The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-04-10

further, the use of drugs has crept
into colleges, where students take
them to counterfeit the effects Of over
work; they crept into the Army,
soldiers take them to counterfeit the
effects of overwork" Writers use
them to whip their inventiveness into
action" Walters use drugs to quicken
their memory and ut has been esti-
mated that Is per cent of all the med
| ical men in the United States are drug
addicts.' Worst of : ALL school
children, even at the ages of seven
and eight, are offered cocain and hero
in by peddlers about public school
buildings" Turning directions we see
that "in that section of civilized So
ciety known as the underworld, cocain
addiction is practically universal.
Under it's influence are most OF the
daring crimes committed. Most the
attacks upon white women of the South
says Dr. Christopher Koch, are the
direct result of cocain crazed negro
BRAIN Thousands of dingy novels
are scattered through the negro sec
tons of Southern cities where snow
is retailed in dime boxes through back
doors which are prevented by chains
from opening more than three inches.
In New York City, we are informed,
there is practically no restraint upon
to for ,i,,cr Il 1cc'
as a result, according to one ply
stefan, there are ten deadly drug cases
| to one of alcoholism So it is not in
appropriate that Mrs w. K. Vanderbilt
| Sr., should have begun to finance an
antidrug campaign which will first
concern itself with the passage OF ne
cessary Federal and State legislation
| for present State legislation Is prac-
tically nil and there is no Federal
legislation, save In the cases OF the
opium traffic, which, instead OF being
killed thereby, has been increased, 1t
is asserted A restrictive measure is
4 now before the New York State lesfs-
! lature. All very we'll; but the trouble
is, says the New York Commercial,
such laws can not be made effective
unless similar measures are passed by
other states And the New York
/, Globe, seeing the same difficulty,
would find a remedy in Federal action
j; -"Congress should act without fur
Their delay and enact drastic law not
only to cover the present known hab-
Informing drugs, but comprehensive
, enough to provide for any new drug
, that may come into existence Re
striction of some sort is obviously
desirable if the state of affairs is half
> as bad as it is represented, admits the
New York Sun. Only, it continues,
instead of tinkering everlastingly with
the law, it would be prudent to find out
the reasons for the failure Of the law
as it stands. Having failed to check
the il1egitimate use of drugs by legls-
: lation, the reformers are now for more
: legislation, and apparently some OF
. them do not care whether it interferes
: with legitimate uses or not The
Government has one weapon now
several editors note, since 'habit-form-
= ing drugs such as opium and its de-
rivatives are excluded from the mails.
y The Postoffice Department, says the
= New York Commercial, tries to justif.
- its prohibition of the transmission o
!. such drugs by firms in trade. b,
showing that a large number OF prac
" Using physicians in this country ar
- evidently violating the law by sellin'
= such drugs to the unfortunate victim
- of the habit. This is the severes
= arraignment of the medical profession
that has yet been made public. II
is true that physicians are the chic
80 dispensers of habN-forming drugs il
" an illegal and even criminal manner
: more vigorous measures should be ia
ken to expose their criminality an
to drive them out of business, Ply
sicians are permitted to enjoy certai
. privileges, and the breach Of faith tc
" ward the general public involved l
the illegal sale of habit-forming drug
- by them is a gross outrage
- The cheapness of these drugs an
Il. the ease with which they can be OF
L tanned in all parts of the country fail
" ly amaze the New York World-"CC
90 cain and its allied intoXicants appea
~ to be about the cheapest things in on
market The are seemingly cheape
than whiskey, cheaper than bee
cheaper in proportion to the effect
than tea or coffee Even in the OIL
days of untaxed whiskey, when spirit
of local distilling could be had fc
five cent glass, the price of into,