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Show f WASHINGTON Sk 1 ! AND SMALL 4i-rJ (business lidiHl Who's Smoking Opium, Now? It was the late President States upon another new, cost-Roosevelt cost-Roosevelt who first used the ly and unending program to name of Shangri La to denote halt the production of opium, a mythical locale. The answer is swift and cer- tain punishment with drastic And while he never, accord- penalties for those who smug- ing to the best of records, got e'e and sell narcotics in this around to pinpointing the ex- country, whether the raw ma-act ma-act location of this exotic place, 'erial originates in Turkey, or it is possible he may have been Red China, referring to Washington, D.C. i "Here, once again, is the sap- Congressman H. R. Gross of hoa,ed move to solve another Iowa as a very special realist Problem simply by opening the is not a seeker of Shangri Las, ,dorB to V S- Treasury, but apparently he wonders at Whf" w'1 those in Pwer learn times if he is not in one. He hat tak,es morf than money reports the following: tolsolf, the Problems that be" set us "It is almost impossible to be- It ,s to be h d lhat the !1CVL bl. ? word circulating alarm sounded b the Iowa m Washington that the U.S. Congressman wln sufflce to nip Government is giving serious thJs scheme , the bui consideration to paying Turkish farmers not to produce opium After all the American tax. poppies. payer has paid billions to get farmers not to plant wheat, "This deal, designed to cut or not to plant cotton, down on the supply of narcotics being imported to this country But this would be mere pin would cost U.S. taxpayers mil- money if these taxpayers were lions of dollars to compensate assessed to pay all over the Turkish farmers alone, and world for not raising opium. Turkey is not the only country that grows, or is capable of The idea, to be sure, is plenty growing opium poppies. weird. "The answer to this problem On the other hand, nothing is Is not to embark the United too weird for Washington. National Federation of Independent Buslnesi |