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Show WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton TTTTTTT f TTTTTTTTTTTTTT Gallant Crusader Against the Marijuana Weed NEW YORK. The good men do isn't necessarily-interred necessarily-interred with their bones if they have co-operating wives. The late Hamilton Wright's world war on narcotics has been shoved on down through 19 years of tireless fighting by his widow. At Richmond, Va., recently, Mrs. Wright pleaded to the National Congress Con-gress of Parents and Teachers for united and effective action against the marijuana weed, murderous Mexican narcotic smoked by school children. She calls it the "most pernicious of drugs." In New Mexico, twelve years ago, the state narcotics commission found growers and cigarette manufacturers manu-facturers pressing a campaign among children, and they found the children smokincr marijuana. They passed a law. The use of the weed j crept on to New York, Rhode Island, J Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tex- j i as and several southern states. I At the Richmond congress, Mrs. j I Wright represented the federal bureau bu-reau of narcotics. In 1921, she be- ; I gan her service as one of three in- , ternational members of the opium j advisory committee of the League i of Nations, and has since waged her fight against the drug traffic in ev- : ery country where it originates. She was Elizabeth Washburn, the . daughter of the late Senator William Wil-liam Drew Washburn, who had been 1 j minister to France. I Hamilton Wright traveled, agitat- : ' ed, organized, wrote and lectured 1 for years against narcotics. When, : in 1918, he went to Paris as a mem- ' ' ber of the peace conference, he was killed in a street accident Mrs. I Wright, highly placed socially in 1 Washington, left her pleasant home 1 and her four children and picked 1 up her husband's gage where it had i fallen. j I China. Turkey and Persia, she I foucht against the world tide of poi-' poi-' son. She traced the preen capsule ; of the poppy, from the fields of Yun-; Yun-; nan and Shrnsl province to the i slums and stews of world capitals. She rounded up the story of the for- eign wars waged against China lo I make her admit Indian opium. With Ellen La Motte, who toU "The fiackwash of War," she pieced to- Rcthcr a narrative as unlovely as any cliaplct of horror which ever rested on the brow of the nations. There are so many things to be against these days, it is hard to rick your oppencnt. Why net just take marijuana weed? This writer speaks with feeling on this subject having observed one citiron chewing chew-ing another's ear ctT i:i a mountain h.m-.lot in southern Mexico, quite a few years before the weed became an extra-curricular interest in American high schools. I had Joined in singing the quaint "La Cucaracha" song about the cockroach that got so full of marijuana mari-juana weed that he couldn't walk home. There was nothing in the 1 song about the drug's peculiar in- ! citemcnt to mayhem. Tie song will I become distasteful to anyone who j has seen marijuana at work also ! my experience near Maratlan. I where a peon was shooting up the j town and lunging at passcrsby with ' a machete. " It was about cloven years ago that the Brooklyn police arrested , Andrew IlurrU. a Mexican sailor, i who was selling marijuana ciga- I rottes. In a backyard in Querns, he showed them a knee-high crop of marijuana. This ,-d to the arrest j of racketeers, growing the weed and j selling cigarettes to soldiers. I Every year or so there is an ar- j rest. The cigarettes are made I from the dried leaves and the (low- I ers of the weed, whi.-li ( t .,.,. "wild tobacco" and looks like a to-"'lo to-"'lo vine. It is a tough growth mid so is the habit. If somcbodv bites you on the subway, vou will know what is the matter. All states, as Mrs. Wright reports have laws against its growth or ue" except South Carolina. Kentucky and Tennessee Hut. so far as this writ- u.utled or vigorous action, there Is meager information and there io accumulating ac-cumulating evidence that, with re-Peal, re-Peal, some of the more resourceful J -Ueloors been,, agricul- l ost Atlantla Again. For more than thirty years. Pro- ,7iT ITFlvN-"i"'1 been tak-l- g the shine off our modern civ.li. r. l on by demonstrating that a lot T " I" ol,J stnlT. The fi,mou C-r- V"1' 1 S,1,,rs' "' i'f Ihe loa,i,ng '- -.,, cr. of ,hr lost (Vntim.n " Atlantis theory. Nw . ,l '";;- ;,., ,;. : , n';, s"" "f 'in,,,.,,, lllmv ;"-'Van1,.,, ,,,s ,,, ,.,,. h" '' ''"'""'.: n,l,,,1Y ,, ., n,:,,,,'v u "f I,,, ,,, fa,,",,!" "X'loilv OiiV ).. ,,, , , ' ""- ' I. .1 .. . , ,, . M :, 1, ,. ' 1 |