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Show Let Reid Come Back, Foe of Drugs Pleads NEW YuRK Dec. 18. Sympathy for Wallace Held, the movie star, and the opinion that, if he wins his fight to throw off the drug habit, he should bo reinstated in the world of moving pictures, were expressed today by the chief foemnn of the traffic in narcotics nar-cotics In the entire east Dr. Carleton Simon, special deputy police commissioner commis-sioner In charge of the narcotic division. divi-sion. "In the bcR-lnninT, not knowing whnt he was getting into. Held probably W8S tho victim of friends-." said Dr. Simon "Before he knew it he became the victim vic-tim of a power greater than hlmjK 11 "Public blame should be flow In theso cases, and If a man by going through a very hell of d nial and treatment proves himself and OOmeS back and It can be done he should be welcomed as one out of the tolls of the damned. "ThiB office has received countless letters of thanks from men who hav come back men who have once cursed us in tho agony of their recovery. re-covery. But nature is kind, and a man who wins the fight recovers his old self and becomes free again I am glad to see that Mr. Hays is going to take determined steps to kill the drug ring In Hollywood. We ire fighting It here and we arc going to stamp it out, but it ls a colossal task. A drug addict Is a fiend; ho will do anvthlng, pay any price for his dope. Agents are usually In intimate toueh with their users, and the combination Is hard to break up. We are ready to help and oure those who are victims, vic-tims, but for those sua' e devlla who smuggle and distribute this stuff justice jus-tice ls swift and severe. They are a great social mcnaco." |