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New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Dur Drug Addicts and What We Are Doing for Ther

pale. A cold, clammy sweat A..
from their skin. Coming out, thew ,s',s ~'s.
upright. with steady knees ana sss M
footsteps. The aspen ouiver,a- 'sH
passed off for the time being NJ, ny
eyes are less sunken, but the ,nss s.s
are already narrowing. Their oh sspa
are flushed and their skin ;s +..
ent as a consumptive's. They fesl fs'' -
doing things in their temporary .xai ,'a
|-aration. They have entered ;,.s sAa'''
only halcyon they know. It !, T 'as
lived, but they are content-,. AOf''
time being. " 'ns
The amount Of stuff that tn. .as..
can stand varies largely with his nss: ss'.'
cal condition and the length - ass'-
for which he has been slave to a.~ ~us
twenty grains day is fair avs,ss' ss
though many of them 20 as h;.s
forty. At the clinic they are ztss,s -
being reduced to ten and five Tss4
is supposed to be the irreducible auon''
After that, it is cure. ''u'
One of the strangest histories hro,.s,
to light since the clinic was s..V,
is the story of the magazin. u..'D r.;s
who took cocaine and went down ~ ~
lowest dregs with it. By d;nt =.
ssr0ns Will and a passion for mu,i.
she succeeded in curing herself .h.s '
lutely. She went to see the addict.
because of her interest in them anaS
sympathy for their struggles and tbsj, M
weakness. 'As''
Some idea of the fercenes, Of -,
own fight may be judged from III. q,
lowing account which she gave of v...
happened on the night when sbs c..
grappled with the evil thing tbst -,
her IN its clutch. She calls bsrs.r
Jeanne in the narrative;
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

Central pass beneath the street in
the tunnel Of the railroad. In order
10 avoid electrical disturbances from
there the control room has been COW
cred completely with sheet iron. which
IS grounded, so that the control room
Is isolated electrically.
No "loud speaker" receivers ars
placed within eighty feet of the speaker
on the platform. as in that case the
ioud speaker" sounds and the tones of
.ne speakers voice would play a race,
IN which the sounds from the receiver
would reach the auditor in advance of
inc orators real tones. This is due to
inc iact that the electrical waves travel
a' Tar greater rate of speed than
mere sound waves. If cloud speaker"
receivers were near tho orator the re-
suit would be mere hedlami of sound
as the words overlapped one another.
With the loud speaker" 1t In. possi.
ole at the present time for the spell
o'hder to carry n portable equipment
on motor truck and set II up wherever
he wishes to crate for tho evening.
confident that his number of hearers Is
dependent only upon tho number of
loud speaker" receivers he uscs-~and
the disposition of the populace.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

imagination as does the glamour of
the dreams that come to her when
under morphine. But who is going to
care very much about poor little Mary
Jane? That is the sad part of it.
Affection and sympathy would work
wonders for this girl, one is con-
vinced. 1t was probably loneliness that
sent her off the rails in the first
place.
In striking contrast with Mary Jane
is the we'll dressed school teacher who
is really showing courage and deter
mlnation in coming to the clinic. She
is pale faced woman with unstrung
nerves. She started to take drugs
after an illness, and when she went
back to school she went right on with
them. They helped her in her work.
she says. Her habit has been to get
a months supply of drugs at time,
She found, however, that the mere
fact Of possession put too much of a
strain on her will power, and when
the clinic was opened, she decided to
come to it day after day and try to
reduce the quantities she has been
Using. She is now down to three grains
and expects soon to be able to do
without any. Intelligence and deter
mination are the only successful fac
tors in effecting a cure, she says.
There is certain calculating selfish
ness about the addict He is vastly
concarned about the quieting of his
own craving, but it is rarely that he
takes much interest in the other cases.
except to exchange notes as to how
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

looked like maniacs and others who
whlmpered like infants. A few showed
a quiet, 'sullen resignation that was
strangely portentous-like the dead
calm before storm.
But now, with the regularity of
their supply reestablished, there is
less of the feverish air Of the sick
room about the patients. A careful
system of reducing their doses is in
operation at the clinic The result
is that the majority Of the addicts
are in much better shape than they
were when they first registered for
treatment.
There is something curiously haunt
ing about the addict's eye. Before
his craving has been appeased tthe
pupil is dilated to the fullest extent
When under the influence of the drug
1T narrows until 1t is little more than
pin prick. The sockets are sunken
and emphasized with heavy black cir
cles. The eyeballs protrude and the
patient has singularly CLASSY, vacant
stare.
Practically all the patients are
emaciated. Most of them have loose
mouths, hanging underlip and weak
indefinite chins. 1t takes but a short
period for the drug to wreck havoc
with their bodies. Bent head, wobbly
knees and a lurching gait become
habitual. Cleancut lines Of face and
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
ME spellbinder Of the common. or
garden. variety, as we'll as tho
political speaker Of bigger CALI

