| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER If 1930 theVortds Wickedest This Week: Secrets of the Luxurious Hideaways Where Men From Bankers to College Boys Woo the Deadly Poppy c v?£ Io o ii r OPIUM VAMPIRE Sat Up n Luxurious Apartment By tha Drug Ring' lhata Beautiful Mysterious Harpies Allura College Students and Sucb Woman Ara Behind Many Blackmail v MASTER OF DOPE ta tba Powerful Facial Characteristics and Mesmeric Eyas of i J 4 y v :of 4 If- v-- -1 V' Aleister Crowley Mystic British Poet and Casas and Breach sf Promise Suits Demonolog ist Who Experimented with Hasheesh Without Becoming Enslaved Bruce Grant author of this senes of articles exposing the modern drug trsffic is a bnlhsnt and versatile journalist who has made a penetrating study of his theme Other installments of his expose will be printed here from week to week ‘r£ vampires" Set up their luxurious in dens by the king pins of the drug ring are the lure for men of prominence intellect social slandinng and w ealth The apartments of these women are the limbos of lost men and more than o ‘‘amnesia victim" has one By BBUCE C PLANT the police fHE modern history of devil lore been corralled there by and friends while relatives frantic In America is written around the 'hurried abtfut to hush up the opium poppy It ia the goal of tortured imagina- scandal The “opium vampire" ia the tions it sinks its claws into the very soul it deadens the salutary pain that “stooge” (drug peddler) deluxe Close behind her in lugubrious procession man needs as a spur to come the trafficking doctor the unIt crawls across the borders wvwMmflhp well-to-d- over sea and land through schools and colleges in and out of public institu- - scrupulous druggist the ordinary walk “crimp" and last — and BFFORE-1 Wall-Know- u -- 4 f side- most " of all — the vicious vendor of drugs to little school children at the soda fountain across the candy counter around the corner from the public These school latter ensnare their innocent victims and then set them up as passers of dope to their classmates giving them as pay a "deck" or two of their 0' poisons That there are hundreds perhaps thousands of infant drug addicts in America is but one of the startling phases of the narcotic evil today Sara Graham-Mulhaformerly First Deputy of the Commissioner Narcotic Drug Control of New York State ll says L T OUT OF THE BACKYARD Plucking tbo Ltmi from Marihuana Plant (Mexican "Loco Weed”) Preparatory to Rolling Tbam Addiction Mey Into Cigarette Form Drive the Victimi Mad tions and private homes— it even the cradle itself! Playng the stellar role in this great drama of the poppy is the "opium vampire” — pretty damtj smartly gowned mysterious She is an allura background of col-- 1 ing figure aguin-- t and ffas1 y restaurant go night club activities at the smart dance'' tne driving her opera the raves alwavs ctims into a wdi woven from the — black Mm ke threads of opium Of all the drug scouts plugger- fur the s'ren sang of dopr the pi 't dargerous perhaps art these “opium Home-Grow- n “Frequently I am called oil the telephone by physicians w ho consult me aa to the proper morphine doce for a baby addict In our snort experience we registered £6 in fant addicts When our narcotic control was discontinued we had on ouf 800 expov tanUmother addicts regi-te- r which medical experts insist means 800 babes almost certain to be given di ugs " I’arents who at first notice ari unusual air of maturity and worldly wisdom about their school child sometimes force themfor the selves to make allowance strang nes of a new generation Put later th v are horrified to learn that the result of tf’e sudden precocity addiction — that the peddler has secret1 twelve-year-ol- d I ly tieir beloved one to the use of narcot cs These cases are more numerous than one imagines The horror of this ad AND AFTER Camara Study of tha Late Julia Brun Actreaa Above Show Hor After Sbe Had Sbaboa OR tha Shackle ef Drug Addiction Balowt In a Despairing Mood Whon Hor Fortunaa Ware at Their Ebb and She Craved Cocaina Daparataly candle burns brightalarmed at the figures of the manuest just before it facture of morphine and other danflickets out gerous drugs “The amount of morphine in use is Many of the “opium vampires” come from the ranks of hoapital far in excess of the amount required workers and trained nurses and even for legitimate purposes" he said “However China Is not to be found from the training achools for nursns Propinquity to the drug causes the on the list of countries producing mordownfall of many who while those in phine but she has suffered more thaq any other country so far as the contraining are recrulitod after the manner of the college girl sumption of morphine is concerned The unscrupulous men of the drug Since China has prohibited the smugring find as their most valuable tools gling of opium by law her people have actresses both on the legitimate stage takerv to the far more harmful drug and screen who have fallen slaves to An injection of morphia U morphia These women ara elabornarcotics entirely absorbed by the whole body ately snared into association with the and is about one hundred times more harmful than a pipe of opium drug vendors with the utmost patience These charming and attractive scouts “An opium smoker can live No a are then used as lures to capture rich normal number of years but a person men or the sons of wealthy parents addicted to the morphine habit dies and they are behind many blackmail It seems after two or three years cases and breach of promise suits to me that the morphine-producinSometimes these beautiful vampires countries are competing with ono anlearn too much for the ease of mind other owing to the fact that the busiof the higher-up- s They are then put ness is a very profitable one although out of the way by a simple overdose the profits go only to the smugglers of morphine-- a convenient method as and a few manufacturers The govno trace of the drug is usually found ernments of these countries gam very at an autopy But many times when little revenue from licenses but lose their beauty fades they take this overa great deal in prestige and reputadose themselves I cannot understand