Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-24
DOPE" TRAFFIC
OPENLY Piled
woman Accuses Federal
Agents Of Not Trying
to Curb 1t
urR SON AN ADDICT
Sale Carried on by Street Corner
Peddlers, With Little Or No
Attempt at Concealment

scathng Indictment Of the Federal
.ssnts who are employed to round up drug
.s.mckers. but who instead, she declares. are
,a..,nS down on the job" to such an extent
,s,t any one who walks along the streets
= he Tenderloin can purchase dope" was
s..ds today by Mrs. Emma Campbell. y
s.o ia the mother Of Neal f. Campbell
o,,nq heir TO a 100000 estate left him
bis grandfather, an eminent "old-school"
,.u,ser of Philadelphia. The boy is twenty
n,e wears of age and when application was
ode several days ago In Judge Stakes
nnnrt by his mother to prevent the estate
Ling turned over to his direction. 1t be-
ssme known that he has been drug fend
sysr since he was sixteen years of age
7, her little West Philadelphia home at
,seo Hazel avenue, the harassed mother
SSmny and nervous, told the story Of the
s,o years nightmare she has gone through
.,or since her son, led astray by a school
nov chum, became addicted to the herOin
"a "coke" habit. She told of wild nights
snhsr shrinking and afraid she ventured into
~ strange haunts of the Tenderloin, where
sho suspected he had gone to get the
sstuff" and where she followed him i'm the
hone of getting him back home before he
IA succeeded And all during the telling
sbe glanced nervously at the door because
Neal had taken some money to go down
,own TO buy summer hat and she was not
nuite sure that the hat would be bought
with the money
DRUGS EASY TO GET
oNten in the Governments employ" she
.oid "are being paid for work that they
are not doing II they were on the job
these Federal agents my boy and other
hovs like him could not get the drugs with
the ease that they can and do.
hot 1,,,,rV raY, ~
cot from peddlers on Chestnut street and II
Dc Reading Terminal and Broad Stree
station in broad daylight. and myself hav,
seen With my own eyes the ease with whicl
a can be passed from one person to anothe
in the Tenderloin. l have been sitting il
restaurants there or walking along tn
streets and watched men and women pas
{, 10 each other. They scarcely take tn
Mains to hide what they are doing.
"If I'm my ineXperience can detect them
rbv cant these Government agents. The.
know that my son is drug hend the,
know many others, and yet despite all thi
nublicity, despite his confession in court, h
found ii easy to go out last night and ge
some | know that rhe did. | could tell
by his eyes when he came home and tn
way he slept
The family is a prominent one. The ho
has been educated at expensive schools l
washington and at the Loretta Academ
lad, having played on the football teams
the various schools ne attended.
LED ASTRAY BY DOCTORS son
HThe son of a well-llnown doctor in Can
den, where we used to live" Mrs Campbe
said, taught him the use of dope when b
was sixteen. That boy is dead now. bl
before he died he ruined fifteen other boys
made dope fiends out of them. His sistt
was engaged to my boy but on the day thi
all this came out she threw him over an
married some one else.
81 did not know the awful thing thi
had happened to my boy until the enac
ment of the Harrison law. Then reaiizir
the terrible hold the habit had got on hi
and fearing that he would be unable
get any more ne told me all about it ol
day. and said that if he couldn't get
in some way | must manage it for him.
81 took him to a doctor and sever
times we have had him in the hospital +
treatment. When he comes back he
pink and rosy and wonderfully good loo
ing but he doesn't seem able to do wit
out the stuff and always goes back. II
guardian would give him money and tn
would be the end. Give a dope fiend mon
in Philadelphia and the easiest thing in I
world for him to get Is dope.
81 believe that unscrupulous druggis
and doctors are much TO blame, but l
not think the Federal agents are on I
Job. They are being paid to do somethi
which they are not doing-stopping
drug traffic"