bre, will hail the introduction
OF tho loud speaker" telephone at Vic
tory Way during tho Victory r.;bsrtv
Loan campaign as of great moment ~
0rat0ry. The spoken word is powersu,
ana potent. But the spoken words
range has been decidedly limited. 1t
mas been estimated that tho line of fire
OF tho average orator was only abont
eighty feet, or. in other worda HI.
ideas at a closely packed outdoor meet.
ing could be heard intelligsntly by only
about 1000 persons.
Hut with tho use of tho loud sneak
or" sclephons the range Ia practically
l'mitleas. Tho further in any direction
your audience extends the moro tele.
phone receivers OF the loud speaker W.
riesy you usc. Tho result Ia that with
this apparatus an 6utdoor audience of
any size may hear everything that the
speaker says, provided hs speaks clear.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
By lshbel NJ. Ross

N THE seventeen days that have
elapsed since the city Health De-
- partment opened the drug clinic
at 145 Worth Street to meet the
emergency created BY the arrest of doc
aAxs and druggists who had been traf-
ticking in narcotics, some 5000 addicts
have been treated. Out of 424 histories
carefully analyzed and compared it was
found that S03 started to take drugs
from bad association, AZ from pain, 4S
from illness, from curiosity, 12 from
smoking opium, 4 from alcoholism, 2
from insomnia, from dependency
and for pleasure.
There were 367 men and 81 women
3s6 white and 38 colored patients. The
heroin addicts numbered 267, cocaine 2,
morphine 35, morphine and heroin g.,
morphine and cocaine 20 and heroin
and cocaine 8S. The majority of the
addicts were found to be engaged in
the unskilled trades, with transporta-
tion Jobs predominating.
When the nationalities were deter
mined 1t was found that there were
80 Americans, 33 Jews, 26 Germans, %
Irish and II Italians. Some of the ad-
diets had been taking drugs for forty
years; others only few months. The
average was from six to eight years.
This, in effect, constitutes a sum-
mary of the concrete evidence taken at
the clinic by DR.. S. Dana Hubbard, the
physician in charge, and mis- staff Of
volunteer workers. 1t is data of Sec
ondary interest to the vital human his
tories underlying the plain, unvar-
nished facts on the record sheets.
Heroin is the most popular drug and
the most ruthless in its effects. It Is
the most insidious narcotic on which
youth may lay it's hands The number
of juvenile addicts is negligible Twen-
ty-one appears to be the dangerous age.
Most of the addicts form the habit be-
tween seventeen and twenty-five. In
some rare cases mothers transmit it
to their babies. At clinic mother
was found rubbing her one-year- old
haby's lips with morphine.
According to medical and police sta
tistics. there are nearly 100000 drug
addicts in New York City. Eight thou
sand young men were turned down as
unt1t for military service because of
their addiction. At least tenth of
the eases coming before the Court
of speeial Sessions of New York Coun-
W are of this nature.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Scenes
From the
Worth Street
Drug Clinic
to want to fight. She cares only for

to want to fight. She cares onlv for
surcease.
case precisely like this has been
haunting the clinic day after day She
was one of the first to arrive and she
never fails to reappear An elderly
woman, respectable and intelligent. She
realizes that it is all wrong, but per-
sists that, for her at least, it can never
be right again. She will not try cure
"Oh, if could only do something to
stop those girls before they go any
further" she says, indicating a trio
standing near by. "Would you believe
1t, was once q pretty young thing like
that. The boy l loved took drugs. He
taught me how. Later, when began to
go to pieces, he threw me over-said
ne didn't want my kind for wife. That
made me worse. When I married a few
years afterward, my husband didn't
know 1 took drugs. Now he hates me.
ALI my children died in infancy. If I
could only stop those girls 80. %
There are three Of them. Thew all
work in the same store and were first
supplied by "bootlegger." Nice girls
they are-intelligent, and feeling very
badly that they have to expose them
selves by coming to the clinic, but so
III that they can't help it. They can't
work If they don't get heroin and they
are afraid Of losing their jobs. Thew
appear to be just new enough to the
game and sufficiently frightened to
come we'll within the possibility Of
cure.
But around the clinic there is al
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27

