To the Editor of The New York Times:

In revoking the driver's license of Herbert Disalio for impersonating Gustave Ehret, a deaf-mute, in a driving test, Chief Magistrate McAdoo, in a lecture from the bench, is quoted as saying:

“Knowing the danger to the public that this deaf and dumb man in charge of a powerful engine might be, you went before public authorities * * *”

Such a remark implies Magistrate McAdoo is under the impression that it is a crime for a deaf man to drive an automobile in the State of New York. I can cite no higher authority in refutation of this than Commissioner Charles A. Harnett of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, who knows there are scores of deaf drivers in the State.

I respectfully refer Magistrate McAdoo to the files of his own Traffic Court and challenge him to produce evidence of one deaf driver who has had his license revoked for any reason whatsoever.

The deaf have the right to drive automobiles in practically every State of the Union. The consensus of opinion among those in charge of licensing of motorists in some of the largest States is that the deaf are the most careful drivers of all.

I agree with Magistrate McAdoo that the act of Disalio was reprehensible, the more so since the deaf man himself could have taken the test legally—but with his theory of a deaf man at the wheel of a car becoming a “wild thing running at large” I disagree entirely. JOHN N. FUNK

New York, Dec. 1, 1927.