Show DEt iES ES lEAGUE fIGHTS DRUGS To Rep Porter Refuses Discuss Question With Lord Roberte Robert e WASHINGTON April The 23 23 league of ot nations instead of ot sup sup- sup suppressing pressing th the traffic In form habit habit form In Ing drugs drug dru did quite the contrary Porter or of o the tir house foe foe- to en I n affairs committee declared In InA ina Ina A letter to Lord I orrt Robert Cecil lead le leid Ing In British proponent ot or the leal who ho is now In Washington declininG an appointment to dis- dis discuss dis discuss cuss cus the activities It les or of o the leagues league's opium commission IV IY SIG SIGM Ln 1 I Ur Mr Potter POI tool took Issue with a 11 in hi an al signed b LOld Robert Hob rt that tho league haj had struck vigorous rigorous blows at world- world sils lis like Ille the sale s of opium oRlum ODium co- co eune co une and other no lou drugs and d with his letter he made public Sunday copies rf of his 9 committees s hearing and antI Its report on Ih the resolution adopted in the concluding do dB d s of te the list se e Ion ot of congress calling for the limitation of pi of ot or lum and coeo leaves to the quantity needed d only for strictly medicinal end td scientific purposes hen a milar I nos i b M the tho opium commis- commis lon commis-lon Ion of If th the league l ht sail the latter substituted tho Word lord leg foi the phrase strictly medicinal and nd scientific at the suggestion sue of the delegate lea lea-ato at that the the Indian population population population tion is ha throughout vast vist areas with without Ith- Ith out adequate medicinal a and therefore takes opium In small doses doseo a as ii It prophylactic prophylactic lactic or as an c e I remedy emed against rJ diseases j jI FELLS I CC The US uses of opium enumerated b by the Indian delegate I were nere ere clear tar I ly medicinal Mr Ir Porter orter added I end therefore there was nas no city for the amendment 1 Mr Ir It Porter slid he h WAS cUllous 1 la to 1 know ho how In view slew ot of this reco- reco oJ of ot the legitimacy of ot th the I opium traffic in certain cert parts of the world orld the league Intended to discharge a as far tar as this Alis cut OMI was w Concerned the sacred trust of CI ci- civilization toI I for Cor the well being and de- de de development of oC not yet able to stand by themselves as set et forth In Its covenant |