ways the insidious suggestion Of the
really bad one. Jaw, g'wanl Don't
you care" whispers the crudely made
up, over-dressed chicken" to a shah
by-looking, weeping girl who evidently
teels Inundated, sick and miserable
at one and the same time. "You come
along with me and I'll get you job
Mary
Jane
No one turns up more faithfully
than a strange little freak who looks
as If she belongs to the first. half
OF the nineteenth rather than the
twentieth century. She is like the
boarding house slavey one sees in
moving pictures and reads about in
fiction. So thin that she appears to
be all bone-a wizened creature barely
five feet tall with thin, struggling hair
that refuses to stay. up, alert green
eyes and vivid Cockney accent. Her
costume consists Of a fantastic as
sortment Of the boarder's various cast
offs. lnvoluntarily one dubs her Mary
Jane. She is immensely impressed
with the grandeur of being an addict
and is continually displaying the nu-
merous syringe pricks on her arm to
any one who cares to look. A deep
welt crosses her brow as if she had
been struck with some weapon. She is
the most pathetic, most uncanny sight
at the clinic, although she doesn't
realize it at all; just little abused
maid who would respond to treatment
II it could be made to appeal to her
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
No Known
Remedy

Medical authorities appear to ba
agreed ttat there Ia ne known seseife
fsmedy for the cure ef drug addiction
= II is more deadly diseasa than can
eer OF tuberculosis. IL IL al pesit;va
IN Its efeets It Ia harder to Withstand
The cocaine habit IL more readily
broken than morphine or heroin, With
intelligent medical direction and the
exercise of will power IL is quite Dos
sible to overcome the craving for
cocaine
The morphine or heroin fend OBJ
serves in disparaging tones: Cocaine
amt no habit" It is his way of say
ing that the craving for cocaine Is
mental. In his own case the desire
Tor narcotics Is purely physical.
particularly low type is repre-
sented in the addcts coming to the
clinic. The great majority of them are
uneducated and unskilled in any line
OF work. Among the odds and ends of
humanity who drift in day after day
are the subnormal, the defective and
the criminal A few professional tvpes
are to be found--a school teacher, four
doctors and journalist And there
are a great many average people, of
fair intelligence and some education.
who started to taks drugs through
sickness or suffering. But no matter
what their class, education or training.
there is strange freemasonry among
them allan understanding of tho high
signs of their companions in misery.
1t Is like the language of the Romany
Rye that inscribes itself on trees and
posts by the wayside, and only the in
1tiated may understand what it means.
flashes of intuition are transmitted
from futtering eyelids. Strange csm-
plnatlons are seen. The professional
man and the down and outer" hobnob
together. The school teacher and the
colored man with the vicious face have
some common ground Of contact. There
IS vague antagonism born out of
suspicion toward the people who are
looking after them. A crafty watch is
kept on the operations of the doctor
""Jo tncy Try TO OutWlt
h'm--to get away with more than their
snare Of the drug. A shambline man
approaches the doctor with his +a,s
OF woe. He can't wait another minute
He Is all in. Subject to fits, too. Dos,
the doctor want him to die nm h;s
hands7 If he'll give him a prescr,r-
sion 4or months supply he'll 20 to
the hospital and have 1t made mn. rh,.
Is clearly the man who wants to oct y
supply of the drug to sell at h,c
profit. Probably not an addict at al,
The doctors are on the lookout for ~.
potential "bootlegger." With those
who snuh heroin it is sometimes hard
70 get incontrovsrtible evidence. The
H'En OF the hypodermic needle is tho
only infailible indication.
tnoss who work with the addict, t,v
20 establish confidence right AZ ~
start. This is no easy matter wssrs
tho moro ignorant are concerned IT,,
are on tho defensive and fcsl nrs,,,
much as they would II hauled into
court Dire necessity drives them
there and they resent that ncesssity
The First
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
The First
Morning

Any one who was at the clinic ths
morning u opened IL net likely to
forget tho sight. An interval h.a
elapsed between the time their old
source Of supply was cut of and tho
now ono established. The result wns
that the men and women who were
sbIe TO reach the clinic wore almost
dsEpsgats. There were some who
New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
Before and
After

