment on world affairs while history proceeds at its present breakneck pace must risk the chance of being inaccurate and grossly unfair. But, after all, no day-by-day columnist makes any pretense of thinking of himself as a historian, One tries to catch, if he can, some semblance of a pattern in the turning and twisting of events. I am beginning to have a strong feeling that certain men and women in progressive groups may qualify as major prophets. Indeed, I have listened to several American newspaper writers, well-informed in foreign affairs, who charted out with a high degree of accuracy the recent weeks. 1 heard several foreign correspondents predict, a long time ago, that Adolf Hitler's intention was to isolate Russia by bringing about a four-power pact, with Germany, Italy, England and France as the allies. Indeed, Hitler has made open overtures for | such a setup, but public opinion in England and old Le] France was not sufficiently favorable for any such Democrats. | alliance to be made deliberately and in the open ; id These tactics have changed. Now the pressure is being put on in a different form. Hitler, in effect, is saying to the Western democracies, “Join me in The price of peace

go up in an air- |

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asks me, |

must

was something |

I believe it |

| an alliance or meet me In a war. a bunch of oii is fraternization with fascism.”

And, son, it begins to look

|as though a lot of those old duffers Hero or a Hamlet had been reincarnated, and I don't

mean maybe so. still good, What is

a = YES’ MEN IRK

By A. W. M. I

am a Grover Cleveland Demo- |

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Thomas men!

ters were supreme.

he tells us, as it gets the money | NOT " u { Pa Pe Ee ne watts the Govern: [TO DENOUNCE CHAMBERLAIN! hand of the unrighteous and cruel [Jorn I ai amuse!

Democrat. I also

Czechoslovakia, you | FT is impossible for that man to am not a New Dealer. I despair who remembers that his against any candidate, Democrat | {or Republican, that is for the New| ea

Your question is

I, like he, insist that a public | ffice 1s a public trust. Deal does not believe that a public | office is a public trust. {Deal believes in “Ves” men! Jefferson and Andrew Jackson did not believe in “Yes” They believed Deliver me, O my God, out of (rights of the states in state mat-

Now, some will say that there 1s no compromise a Democrat? | whatsoever which should not be accepted to estab ¥ | lish peace or even to stave oft war for a little while, That is hardly the question. Time will tell whether the acceptance of Hitler's world leadership is the path to peace. For my own part I believe it is the most | certain course to war. Again, people who have criticized Chamberlain severely are asked to remember that if he sacrificed dignity in his flight to Hitler's summer home he did it to save the lives of millions. His dignity is not the issue. If Chamberlain could avert war he would be | justified in camping at any doorstep out of which peace might proceed. But did that voice which roared over the radio from the Berlin Sports Palace sound like the voice of one intent upon bringing reason back to earth? I believe as did | No one could listen to the tragically tired voice of | chamberlain in his report to the empire without being moved. But it also seemed to me that few could fail to note the ineffectuality of his words and, indeed. of his entire personality. To be sure, history may call him a hero, but I believe 1t 1s more likely to identify him as a British Hamlet who was, by all the circumstances of his background, rendered inept

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of the best predictions that we|your own intelligence test. First, have. On the wholef. is as goodjyou inherit to a considerable extent o_o

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

MIND

' the same abilities

brothers and sisters and, you have probably developed much | the same habits of study and of

life. u EJ

THE SIMON-PURE extravert not only waits until he gets to! the bridge before he crosses it, but | hardly notices it is a bridge. If the introvert is going to buy a car, he either pays cash or else knows exactly where the money is coming

The extravert who has enough for the first installment lets the agent worry about the balance. I imagine most insurance is bought by intraverts. At least loan your money to an introvert if you want to see its color again.

from.

long as he looks at the same way he

his outlook since

A STUDY of this was made by a psychologist, and he concluded that it is only when one changes his attitudes that he becomes a changed person.

person and if he has not changed

still in all essentials mentally and emotionally a child,

for the situation into which he was thrust.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE relation between drinking and motor aceldents has long been recognized. Unquestionably ‘alcohol impairs judgment and physical abilities. The driving of a motor car demands quick thinke ing, accurate judgment, and co-ordinated action be= tween eyes, ears, and the muscles of the body. Recently members of the Northwestern Traffic | safety Institute made a special study of the place of | the drinking driver in the present-day accident problem. They tried to answer the questions of how much more likely is the drinking to be involved in an accident than the sober driver, and what percentage of accidents are chiefly due to alcohol. In the course of their study they made chemical tests of the blood, the urine, and the breath of drivers of motor cars and determined the amount of alcohol present under various conditions. Studies of drivers were made over a period of threes years. Twelve per cent of all drivers on the road wera found to have been drinking, and 2 per cent had been drinking so much that their blood contained 1 per cent of alcohol to a thousand parts of blood. One driver in every 250 had been drinking to such an extent that his blood contained 1'2 parts of alcohol to a thousand parts of blood. Figures show that 47 per cent of drivers involved in personal injury accidents had been drinking, and

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part of alcohol to a thousand parts of blood. Studies were also made as to the time of day in which various accidents occurred. Figures showed that the highest percentage of accidents caused by drinking drivers occur in the early morning hours and over the week-end,

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