why civil- tion The “opium vampire" does not conized nations can allow such a scanfine herself to “plugging" opium or dalous state of affairs to continue units derivatives — heroin and morphine checked" — or to cocaine She finds sometimes Judging by the labels on narcotics that the simpler forms of addiction seized m China during the past few smoking marihuana the Mexican “loco years the International Anti Opium weed’’ or even sniffing ether are good Association estimates that Japan has as starters because invariably the adthirteen Germany five Great Britain dict will look for something with a two Switzerland three Frame one stronger kick and the United States six manufacOpium smoking is said by certain turers of drugThe association admedical authorities to be the least mits that these figures may not ue harmful form of addiction One who correct lor instance Japan claims dors eight hours a day of manual labor to have but four factories will not seriously suffer they contend The association believes however But smoking leads to morphine addicthat “at the worst" there cannot be tion and morphine to heroin more than thirty drug factories in the Paradoxically morphine was first inworld and therefore the manufacture troduced into China as a cure for the of drugs should not be difficult to heroin And was opium smoking habit! control brought to America from Germany to While opium smoking is spreading cure the morphine habit! Needless to as a vice in America the Chinese even say a sniff of heroin the most potent in this country are gradually disconof narcotics will take one off of mer-phin- e tinuing it The Chinese tongs long linked with the smuggling of opium in no time While opium smoking is giving way into this country have gone into the to the addiction to manufactured drugs more lucrative business of narcotic in China the custom of smoking is transportation — that is those tongs of common in the United unscrupulous character ( quite Chinese tong leaders have long States C hina in trying to shake off frowned on opium the age-ol- d rooking among yoke of opium addiction their members Especially among the finds herself swamped with narcotic boo how dov or hired avasms of drugM the tong Two of the greate-- t hati (haoH'in Chu Chinese repreGout hing Duck and Hong Ah sentative on the Opium Advisory ComKay would not employ a killer who mittee of the League of Nations rea addicted to opium amqking cently expressed himself as "most ad diction among school children is not yet fully realized American authorities say so aly is its system so secretive are its youthful slaves so passive to spiritual development are the great majority of mothers and fathers and so fearful are these latter of the stigma of court proceedings Continuing into the higher educag ono finds in coltion in leges what is known aa "experimental addiction" Here boys and girls students of classroom psychology where instructors urge the recording of personal sensations band together se cretly to taste for themselves the morg later to bid titillation of their another to one feelings report and emotions whild under the influence of narcotics But alas it takes but ten days more or less to become a slave of opium and so the student soon finds himself or henelf a narcotic addict Suicides of college students in the last year which are on the Increase are very often traced to drug addiction While the "opium vampire" is one of the chirf causes of the college boy’s fall into addiction it is from the tanks of the college girl that many of these sirens are recruited The college girl g with her mentality her arts of decep and feminine her pride tipn is r1mlv involved in such obvious scandal as is the college boy Drug taking is generally a secret vue wiUi her — at first The drug may be prescribed by the physician to allay her highly nervous temperament This condition of nerves is apt to prevail too among people of the stage writers and other sensi'tve impressionA tragic Ins’ance was able artists the case of lordly Julia Bruns a gifted actress who became a prey to cocaine but by a heroic effort cured herself only to die before the was thirty after a gin partv The reverse of the medal Is Aleister r ard poet who Crowley British never experim nterf with nasheesn lie to debecame enslaved but this is not preciate the horrors cf this drug Crowley shook off the habit because drug-takin- drug-takin- high-strun- mv-ti- Ccrjf iM id§ 6iric THE LAYOUT Thit Photo Pood by 2 Girl NOT Addicti Show How “Chandu” or Opium Is Cooked and Proprd Smoked in Reclining Posture he was a man of terrific will power "case" verges on the Crowleys unique in that he resorted to drugs not through boredom or despair or any of the other complix emotional factors that rau e man to seek the “artificial paradises’’ of Thomas Be Quint ey Indeliberstead Crowley took ately in order to test the sensations and record them with a cold detached scientific interest Aa soon as he had satisfied himself that he knew all there was to be known about this drug he by the layman the practice and broke off abruptly never again permitted himself a similar His views on drugb — indulgence hasheesh — he emheroin cocaine bodied in a remarkable novel which was at one time the sensation of literary Ixindon Especially valuable was his chapter dealing with the effect of nurcotus on the mind and body of a young won an who played a hading part in the development of the story’s plot The coed may begin her drug takwho ing on the advice of another girl assures her that a mild narcotic will "keep her fit and normal " She beShe soon finds herself comes a s'ave without retources to buy the drug and her next step is to quietly ballyhoo for the drug peddler that she may receive as her reward her daily quota of “junk ” The “opium vamp re” often comes of Eooicty where from the upper and gaiety and 'money is plentiful pleasure the chief aims of life But too she eventually reaches the financial depths as all these talented brilliant tpmdthnfu do arid so she becomes a drug scout or conducts a drug den Onlv in the final stages of d spa-fio- n does opium destroy a woman’ beauty Often it improves it as the Ijk (gfMl Ji Ud AuLU g -- - -- - het-me- n |