There is vast difference between
the addict before and after. Few of
them leave the building without "tak-
ing shot," as they call it. AS soon
as their supply is meted out to them,
they disappear in two separate rooms
Going in they are staggering, yawning,
twitching. Their faces are wan and
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-20
Steel Workers Say They Are
Determined to Quit Work
on Next Monday
REFUSE TO AWAIT
LABOR CONFERENCE
Union Leaders Expect to Tie
Up Steel and Allied Industries
By Striking Now

Pittsburgh, Pa Sept 17.-When
the national committee for organizing
iron and steel workers, which met
here today to consider matters in
connection with the proposed strike
Of steel workers, adjourned tonight
until tomorrow morning, John Fitz-
patrick, chairman of the committee,
made the unequivocal statement that
the walkout would take place next
Monday morning as already decided
upon. He said no action was taken
at today's meeting to postpone the
strike, and that the decision reached
at Washington last week would not
be revoked. Mr.. Fitzpatrick said a
statement would be issued tomorrow
afternoon. The meeting, primarily
called to consider strike plans, dis
cussed the question OF postponing the
walkout until after the industrial con-
ference in Washington beginning Oc-
tober 6, as requested by President
Wilson. Arguments were made
against postponement on the ground
that the steel workers. having gone
so far in their campaign for settle
ment Of grievances by collective bar
gaining. can not turn back.
Few details of the meeting were
permitted to leak out. Samuel Comp
ers, president Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, according to re-
port is not unfavorablc to a postpone
mont if it will not work injury to the
steel workers.
When Chairman Fitzpatrick made
the positive statement that the strike
would go into effect next Monday
morning, he was asked if the strikers
would picket the steel plants.
"No, there will be no .pickcting;; the
men vii, so fishing" he said. 1--WE
wilr leave the mill guards and pro-
fessional gunmen to run the, plants.
A letter from f. II. Gary, chairman
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, to the presidents of subsidiary
companies. made public here today
gives the reasons Of the corporation
for refusing to meet with the union
leaders TO discuss the affairs Of its
employees. The letter added that iii
IS the settled determination OF the
United States Steel Corporation and
!ss subsidiaries that the wages and
working conditions of their employees
shall compare faNorably with the
highest standards of proprIety and
juStice''
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-20
OFFICERS FIND A
STILL IN FLORENCE
Thirty Gallons of Wine Are AL
so Captured

Florence. Sept. 16.-SomcthlnG OF a
sensation was created yesterday when
officers raided the premises at III
Griffin street here and captured 25
gallon capacity still with 80 gallons
of wine. C. E. Granger, an Atlantic
Coast Line freight conductor. was ar
rested and placed in the county jail
on federal and State warrants. He
gave bond late this afternoon and
was released Officers taking part IN
the raid were State Detective Elchel-
berger. Revenue officers Coiman and
Kelly and Sheriff Burch. Later in the
afternoon the officers discovered two
stills on the Loop Road about one
mile from the city and destroyed both
of them. Two negroes were arrested.
Saturday afternoon on Sumter street
in the Northern, part of the city two
complete stilling outfits were captured
and their operators lodged in jail. A
total of five stills in two days work,
three of them being right in the city
of Florence, is considered pretty good
work for Mr. Eichelberger and his as
sistants.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-20

SENATOR CUMMINS
SPEAKS FOR SENATE
Joint Resolution Was Presented
By Former House Speaker
Champ Clark

Washington, Sept. 1S.-Cen. Perish
ing received the thanks Of congress
today for the services which he, his
officers and men rendered during the
world war, at a joint session OF the
senate and house in the chamber Of
the house Of representatives.
Senator CrnIlins president pro
tenpore of the senate, spoke for that
body, extending a hearty welcome to
Gen. Pershing, and referring to the
entry of the American forces into
the war as "the most impressive
spectacle in the annals Of warfare
Speaker Gillett paid Il tribute to
the Americans killed in the war, also
TO the wounded. He said Gen. Per
sl1ing personified 1.-The gallantry', high
purpose and unconquerable determi-
nation Of our crusading army
The joint resolution Of thanks was
offered by Former Speaker Clark.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-20
LABOR CONFER
ENCE DELEGATES
President Wilson Names Twen:
ty-Two Men, to Consider
Problems

