Show LEGION WILL WAR ON DOPE commission director powell makes first announcement of organizations organization activity ninety five per cent of the everin ever in creasing dope peddlers in america are of alien birth or parentage declared garland W powell director of the americanism commission of the american legion in an address at indianapolis recently mr powell said that if the drug menace Is not checked this country will become a drug soaked nation within 23 25 years this Is the first official announcement ment that the american legion would enter the war on illicit narcotic dealers a and nd dispensers of habit forming drugs mr powell urged that the restriction of immigration to this country would check the traffic in dope and that the legion would proceed to that end in describing the activities of the dope peddlers mr powell made these assertions one person in every seventy three ages drugs as a habit there are persons now in america who cannot face existence without drugs and who are swiftly sinking into a condition of hopelessness and death the death of the drug addict to IB premeditated murder on the part of the peddler for he knows the fatal result of the habit if I 1 were in a position to introduce a bill in congress or in state legislatures I 1 would make cap capital punishment the penalty for ped dking drugs mr powell made the statement that the use of dope Is steadily growing among children ile he declared that federal investigators had recently found cases case of drug addiction among high school students and also among the pupils of lower grades he cited one instance where a peddled was arrested as he be waited outside for hit hl customers custo mers to come from their classes |