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Show GREATER USE OF NARCOTICS. Larger forces of treasury department depart-ment agents are to be placed In the field, In a campaign to reduce the use of narcotics. There la no one state in which this dissipation is centered Everywhere throughout tho country, the consumption consump-tion of narcotics Is increasing. One of the head officials of the de partment makes this statement: "We have to stop this drug evil and stop It quickly. It Is taking a terrific ter-rific toll among the young men and women of the nation Officials are beginning be-ginning to fully realize that it is one of the gravest, if not tho most danger ous, menaces wo have. It is possible to regulate the manufacture, but it will require every facility we can muster to prevent smuggling, and we mu.-' bl backed by the most drastic legislation. The sad part about the use of drugs Is j that after a person lakes the first few; doses the case is almost hopeless He I cannot be so easily reclaimed and re-1 stored to normal as the person who takes a few drink3 ot whisky." Ever, here in Ogden reports are made to th" police" department of j a growing traffic in habit-forming j drugs. It Is most difficult to trace ! the vendors or to get the addicts lo in- I form on those who are dragging them down lo ruin No affliction Is quite bo unnerving' as that of being a slave to narcotics, j and the man or woman who becomes j a victim should welcome death. f |