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Show A Million Drug Addicts. More opium per capita is being used in the United States than any other country iti Ibe world. Internal Revenue Conutvssioner Daniel C. Roper asserted assert-ed before tbe University club the other oth-er night. Tlie statement came after a report hy Deputy Commissioner John Walker, in charge of the collection of excise ta.xes, during an open meeting of Commissioner Com-missioner Roper's "cabinet" of assistants, assist-ants, held' to show the working of the organization controlling the collection of the largest tax bill of any country at any lime. Almost one million pounds of opium, opi-um, half of which is being secured legally, of a total value of $20,000,000. is being used a year by Americans, according ac-cording to Deputy Commissioner Walk- N or. lie staled that a million Inhabitants Inhabi-tants of the country are drug addicts. One-quarter of this number were classed as vagrants. A million pounds of cocoa leaves and derivative drugs were said to be used a year In this cot! n try. Smuggling by airplane is1 presenting present-ing a new problem to be solved In the illicit drug traffic. It was stated. Deputy Dep-uty Commissioner Walker based his siatonienf upon a report received by him from Representative H. T. Rainey of Illinois, chairman of a special committee com-mittee investigating conditions controlled con-trolled by the Harrison anti-narcotic act. Washington Star. |