The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-13

your last cent that paid in fun for
all
I didn't care 70 learn but as usual
/ bad companions were the real cause.
| In New York | had as many friends
as man would care to have. when
/ ] ny friends, | don't mean acquaint-
ances, for there is big difference
between a true friend and a mere nc
QuhintanCc. was known from the
Battery to Washington Heights, Hut
today these tru" friends walk on the
other side Of tho street when they
see me coming. for they fear | will
stop them and say.
Lend me three dollars I've got
five--I want to get some happy
/ dust"
just suppose ! was addicted to tho
usa OF drugs. ] am earning 46 cents
| per hour for an e!ght-hour day,
always used an eighth OF an ounce
| per day. costing I'm New York s. per
| eighth ounce. How could | support
my drug habit on f36S per day IL
! ! lived DIN the square? That's "A
/ question nobody can answer, not
even myself ! met a soldier boy In
| the county jail here In Tulsa. lie
/ told mo not to worry. that he ex-
/ pccted TO get come coke through "A
/ visitor and said no would fix me
| up" | told him that coke ~ no good
, for a man with tho morphine habit,
and | also told him that people
would never take hm for a dope
/ head. - lie said he had no habit. but
/ that he took little coke nov and
| then 90 give him nerve 10 steal
lie ~ greatly mistaken. A man
charged up" with coke Will not
/ have the nerve to steal stick OF
, ciLpdy from a little baby. lie was
| charged with stealing u Buick auto
mobile and had got as far as Sa-
pulpa when placed under arrest As
! | said before, n "dopehcad' will do
almost anything imaginable to OBJ
tain the drug when in want OF ~,
even 10 the extent OF murder. II that
| be necessary 10 ease his craving, but
! he IL the most harmless creature In
tho world when he is fulp OF coke He
is wretchcd and miserable. that's ali
| can say under that head. If II took
cocaine TO give him nerve. then this
overseas man would not now be do
! ing his little "V" in MCAlcSlcr -,...
Personally ! feel fine. never felt
hotter in my life. II ! were to use n
| barrel Of coke today | could leave
! II alone for a week and never suffer
a bit viii only make me "A pack Of
bones and cause my cyea To bulge
ont Of my hoad like n ball OF fire.
Who would care TO go through all
this misery for the sake OF "A very
( brief imaginary pleasure? Cocaine
really makes YOU cheerful for but
/ only ten minutes but when II dies
out of your system you viii wish you
were dead, for there is nothing more
miserable than the dying out OF CO
Calnc I'm a drug addiCts system.
cannot understand to this very
day why a physician presrribes CO.
ca!ne for "A morphine addict The
doctors In tho big city allow each
"snowdustcr" 10 gpanH along with
n So~graln hcroin prescription. There
Is no habit attached 10 it's use and
II is mystery tn me why they dis
pense this drug In question. / guess
II Is done more az a favor and | am
surprised that tho board OF health
doesn't put II up TO these physicians
70 explain why they prescribe 1t to
hahituar morphine users When a.
legal cocaine selling was at It's
height in New York the seldp RS
cleaned up young fortunes because
its slaves were simply wild about it
II brought on such funny imagin-
ings. though FOR only a few minutes
and after that-wcll We WILL leave II
to one who has been up against It,
The first shot makes you perspire
terribly, you feel like a drowned rat:
then your whole body is ice cold and
numb. then comes tho fun 1t Ia