Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT. is DOING

extent-border the southern half of
Flathead lake, which is thirty miles
long. twelve miles wide and lies be-
tween the picturesque ranges Of the
Rocky mountains only a few miles
southwest of the Glacier National
of the lake have been under private
ownership for years and are dotted
with orchards, permanent homes and
villas. A regular line of boats plies
the waters of the lake and an automo-
bile boulevard skirts its shores and
connects 1t with Glacier National Park.
When the land was sold at auction re-
Gently persons from practically every
state In the Union were on hand and
made purchases. Every one OF the sos
sites was sold. and as a result $125,00O
found it's way into the Golfers Of the
Indian funds.
How many drug addicts. popularity
known as dope fiends," are there in
the United States?
Drug Addicts in Some writer's have
This Country. assert sU"s t that 's per s cent
of the population Of the country. or
about 100000 persons, are victims of
habit forming drugs. but experts OF
the United States public health service
who have just completed an inquiry
into the matter reach the conclusion
that the number is probably not far
from 100000, just one-tenth the lay
estimate.
The public health service found the
question a difficult one to answer for
obvious reasons. and was obliged to
make checking estimates from various
points of departure. 1t was known,
for instance, that the amount Of opium
and its derivatives legitimately inn
ported in year Is sufficient . lof
$780, 200. 900 average doses. and that
the amount of cocoa leaves and cocaine
similarly brought into the country an
nually would make 325.000.000 average
doses. Since the amount OF habit
forming drugs brought in illegitlmate-
service took the import records as set
ting the extreme limits Of use by ad-
diets
In Tennessee. where an exceedingly
strict anti-narcotic law is in force, the
service found the most trustworthy
data as to the number Of addicts and
the amounts of drugs consumed. Just
1870 users Of habit-forming drugs.
ton. were registered year after the
law went into effect and the users of
opium and it's derivatives each con-
sumed an average of 10000 doses a
wear. me same TdI1O dpp1lcu " Tic
whole country would give $4,000 ad-
diets using 1.416000 900 average doses.
Cocaine users. the public health serv.
ice estimates. increase the total or
drug victims to 100000.
Though the new federal anti-narcotic
law has been in effect only a few
months the investi gators found that
such statistics as it has made availa-
BILE so far bear out their statements
that previous estimates Of the number
Of dope f1ends'' have been excessive.
The governments health experts state.
however that the real conditions are
opium and cocoa consumed in America
is out of all proportion to the needs
for medical purposes.
The passage of child labor laws,
however stringent they may be, does
not necessarily dispose of
Child Labor all problems in regard to
proh1.r,. the employment of chill
dren. as many persons as
sumo. The children's bureau of the De-
partment of Labor has recognized this,
and Is now determining just how valua
BILE the laws in various states are as a
protection to children by careful
study of their administration and oper-
alton.
The study of the child labor situation
in Connecticut, the first state to be
considered. has just been completed, and
has emphasized the fact that the in
vestigation is to be largely concerned
with the child labor certificates issued
when child of a certain age is per-
mitted to go to work. They are the
means Of the children's Identification
and are, in word, their state-issued
working cards"
The systems for issuing and making
use of these certificates vary widely
IN the different states. the variations
to great extent measuring the effec-
tiveness of the laws. The children's
bureau hopes, with the data to be gath
cred, to be able to frame a standard
law containing the provisions that have
been found in the various Jurisdictions
to be the really essential ones.
Although the general outlines of
child labor laws in the various states
are similar, they are known to vary
widely in the theories on which they
certificates may be issued and looked
after by different agencies. and may be
the property In one state of one of the
interested parties. and in different
state Of another. The law as whole
may be either a part of the labor leg
Of the compulsory education laws The
latter consideration was found to hold
in Connecticut, where the entire admin
istration of the law is in the hands of
the state board of education. Thus it
was found that the main element in
enforcement of the certificate law is
an elaborate system Of following up
children for enforcement of the com
pulsory school attendance law, since a
child between fourteen and sixteen
years of age must be either in school
or legally employed.
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Most antiseptics are poisonous not only
to the troublesome germ which they are
supposed to destroy. but
Production to persons and animals
Of Thymo Ss ws Of thrm ns5fi In m. she
cine and sanitation. for it is almost
unique among inexpensive drugs in that
1t has powerful ger1nicidal properties, and
is not harmful to humans. But, as in the
case of many other valuable drugs and
chemicals, the United States has been de-
pendent in the past on importations from
Europe for its supply Of this exceedingly
valuable substance, and war conditions
have put stop to its arrival
Recently one Of the agents Of the De-
partment of Commerce has made q study
Of tho source and production of the drug,