San Francisco, Sept. 17.-President'
Wilson made public here tonight the.
names Of the 22 men who will repre-
sent the general public in the national
conference which is to begin in Wash.
ington on October to consider plans
for a. new relationship between. en-
ployer and employee. Twenty-Five
representatives to sit in the confer
ence will be selected later by organ
lied labor, the leading agricultural
associations, investments, bankers and
manufacturers.
On the presidents list of those who
will represent, the publ;cSa are Ber1ard
NJ. Baruch of New York, former
chairman of the war industry board;
Robert S. .Brookings Of st. Louis,
former chairman of the price fixing
committee of that organization, John
D Rockefeller, Jr., Judge Ebert II.
Gary of New York, DR.. Charles = W.
Eliot, president-emeritu of Harvard,
Charles Edward Russell Of New York
and John Spargo of Vermont.
The last two named are Socialist
leaders.
The others on the list are: 0. E.
Bradfute, Xenia,. Ohio, president Ohio
Farm Bureau Federation; Ward Bur-
CESS, Nebraska; Fuller r Galloway,
La Grange, Ca. extensive cotton man
ufacturer; Thomas L. .Chadbourne,
New York: Charles G.. Dawes, CHI
cago; H. 8. Endfcott, Milton, Mass:
Paul L. Feiss, Cleveland; Edwin F.
Cay, Dean Graduate School Of Busi-
ness Administration Harvard Univer-
sity; George R. James, Memphis,
Tenn; Thomas D. Jones, Chicago: A.
A. Landon. Buffalo; E. T. Meredith.
Des Moines, Iowa editor Successful
Farming: Gavin McNab, San Francis
co; L. D. Sweet, Carbondalc, Col, and
Louis Titus, San Francisco.
To each of those selected the pres
ident sent the following telegram:
81 have called a conference at
Washington for October for the
purpose of discussing the labor situa-
ton in the country and the possibility
of formulating plans for the develop
ment of new relationship between
capital and labor. I beg that you
will accept appointment as one OF the
representatives of the 'ral public
in that conference. Tt will be 22
representative of the puu..c and an
equivalent number of representatives
of various bodies Of organized labor
and organized employers. I sincere
" hope that it will be possible for you
to undertake this very important SER
vice. - ~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-20
PACKING
PROPAGANDA
Proposed Regulation Of Meat
Packers Effective-Would
Put Burden of Proof on
Monopoly

The packers are trying to raise a
fog concerning the Kenyon Bill oy
making people think that it would
establish license system" AS a
matter Of act, no such system is in
vo!ved in the bill. Would requiring
:, reckless driver to give bond foi fd-
turc good conduct create a bond
ing SYSTEM" The idea is little short
Of absurd. Obviously, the bond
would be required only of dri:ar
who WAS reckless and would rot
affect those who did not drive auto
mobiles. nor those who did not drive
them recklessly.
The fact concerning the meat pack
ing industry is that i. has been found
to be in the control of monopoly.
This fact has been found by the food
administration and by the federal
;r2de commission. Also. previous
government investigation, long before
the federal trade commission was es-
tahlished, has proved the same TACT.
The question is, how can we make
the antitrust laws effective in stamp
ing out monopoly in the meat packing
industry, and remove the menace OF
a great food trust? We do not want
! TO destroy the meat packers, bat they
must be regulated.
Past experience shows that it has
been almost Impossible to convict the
trust, and when convicted the results
have been small. Therefore, Senators
Kenyon and Kendrick, in drawing
their bills, which are now before the
senate committee on agriculture. have
endeavored to put teeth in them
teeth which will be effective in check
ing monopoly.
They believe that the Investigations
Of the food administration and of
the federal trade commission estab-
! lisil Il prima facie case that monopoly
control exists. Therefore, these. bills
Shift the burden Of proof to the meat
packers. That means that when the
! secretary Of agriculture shall find
! that the meat packers are disobeying
the law he may take prompt action
against them. which action will be
effective unless the packers can prove
; in the courts that the findings Of the
secretary of agriculture are wrong.
To accomplish this the bills provide
that the packers n -.st { through the
form Of taking out license, in which
they agree to live up to the antitrust
laws If they are found to be in
collation. Of these laws, the bills pro-
viGe that The secretary of agriculture
:aa- either suspend or revoke the Ii
! cense The meat packer may then
appeal to the courts and have a full
hearing before action is taken. Thus
he is provided with his day in court" :"
This is not license system like
that enforced by the food administra-
ton, and which has come to be a
bugbcar to so many business men. 1t
is not a precedent for other business
es. 1t is merely a wise provision de-
signed to make it possible to reach
properly and effectively a proven mo-
uopnlA.