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Show IDRUG HABIT HGBT I TO SAVE SOLDIERS NEW YORK. Oct. 30. Elimination of the drug habit as a measure to safe-guard safe-guard the health of sajlors and soldiers sol-diers is the object of a fight begun by Arthur Woods, police commissioner, who announced today he had written to Attorney General Gregory and United States Senator Calder asking their cooperation and that each had promised that federal legislation would be introduced at the next congress. con-gress. This bill would restrict the sale, exportation, importation and distribution dis-tribution of all habit-form!ng drugs. The commissioner said ho had been reliably informed that drugs are being be-ing smuggled from Canada and are being be-ing sold here at a profit of from 300 to -100 per cent. About 2.000 arrests are being mado hero yearly, tho use of heroin and cocaine having increased alarmingly in a decade, the commissioner commis-sioner said. |