| Show A NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton gallant crusader against the marijuana weed NEW TEW YORK the good men do necessarily interred with their bones if they have operating cooperating co wives the late hamilton wrights 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 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 rs pressing a campaign among children and they found the children smoking marijuana they passed a law the use of the weed crept on to new york rhode island massachusetts pennsylvania texas a 5 an and d sev several C r 11 southern states at the richmond congress mrs wright represented the federal bureau of narcotics in 1921 she began her service as one of three international ter members of the opium advisory committee of the league of nations and has since waged her fight against the drug traffic in every country where it originates she was elizabeth washburn the daughter of the late senator william drew washburn who had been minister to france hamilton wright traveled agitated e d organized wrote and lectured for years against narcotics when in 1918 he went to paris as a member of the peace conference he was killed in a street accident mrs wright highly placed socially goci ally in washington left her pleasant home and her four cl children ildren and picked up her husbands gage where it had fallen in china turkey and persia she fought against the world tide of poison she traced the green capsule of the p poppy appy from the fields of yun nan and scensi provinces to the slums and stews of world capitals she rounded up the story ot 0 the foreign e ig agn wars waged against china to make her admit indian opium with ellen la motte who wrote the backwash of war she pieced together a narrative as unlovely as any chaplet 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 pick your opponent why not just take marijuana weed this writer speaks with feeling on this subject having observed one citizen chewing an others ear oft off in a mountain hamlet in southern mexico quite a few years before the weed became an extracurricular extra curricular interest in american high schools I 1 had joined in singing the quaint la cucaracha Cuca racha song about the cockroach that got so full of marijuana weed that he walk home there was nothing in the song about the drugs peculiar incitement cit ement to mayhem the song will become distasteful to anyone who has seen marijuana at work also my experience near Maz atlan where a peon was shooting up the town and lunging at passersby with a machete it was about eleven years ago that the brooklyn police arrested andrew Ilu aluerta erta a mexican sailor who was selling marijuana cigarettes in a backyard in queens he showed them a knee high crop of marijuana this led to the arrest of racketeers growing the weed and selling 1 cigarettes to soldiers every year or so there is an arrest the cigarettes are made from the dried leaves and the flowers of the weed which is known as go wild tobacco and looks like a tomato vine it is a tough growth and so is the habit if somebody on the subways bites you you will know what is the matter all states as mrs wright reports have laws aga against irist its growth or use except south carolina kentucky and tennessee but so far as this writer can learn there has been no unified or vigorous action there Is meager information and there is accumulating evidence that with repeal some of the more resourceful liquor racketeers became agrical turis jurists ts lost atlantis again for more than thirty years professor leo frobenius has been taking the shine off our modern civilization by demonstrating that a lot of it is old stuff the famous german archeologist archaeologist arche lecturing in the united states is one of the leading defenders of the lost continent of atlantis theory now sixty four years old he delves tirelessly in india africa egypt tripoli and turkey the son of a german army officer also an author and scholar he made his first expedition in 1901 1904 of all savants savanis sa lie he has turned up the mo most st convincing evidence that many strata of great buried civili civil lations our house of life a consoilar d new features feature service |
