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Show It Doesn't Fit ' In Michigan, a fourth offender gets a life sentence, being caught in possession of $2,000,000 worth of narcotics, gets a sentence of eleven years. Cruel and unusual punishment for the little fellow ; wholly inadequate punishment for the big fellow. . There must be a reversal of the policy in dealing with such offenders, if there is ever to be satisfactory control of either illicit liquor or drugs. It is the big criminals who should get the heaviest sentences. The fellow who peddles liquor by the pint is of no consequence compared to the head of a narcotic ring in the business of ruining lives by the thousands: thou-sands: So long as millions are to be made in such traffic, there will be scoundrels in it. There will be much more hope for enforcement, when the punishment is made to fit the crime and when that punishment is applied to those who make the big profits from law violation. ., Within the past forty years, the increase of the drug habit in the United States has been astounding. That sort of a conflagration is not to be subdued with a garden hose. When it. is considered that the narcotics arc, practically, all imported, it would seem that life sentences would fit the big importers, |