12TH GRADE

 Society'Faces the Future by Ruth Wood Gavian. Publisher: D. C. Heath and
 Company, Atlanta, 1938.
 (State Adoptcd)

 "The Menace of Propaganda", pp. 529-531


 Sportsmanlike Driving Published by American Automobile Association,
 Washington 6, D. C., 1947.
 (State Adopted)

 A. Alcohol

 1. Cause of accidents, p. 55
 2. Driving after taking, pp. 54-55
 3. Effect on reaction time, pp. 54-55, 74
 4. Impairs judgement, pp.'54-55
 5. Texts for intoxication, pp. 55-58

 The material is scientifically sound.


 Challenges to American Youth by Joseph Irvin Arnold. Publisher: Row,
 Peterson and Company, Evanston, Illinois, 1946.
 (State Adopted)

 A. Conferences, treaties and organizations, p. 476

 During its existence the League of Nations was helpful in dealing on
 a voluntary basis with many economic problems and social problems including
 traffic in opium and liquor.

 B. Mental Disease, p. 558

 C. Mental Health, pp. 566-568

 The writers of this text are to be congratulated upon'including material
 on alcohol in the chapter given to Mental Health. However, some of the
 errors common to writings about alcohol have been included, namely:

 A. "Alcohol paralyzes the white corpuscles of the blood which preserve
 health. Muscles, nerves, liver and even protoplasm are harmed by it.
 It is a narcotic that is a harmful drug. It is not merely a stimulant,"
 p. 566.

 "Other causes are the diseases of childhood, syphilis and alcoholism in
 parents--probably because syphilis and alcoholism destroy cells which
 have to do with the building of the brain," p. 558.


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