Show English Dope Dop e A Addicts Find New Substitute By LYLE C. C WILSON United Pr Press ss Staff Correspondent LONDON Nov 17 B By U. U P. P pov P. Pov Poverty erty stricken slaves laves of or the English slums have discovered an Inexpensive substitute for cocaine morphine and hashish I This ghastly stimulant can be obtained obtained ob oh- obI I tamed without proscription prescription and for afew afew a afew few pennies I It is spirit the hydro J hydrocarbon carbon radical of or methyl or wood al al- al I cobol cohol I Its effect is devastating with a large I An English physic physician an working class clientele In Liverpool has declared that the practise of I drinking spirit Is definitely definite definite- ly increasing Especially among the the wives paid working men men has the new evil I gained a stronghold to ft I I dc-I at ian neI In every case this physician de declared de- de nervous dis disorder dared of extreme which had come to his attention within with with- there was evidence evidence evi evi- in the last five years dence of the effect of the ug drug In each of these cases It was finally lly treated was I proved that the person spirit addicted to which in Glasgow A recent murder shocked all Britain was finally established established as the dee deed of a poor woman of her drug crazed b by the lack KILLED NEWSBOY little n new newsboy Her v victim was a his taken from whose few pennies to sufficient butchered body were provide several severa hours of madly de debauched te- te for his mur- mur Intoxication deress madness madness madness mad mad- the tho term Already police pollee ness I i finding its way 1 Into to coroners coroners' records and courts asylum reports Policemen constantly detailed Bailed to have developed handle drug cases deducing the marvelous Intuition in druff employed by the various us persons whO c come Into their eh hands It is notorious that drug takers will deny their enslavement to narcotics Even when yellowed skin trembling hands and vi violent lent fits ot of ot temper m fra and insanity plainly tell the tale of drug minds and muscles the victims vic victims vic vic- crazed admit tims tin will resolute refuse to th their Symptoms shame of addiction to the drinking of spirit are sim similar sum sum- ilar ilal to those of a cocaine fiend ncnd In both cases the drug induces tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre I I nervous energy satisfaction in mind fund and body warped thoughts p a fals' fals sense of ot ease and worst of all I I a mad lust to kill lill to butcher Murder committed by a cocaine or spirit fiend Pend is easily distinguished distinguished distinguished dis dis- dis- dis from from murder committed during ordinary anger or at the bidding bidding bidding bid bid- ding of or other drugs The drinker of spirit can and will commit almost inconceivable bru brutality on the object of its mistaken wrath tho Bestial Is no proper name for these excesses None but bitt a human mind warped clear away ay from all human decency but retaining the subtle invention of partly partIr reasoned thought though could contrive contrive con- con and complete the crimes which have haye been committed by persons addicted ad- ad addicted ad ad- d to these two drugs Morphine and hashish takers are less Inclined to acts of violence Murder Murder Murder Mur Mur- der to obtain possession of the drug they crave crave- is quite within their capabilities capa capa- but the pure lust of blood en engendered engendered engendered en- en gendered In the minds of the tho drinker t of spirit i Is s foreign to them The extent to which this evil has grown in England can be understood when it is known that there is good authority for the statement that In one particularly congested district In Liverpool no less than two women out of every ten are believed to be habitual habitual habitual habit habit- ual drinkers of spirit DRIVES WOMEN INSANE Nine Nino Ine women of every ten certified Insane are In that state because of the habit a Liverpool ph physician de de- de dared It is even even stated by reputable doctors doctors doc doe tors that children now being born in iii English Eng slum areas show signs of mental and physical taint from this vice of t their mothers Strangely enough the craze seems to be bo chiefly confined to women Men have so far far been heen content with alcohol as a stimulant Though purely monetary considerations considerations considerations are arc foremost in gaining recruits to the new drug it i la Is a fact that the Insidious practise is gaining gaming slightly in the middle middie and upper class stratas English physicians are art urging the government to immediately enact laws placing the sale of ot spirit under strict governmental control 4 |