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...past month, Drs. Harry Reginald DeSilva of Yale and Walter Richard Miles of the National Research Council have tested over 4,000 men for Army truck-driving jobs. After noticing that the Negroes seemed to have a keener night vision, Dr. Miles picked at random seven white and eight Negro soldiers, lined them up in a field on a dark night. Then he walked to a point 100 feet away, held up a stick with a square of white cardboard on each end. The soldiers were asked whether the stick was horizontal or vertical...
Every Negro could tell; but nary a one of the whites-most of them had to get within 50 feet of the stick before they could make it out. Said Dr. DeSilva: "We never even suspected this phenomenon before. . . This may lead us to conclusions never before dreamed of. It may result in changes in our military setup on land...
...remedy the situation DeSilva proposes a driver clinic for elderly persons. He stresses stricter training and more difficult tests in automobile handling for youth...
...There is also," DeSilva states, "not much difference in the incidence of alcoholism between the man in his forties and the man in his twenties and thirties. The reason more drunken drivers in their forties are detected is that more persons drink in their forties than at any other...
...They drive more rapidly and travel farther than older drivers," says DeSilva about youth. "Having less experience and less responsibilities (there are fewer owners and less married men in the younger age group) they undoubtedly drive with less restraint and are more interested in getting places in a hurry," he continues...