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Show oo DOPE FIENDS IN OGDEN Women, working In the uplift of young people, slate thai the "dope" habit is growing in Ogden. Girls placed under arrest and boys operating operat-ing as a gang are known to be users of narcotics. More distressing than the spread of the liquor habit, more alarming than immorality itgplf would be the grip of the drug habit on our boys and girls, for "dope" not only ruins It destroys body and soul' Those who sell to addicts or to new victims, the drugs that undermine health and conscience, are the devil's w orkers. One a young person is within tho clutches of the narcotics, there is little lit-tle hope of restoration to normal con ditlon. The dope fiend goes down to tho depths of depravity and when too late, prays for release from the horrors hor-rors of a terrible nightmare, but prays In vain Death alone offers escape from the despair which seizes the victim. vic-tim. Lately a woman writer has been studying at lirst hand the trattic in prohibited drugs In San Francisco, and her experience with the drug fiends is a story of wreck and ruin almost unbelievable. un-believable. Girls In cabarots, on the stage. In the restaurants girls everywherewere every-wherewere being dragged down to pits of woe, there to plead and beg for more drugs, and Tight the furies. No community can neglect to battle against ihe drug habit To do so would be to invite a plague worse than in-Huenza. |