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For years China was the chief consumer of opium.America uses as much dope” as China.And during one recent year 40 times as much dope” as any other nation of white people.It takes only 3 V4 tons of morphine to supply the world for the use In medicine.Over 1,500 tons of morphine are manufactured every year-—what becomes of the 1,49 6 tons which are not used for medicine.Three-fourths of It comes to the United States of America for distribution.These figures are taken from calm, cool, disinterested government reports.Think them over and see whatthey seem to mean—to you.There are five kinds of dopenow Inundating this country like, a slimy flood escaping from some foul sewer.Morphine, cocaine, heroin. Hashish and Marijuana.Morphine and heroin are made from the opium poppy and It comes from India and China and Turkey and Persia.Cocaine Is made from the leaves of the coca plant which grows in South and Central America.Less than ten years ago you could buy heroin in any drug store Just as you buy quinine.The doctors thought it was a wonderful medicine combining the power of nerve calming and heart stimulation and they believed that It was entirely harmless.It didn't take them long to discover that the new drug heroin was more dangerous and more deadlythan either morphine or cocaine.Hashish is made from Indian hemp—that Isn’t used very much In America—yetTurks, Syrians, Armenians, Lascars these are the Hashish eaters. Look out for them—they kill for the love of killing.Marijuana Is the new menace that’s creeping In from the southwest.It Is made from the American cousin to Indian hemp and has another cousin we call loco weed, when we find It on the ranges in the west.Every western rancher knows and fears loco weed.Let a horse once get a nibble of It and he is useless forever after.Marijuana is made Into cigarettes and you can buy those cigarettes almost anywhere in the south- the Paciflo, show it to a Federal or-west. fleer and he will show you his listThey are sold In Los Angeles, in with some one or two of youri San Diego, In Galveston in Fort friends of sach avocation on his reo-! Worth. In Dallas, In El Paso—! ordaand they are coming north every day. | And the worst of It Is that It at-Morphln# dulls the brain, breaks I tacks and conquers youth first of all. down the body, and makes a tremb-! Throw out a drag net In any cityling coward and a hopeless liar of: in the country and bring In a hun-the bravest and the most truthful person.Cocaine stimulates the courage until a weak little creature full of cocaine does nod hesitate to attack a room full of husky policemen and the madneae of cocaine la such that the coke fiend” is more than a match for three or four ordinary men, while the coke la In his veins.Most of the professional gunmendred dope” slaves.| Out of the hundred 10 will be un- 1 I der 26, and 70 will be under 20. jThe Federal officers have fought: In the last year peddlers selling dope” to university students, to j high school boys and girls, and to■ the members of a well known church 1 j society which has done much good ] I in various pants of the world.Wider and wider grows the range, 1 and burglars and hold-up men In! th* -mall town first, then the little 1this country do their work under th°n th# lone,ythe Dope Ring” is gathering them in day and night.There’s money in dops”—big money—for those who sell It.the stimulus of cocaineMarijuana will drive any one who uses it often to the Insane asylum and Hashish makes a joyous murderer of the mildest mannered man. j nere 8 ru,n ana misery ana aeg-Flne influences to set loose in the radation and madness and death in |dope” for those who use It So far the money seems to talk“DOPR”A WARNING “JL JLBy Winifred Black „Fine Influences to set loose in the United States of America—aren’t they?Where does it all come from, this flood of murder and cruelty and disease and despair?It comes Into America In ths crude form—a great deal of It.Our great factories make it usable —and then export It to China, to Japan, to the Straits Settlements, etc.,—and then back again It comes creeping In, seeping In, sliding In, tiptoeing in, by the route of the smuggle!*.It comes In ths water pipes of the great ships, it Is hidden In the walls of the first class cabins,^ under the floor In the steerage, in the cans of tinned vegetables, in the cook’s galiy.It comes over the gang-plank In the hair of a smartly dressed wo man, In the lining of the clothes of a well-dressed man—In the blue blouse of a Chinese waiter.It is brought In quantltes put into hot water bags, tied to floats, and thrown overboard, outside the port of San Francisco.And when the great ship has passed Into the harbor, the confederates ashore slip out In fast little launches and get It.The other day in New York, a truck driver ran into a barrel of dried fish which stood unobtrusively In a quiet corner of the wharf.The barrel burst—and there were Just a few dried fish on top and all the rest was morphine.Dope” comes In across the Canadian border. It comes In the tires of automobiles, In the hoods of automobiles, In the drawing-rooms of the Pullman cars, in the freight trains and it Is brought In by tramps who cross the border on foot.The same thing Is true on the Mexican border.Tons of It—not pounds, not ounces—tons, and every grain of It means misery and degradation.The dope” habit is spreading a hideousthe loudest.There’s only one word of advloe toIt used to be confined to thebe given about dope.”Don’t try it the first time, no mat ter who asks you.Don’t take a sniff of oocalna, no matter whether they call It snow or Joy-powder.Don't think you’ll Just try it once for the fun of It.Thousands of people have enslaved for life by Just one first sniff of cocaine.Don’t let anybody perauade you to take a Jolt of morphine except your family physician, and If he’s ^ good physician, he won’t give It to you if there’s a thing else In the world left for him to do.Don't smoke a Marijuana cigarette—don’t smoke any cigarette that any stranger gives you, unless you'ro sure of the brand. A few whiffs of Marijuana will knock you out before you realize what’s happening.Keep your eyes open. Keep your mind on the alert. Don’t let yourself be Influenced by anybody or anything—Keep away from dope.” Copyright, 1923, by Newspaper Features Syndicate.TAXIO OWNERS TO DISCUSS SAFETYIt came out of the slums four orlawyers, clergymen, society women, actors and actresses, bank clerks, journalists, waiters, taxi drivers, girls In department stores—make a list of the advocations followed in this country from the Atlantic toCHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Discussion of a safety” campaign by taxicab companies over the country will constitute an Important part of the sessions of the semi-annual convention of the National Association of Taxicab Owners here on February 15 and 16.Taxicab men already are directing campaigns In many citl.es to reduce automobile accidents by curbing reckless drivers and careless pedestrians.The association now has a membership of more than 100 companies, and also has members In Canada,Mexico and Japan.America’s Largest Dry dock.Boston has the only drydock in America that Is capable of receiving a steamship as large as the Majestic, when that huge liner has Just been receiving a grooming to give her geater speed.To the Farmernf Sfairlr Pmint
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Canton Sunday News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Feb 18, 1923
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