Show PL AN ACCEPtED IO BAR OPIUM 1 1 fI TRAFFIC r rt t t- Program Believed Sure to i Reduce educe Harmful Harmful Use I tw of Narcotics I I I By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA G A By mall mail to United The Eress-The Eress The decision Just taken by bye t te e Swiss parliament and the Swiss rede federal al council to before the of pt the parliamentary session next June The Hague convention the control of the opium and harmful dr drugs gs traffic renders IrI virtually vir vir- certain the eventful worldwide world world- I p wide rido Ido adoption and application of ot oti i t tiie e American program for tor the suppression suppression sup sup- of ot the drug traffic This program which has be been n officially officially of ot- I adopted through the efforts 1 I of r Congressman Porter chairman oj ot the house of representatives I commission on ont foreign affairs y as the basis of ot th the league of ot nations program provides not only for the limitation of the manufacture of ot prepared opium cocaine morphine and heroin to to- the worlds world's actual medical scientific needs but a similar limitation also to the tho production pro of ot raw opium and coca leaves To render the application of ot this program possible tho the league has bas summoned two International conventions conventions conventions con con- for July of ot 1924 The Tho first of ot these will either limit or suppress suppress suppress sup sup- press entirely the production an and use of oc raw opium for smoking in Pacific countries and which Is still held as legal under The Hague con con- A SECOND CONFERENCE The Tho second conference which will win mee meet ns as soon as the above limitation limitation limitation lim lim- to the production of or raw opium has been attained will draft an international convention amongst all the tho great producing and manufacturing countries limitIng limitIng limit- limit Ing lug the production of oc the manufactured manufactured manufactured or derivative products to the worlds world's actual necessities To date the greatest obstacle to toI the above program pr or even to the I successful application of of the present present present pres pres- ent Hague convention has been the failure of ot several very Important countries to ratify and enforce the latter Of at these outsiders Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land which is not only ono one of ot the biggest drug manufacturing countries countries countries coun coun- tries but also a a. center for the un unlawful unlawful unlawful un- un lawful commerce In these drugs to I surrounding and other states to together together together to- to I gether ether with Turkey Turley and Persia as big opium growing countries have been the biggest t thorns s in t the flesh of those who are trying to control the traffic Under the treaty of Lausanne the new Turkey agreed to accept The Hague convention and to undertake its rigid enforcement PERSIA PERSIA YIELDS Persia Persia has also notified the league of nations t that at opium growing which in Persia is regarded merely as a form of ot agriculture and a means of ot livelihood will be reduced and abolished Just as fast as Western Western Western West West- ern nations help th the country to re replace replace replace re- re place it with other forms of ot agrIculture agriculture agriculture agri agrI- culture and means of ot livelihood As a consequence Switzerland remained virtually the tiro last Important Important Important I tant outsider In the worldwide effort effort ef- ef fort to limit or suppress the harmI harm harm- 1 I ful drugs rugS traffic r lc |