Elderly drivers need restrictions
Regarding the Sept. 23 article “SUV barrels through bakery,” this is not the first and is not going to be the last accident of this kind in our city. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but we hear about deadly accidents so frequently these days.
The Department of Motor Vehicles should reconsider driver’s license testing standards; moreover, we have to keep in mind that driving restrictions should not be applied only for youngsters, but also for elderly people.
The DMV needs to apply restrictions on issuing driver’s licenses to older residents because they also have high accident rates. I think if we have certain requirements that test a driver’s abilities to drive safely, we can have a safer city with a lower rate of car accidents.
ANGINEH MERDROUSIANS
Glendale
Prayers can work for the faithful
In his Oct. 3 letter, “Two little words are all you need,” Dave Enslow asserts that school prayer doesn’t make any sense because there has to be somebody on the other end of the line to hear your thoughts.
Christians, including myself, would be the first to admit to Enslow that our prayers do not always and everywhere produce tangible results. But sometimes they do, and the only conclusion to draw from that is that somebody is on the other end of the line.
Many cures of physical infirmities have taken place at Lourdes, France, to name but one site. But to this day there is no scientific or medical explanation for those cures.
And I would hasten to add that those cures have been attested to even by non-Christian and nonreligious physicians.
BILL LOUGHLIN
Glendale
18th Amendment worked eventually
Dan Kimber’s reference (“Examining rights from new angles,” Oct. 2) to the 18th Amendment, saying it “did not despite its objective, decrease consumption of alcohol,” jumped out at me because after the passage of the Volstead Act in 1920, the use of alcohol dropped precipitously, along with reports of drowning, suicide and spousal abuse.
The law was very effective in decreasing the consumption of alcohol until it was repealed in 1933.
Technically, he is correct because the rates of alcohol consumption per person did recover to pre-18th Amendment levels, but it took until the 1960s and a lot of advertising.
SHELDON HAASE
Glendale
Parents must wake up to drug dangers
