Allen:

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Naismith:

Chambers:

Naismith:

Allen:

Naismith:

Allen:

Chambers:

Naismith:

Right!

Yes, and even driving in the city at 25 miles an hour, that stopping dis-
tance would be from 5 to 20 feet, and thet might mean the difference be-
tween hitting a child playing in the street and missing him.

I am in entire sympathy with these scientific tests, but can we be sure of
their findings? Suppose they enptied a bottle of beer and then filled it
with near-beer? Would not this psychological situation make these taxi
drivers think that they had drunk alcoholic beer and might not this in-
fluence their driving?

The men making these tests are after the truth, ance the truth only. They
give the sane kind of tests on several different days to the same persons.
The alcohol was always given in highly perfumed drinks, so that it could
not be tasted or smelled. On the days when the people being tested were
not to have alcohol, they were given these same perfumed drinks without the
alcohol. You see, the versons did not know whether or not their drink on
that day contained any alcohol. Even if they thought that they were drunk,
they would think the same on other days, too, so the results would be fair.

Dr. Allen, what was that story that you told our group about a scientific
test that was made concerning alcohol that some of the young boys entirely
misunderstood?

Oh, yes, Dr. Naismith, some of the very best lessons in life are always
misunderstood by a small minority. The case I mentioned was when the
school teacher endeavored to show her grade school class of tenement
dwellers the harmful effects of alcohol by using earthworms as her demon-
stration mediu. The teacher took two water classes, filling one half-full
of drinking water ené the other half-full of grain alcohol. She dropped
the earthworms in the plass of water and asked the class to observe the
experiment for 3 or 4 minutes. Nothing eventful happened. The worms con-
tinued to rove around in the water with apparently no ill effects. Then
the teacher dropped some carthworms in the glass half-filled with alcohol
and almost immediately they wrigrled but once or twice and all were dead.
A pall of silence gripred the youngsters. Then the teacher asked the
class what object lesson sny of them had learned from this class project.
Quick as a flash, bright-eyed Johnny Gillis»ie's hand shot up.

"Johnny, you tell us," said the tescher.

mWell, said Johnny, "if you keep that much alcohol in you all of the time
you won't have worms".

That is a good one, but there was one about a swimmer.

Yes, and the strange case about this woman was that she was a former
Olympic swimming champion. She was discussing with me the ouestionable
good that came out of our taking exercise to maintain our health. I[ ,
pointed out the benefits and the exhiliratine effects of the exerciss to
be followed by a bath and a good rub-dcwn.

"Yes," she interrupted, “but gin will co the same thing.”

You don't suppose that she believed that stuff? ‘Whet is the use of all
of your recreation fields and playgrmundis if that is so.

It would make a very interesting parade to line up the men who have been
abstainers from alcoholic liquors all of their lives and march them along