BEER DRINKING A MENACE.
(Mr Daniel A. Poling.) Science has demonstrated, first in the laboratories of Germany and laa*r in the university and private laboratories of our own country, that one dram of alcohol, the* equivalent of one drink of whisky, may so effect the eye that the power to distinguish colours is lost, the ability to distinguish red being first destroyed. One drink of whisky taken by an engineer before going out on his run may plunge a train into an open switch! And engineers have testified truthfully that they saw no red light when it was conclusively proven that the signal was set against them-
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 247, 18 January 1916, Page 5
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107BEER DRINKING A MENACE. White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 247, 18 January 1916, Page 5
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