Show The Curse Salt Lake has had its agitation against the selling of n narcotics narcotics nar nar- r- r and little good was accomplished because the people of in influence in- in fi fluence erice the women's women clubs and the civic organizations which might have helped end the curse remained inactive and silent and because because because be be- cause the county attorneys attorney's office which could have made the traffic fic unpleasant sant refused to do its duty Now New York is having a similar agitation The Sun there is making p-laking some exposures exposures- that are rather s startling It dec declares es esth th that t there are more than 4 drug addicts in the United St States J THE TELEGRAM f showed th the people of this city how exten- exten si siye e th the curse has b become me here but people have g grown own so Q o accustomed accustomed accustomed tomed to letting Jetting other otner foU folks s care for their o own sufferings rings that such exposures furnish little except entertainment it seems Those who might help create sentiment against such horrible things as this dissipate their energies in other matters of le less less- s. s importance Many 1 would rather devote their time to opposing dancing than to to- abolishing the drug curse That is why reforms that are vitally important are not made too made too much of the limelight limelight limelight lime lime- light is taken up by trivial matters i During the last forty years the amount of opium imported into the United States has doubled Statistics say that between 80 and nd 90 per cent of this opium is used for illegitimate purposes While all legitimate needs could be supplied with pounds a year the average importation has been pounds annually Salt Lake has been receiving more than its share of this consign consign- ment One drug fiend after taking treatment against the habit and finding freedom at least temporarily told the editor of this paper that he was approached by three men between Third South and the THE TELEGRAM I all of them offering him dope They hey l hey knew he was a regular us user r and they were peddling it forthe for forthe forthe the agents higher up who reap enormous dividends off this vicious traffic It has gotten so bad that one of Salt Lakes Lake's greatest doctors told the writer afew days ago that he seriously believed the harm harma wasso a so it it would be better to do without the use of opium cocaine caine and morphine altogether The good could not atone for fortI forthe forthe tI the e bad he lie declared i Y Yet t when one druggist was wa caught repeatedly breaking the law the county attorneys attorney's office e allowed him to escape punishment 6 by making a blunder in a complaint and refusing to draw up a al ane l ne one The rhe only persons punished for this shameful crime have been a few ignorant ant foreigners foreigners' who had no influence to save them The rhe American drug problem is continent wide for it goes goess as s far west vest as it reaches reached east and it travels gravels almost as far north north north- i riot as quite O quite as it does south says Jeannette Ma Marks Maiks ks author of Leviathan Leviathan Lev writing for the New York Sun From Canada to Mexico l narcotis m is a disease recruiting its victims by scores of thol thousands each ch year supplying the empty ranks of those who die and rolling lip an increase in n numbers annually One tiOne of the strangest things about this destruction is the I Apparent not real real- eal innocence of its methods for destroying th thi 1 baby by has a pain give it something the factory was hot so at I noonday n have something at the soda water fountain you caught a ac I c cold take something What shall we give the baby Paregoric ot or some soothing syrup syrup say say pare paregoric J K We Ve use Blanks Blank's extracts for o our oar r puddings puddings Blank Blank has a very I IOne One fine reputation for vanilla and lemon flavoring The lemon meringue me me- pie was fine so his must be equally fine We Ve Wes s 's s send nd to the grocers grocer's grocers no no no we dont don't need to take the trouble to togo too go go o to the drug store for in America people can get opium in any anyplace anyplace anyplace place at any time except in three or four fortunate states of the union and union and we ve buy a bottle of Blanks Blank's paregoric compounded in inthe inthe the prohibition state of Maine l By By this time the baby is making a good deal of noise noise noise-no no d doubt l the noon noon lunch of doughnuts did not agree with it and it-and and we j ie anxiously n at the wrapper and read c by s Prepared BLANK CO r Manufacturing Chemists Portland LIe Me Ie Blanks Blank's Bl Pure Pire Extracts are used by some of the leading Hotels and rid d Cafes in the country from flOm whom they have the highest rec rec- I Then we shake the bottle up pour out a liberal dose of opium and alcohol f for baby and baby stops Give baby the whole bottle and it might stop forever But when baby wakes up from its drugged rugged sleep and begins to cr cry baby wants more of the incomparable a able le flavoring extract It foU follows ws therefore that baby must have m more re Now when the baby is ill it is very intelligent to dose it with i. i opium opi which makes a sla slave e out of a Ch Chinaman anian and a dee deg de- de g n e addict out of the average No North h American I J i |