Show I- I T I Narcotics 1 j jA A T m-T- 4 A oJ By DR FRANK FRAN CRANE Narcotic week has hns come and gone gorie but there should be no letup In the W war r against the use of narcotics A belated sh shot t at the nefarious traffic may not riot be out of the n wa ay at this time As Richmond P p. Hobson general secretary of the In International ern Education Education Education Edu Edu- cation association says V We Wv are are assailed on three sides By fly opium with Asia as a n base by cocaine with South America and by h heroin and synthetic drugs with Europe The number of victims from from narcotics is steadily rising and the the effect effect of 01 the us use of drugs is appalling There are more than five times as many drug addicts In the world as there were slaves at one time Yet th the thO us use of drugs is t the e most abject slavery sla sla- sla- sla very very veIl More than that It lt H is to the community com com- The rhe connection n between drugs and crIme com I is only too well established Most Ios Most of or the criminals In our reformatory institutions are victims on one ny 1 ay vay r c-r r another another- of the drug habit and the use ot of stimulants of this kind render the most harmless citizen k dangerous citizen The bootlegging business shows hows us that men will riot not stop at murder to make a profit from mens men's passions pas pas- stone Beside this the taking of narcotic drugs Is a secret vice It ft Is most difficult to discover People People Peo Peo- pIe in all walks of of life the tho disreputable I and the respectable alike can become victims It would not be so bad if the victims hurt only themselves but they drag down Innocent people with them themA A man who vho takes drugs is like a man with ith a dangerous dan dangerous dan revolver or knife who vho is also craz crazy There Is no telling felling whom he may attack The problem Is ls a very difficult one because it involves Interfering with peoples people's personal tastes and what has been called their p personal rs nal liberty I But civilization is finding out that there is no such thing as personal liberty when the social fabric Is menaced People are finding out that the only way to protect themselves against potential dangers is to restrict mens men's appetites when they are abnormal The only successful way to control the narcotic traffic is nt at its source The supply of opium PlUm opium and similar drugs shou should be lImited Those hose governments which derive a revenue from the use 5 of dangerous drugs will have a i long score tn to pay y of oft ReceivIng a tax for n a thing that is in- in n t It trins F Is cally tantamount wrong Vron just JUSt to td because PeoPle Persist In using using compounding with a felony A government who keeps its hands clean of 01 this sort of 01 business should make a relentless relentless- war upon th vendors of dangerous drugs Copyright right 1927 27 McClure Newspaper r Syndicate r |