Show w6 11001q riltis Week INK 11? Lu - ‘) El C) EIMMItinfiEMINignMaiWiMMP nace Aottwe Shay While experts argue over "get tough" and "go easy" tactics our biggest scandal grows Here's how to end the stalemate Ely A E HOTCHNER find a quick solution so we can mount a full-sca- le attack on the narcotics problem? I believe there is a way to bring these opposing There are two dope wars now being fought One is sides together But before developing it we must —the classic war between the police and the—criminalt— —understand what points of agreement are between' them and what points keep them apart who import and distribute narcotics The other is author-Wet between two groups of eminent They agree that the dope situation in the US whose aims in trying to combat the dope menace today is desperate The 60000 drug addicts in the US represent a total greater than all other Westare so dissimilar that they are virtually fighting each ern nations combined Illegal dope traffic has other trebled since World War 111— in 1945 there was This war of the experts is a strange one: The two one addict to every 10000 persons in the US in sides agree as to the problem but have completely 1955 there was one to every 3000 Thirteen per cent opposite viewpoints as to solution One group led of the addicts in this country are under 21 An by such distinguished men as Narcotics Commissioner Harry J Anslinger and Judge Samuel S investigating Senate Committee his reported that SO per cent of all crime in US cities and 25 per cent Leibowitz wants to solve the dope problem with a of the total crime committed throughout the nation "get-tougpolicy including the electric chair for is a direct result of drug addiction the other spearheaded by confirmed pushers Narcotics Commissioner Senator Jacob K Javits New York City's Chief Anslinger firmly believes that Magistrate John M Murtagh and a host of psydrastic prison sentences for push- - chologists sociologists and thyskians wants to narers ranging up to life imprison- furnish addicts with either fre1 or nominal-cos- t ment or death is the way to knock cotics provided by public clinics out this drug traffic "Where you Whatever time these two groups of authorities 4 ) find heavy penalties like in De- Am spend fightingeach other is a handsome present to troit Baltimore Cincinnati and Aiiskovw the real enemy — the dope racketeer How can we -- anti-narcot- ic h" 1 t St Louis the traffic is going down" he says "Memphis at one titne was one of the big trafficking centers for the South but a judge started to throw the book at them and the traffic I might point out disappeared that armed robbery of the mails —got ti -- -' '!' "- - - AA) tsibowitz now carries a twenty-five-yeminimum penalty You do not see that any more because the criminal will not take that twenty-five-yechance Give us really heavy penalties we can do the same thing with the drug pushers" Judge Samuel Leibowitz feels the same way "Anyone who sells to a child or adolescent should be punished by death in the electric chair" he recently declared on the bench In 1956 the US Senate actually passed a drastic bill which provides that on third conviction for a narcotics offense a sentence can be imposed -- from which there can be no parole and if the conviction is for a sale to a person eighteen or under then a death sentence may be given for a first offense However no one has yet received the death sentence nor has an assessment been made of the effect of this bill on Continued on next page ar ar 40-ye- ar — 11 |