Show 4 I The Dope Traffic I S Sy By y DR FRANK FRANK CRANE The bootleg business existed before the traffic and the liquor traffic Is just one ot of Us Its branches When you get to the gist of It bootlegging h s the willingness and desire ot of men to make money out of the misfortunes of their fellows Covered up asit ns as It may be that Is the gist bf the liquor business ss and nd ot of all bootlegging It Is also seen lIeen In dope pP peddling It may seeni strange that there are human creatures who fatten upon making makini physical and moral wrecks of oC theIr fellows whose business Js is the deterioration bf be hu- hu manit But an any business ss In which there Is money will find followers even it If It be the lave traffic and andy y u wIll find intellectual people who arc re willing to defend It As a matter ot of fact Dr Percy Phillips made the declaration the other day that the worlds world's drug factories factories fac- fac tories are producing approximately times the amount o of narcotic drugs required for tor medicinal pur- pur poses The busIness ot of dope smuggling exists all along Americas America's sea coast and boundaries Because there is so much money and profit In it the government Is almost powerless to deal with it This Is very closely to crime As Dr Phillips S says s Ok l big percentage ot of all ll crimes ganst Gods God's and natures nature's laws as welt well ns as against those special cod codes s promulgated by our oWn state for oUr comfort and protection are traceable to th the use ot of narcotics Dope Is ever every crimes crime's right h band n 1 There Is no question but that if we could stop the trade In Illegal narcotics crime would be mate mate- diminished The only onty effectual way to do this Is for tor the nations na- na to agree together not to permit th the manufacture ture or of drugs tending to ard habit forming Only by cutting out the supply can the evil be limited It Is profitable to attempt to do something Some Some- thIng with the addicts and the best thing that can be done for them Is to treat them not as criminals but n as diseased persons and nd Isolate them In sOme someway w way y on a narcotic farm where they will receive hose hos l pital care and work treatment Is one of the most important questions of all the Iss issues es that confront mankind at the present time The Th taking or of drugs Is a source o of Insanity and It Is the business o of organized d society somehow to try to grapple with It CoP Copyright 1 1929 McClure Newspaper Syndicate A. A |