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New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

condition and lack of available COM
petent handling Of it, occupy posi-
tions of highest responsibility, great
personal achievement, honor and re-
spect. Some of our best and finest
and best men and women are un-
suspected sufferers from addiction
disease, constantly seeking relief
and understanding help, praying for
the day when enlightenment shall
come, and they, if revealed as adj
dlcted, shall not be stigmatized as
dope Hands" and classed with Grim
mails and degenerates to social. per-
sonal and economic disgrace and det
riment.
These worthy people are not
psychlatric nor correctional cases
nor problems. They have con-
tracted their addiction disease
through medical and therapeutic
administration of narcotic drugs. abb
solutely through no fault nor con-
sclousness of their own. Their adj
dictlon is solely and absolutely a
physical condition--the body mech
anlsm invariably established in .anv
red blooded animal by the sufficient
ly prolonged administration of
opiate drugs.
The presence of a physical mech
anlsm in the development and pro-
ductlon of some substance circula-
ting IN the blood and causing the
symptoms and physical signs and
Phenomena of addiction disease must
no" be scientifically accepted as the
best explanation of the condition. 1t
is Indicated by every clinical mani
festatlon and has been demonstrated
by competent and authoritative and
responsible experimentation upon
laboratory animals.
Inc sooner the established facts
OF the fundamental physical basis
and reactions of the addiction state
become matters Of medical and pub-
ilc neaith education, the earlier there
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Not Peculiar 10 Underworld

1t ran be incontrovertibly estab-
lished that the class and personal
manifestations of those degenerate
or defective, psychically subnormal
or abnormal, who happen to have
developed this addiction disease, and
of the true criminal or underworld y
types which have acquired it, arc
not intrinsic to the disease nor char
acteristic of sufferers from it.
Addiction-disease has existed in
mentally, morally and psychically
normal individuals in all walks of
life to much greater extent than
it has in the so-called underworld. >
upon which attention and spectacu-
lar publicity have so largely been TO-
oussed.
1t is unfortunate that the atten-
ton Of the public, and even of the
scientific professions, has been dis
tracted by and focused upon spec
tacular manifestations and ire
sponsible actions exhibited by some
Of those who are addicted to mar
cotics, and in whom, in most cases
the responsibility antedated the
addiction or was simply a coincident
result of environment and circum-
stances Of life and not a character
istic manifestation of narcotic drup
use.
responsibility, degeneracy anc
deterioration arc not essential ol
even characteristic attributes of tbs
narcotic drug addict. They are en-
tirely absent in very large numbers
if not majority, of those afflicted
with this disease, many of whom
forced to conceal their affliction be-
cause Of popular conception of this
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Effort Must Be ORGANIZED

Those who are Interested in pros
tuition and in so-called white
slavery would do well to turn their
attention to the chains forged by
the suffering and fear If suffering
experienced by those who have de-
veloped narcotic drug disease.
1t is this class of youthful ad-
diets that has so alarmingly il
creased since the enforcement Of
the various narcotic laws. For this
increase, however, the laws them
selves are not so much to be blamed
as IS the totally inadequate meet
ing OF the clinical and therapeutic
and educational needs of the situa-
ton. There has been practically
no organized scientific, medical or
public health activity. so far as |
know, directed toward the clinical
and laboratory investigation of this
disease - toward a dispassionate
review, analysis and testing out OF
the truths and errors of It's litera-
ture; toward an investigation of
the scientific and other qualifica-
tions ana experience of those whose
utterances or writings influence
medical and lay opinion and action;
toward the establishing of patho-
logical and physical facts and re-
actions and of clinical symptoma-
tology and phenomena as funda-
mental bases for its rational hand
ling and therapeutics, and for prac-
tical education of the public as to
its safferings and dangers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Definite Physical Disease

1t IS now a matter of established
record and proof that narcotic drug
addiction is fundamentally a physi-
cal disease condition presenting
definite and constant clinical symp-
toms and signs and invariable and
characteristic physical phenomena,
and that it has associated with it
and especially with its unskilful
handling-some of the most agoniz-
ing suffering known to humanity.
No theory of drug addiction
based on inherent mental degen-
eracy or deterioration no exposi-
ton or explanation of circum-
stances, situations or conditions as
sociated with or incidental to mar
cote drug addiction can any longer,
in the light of easily available and
easily corroborated testimony of
record and competent authority, be
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Worst Erils Of Situation

The worst evils Of the narcotic
situation are not, as is widely
taught, rooted in the Inherent de-
pravity and moral weakness Of those
addicted. They find their origin in
opportunity created by ignorance
and neglect and fear for commercial
and other exploitation of the physi-
cal suffering resulting from denial
of narcotic drug to one addicted.
The many widely advertised and in
trlnsically unworthy drug cures
derive their prosperity from the
desperate desire of the narcotic
addict to be cured of the conditions
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Long horn anti
aircraft set

who are to become engineer officers.
1t will also be place for post
graduate work and educational re-
freshment for all army engineer Of
tcers. Engineer reserve officers vii.
come here for further training de-
signed to adapt their previous educa-
ton, experience and knowledge to
military uses. The same will be true
of engineer officers Of the National
Guard. But, more than this, the en-
gineer school will be school for all
the officers of the army. Every Of
fcer nowadays must be something Of
an engineer, whether his service be
with the cavalry, the infantry or the
artillery.
On the civil benefit side, the West
Pointers who are to go forth to build
the nations great engineering works.
as in the past, Will be far better pre-
pared than hitherto. At Camp Hum
phreys they will be able to get not only
further technical education, but the
actual work they Will have an oppor-
tunity to do there, both in a labora-
tory sense and as participants in the
construction that will be going On
there for decades, will not make it
necessary for them to get their expe-
rience in the costly way they do now
The reserve and national guard eng-
neer officers will perform their ordinary
civil functions the better for the in
spiration and stimulation they will re-
ceive at Humphreys.
The college of military research
will be an institution for the unend-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

spectacular publicity, the youths
fall easy prey to the agents, male
and female, of the drug traffickers.
The trafiickers' intended consumma-
ton is reached when these youths
finally become, to their surprise and
CONSERVATION, through the develop
ment of addiction-disease and physi-
cal dependence upon narcotic drugs,
enforced and permanent customers,
and IN some cases virtual slaves.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

I not be far from true, that there
are as many sufferers from mar
cotic drug addiction as from tuber-
culosis.
1t is now beyond all question
that narcotic drug addiction has
existed for many years, an entirely
inadequately appreciated medical
and public health problem of great
Importance.
1t is now matter of established d
fact that description of narcotic
drug addiction as "habit," "vice,"
morbid appetite" etc, absolutely
fails to give any competent con-
ception of its true characteristics
and. clinical phenomena.
That the terms drug habituate"
or drug fend' have been so gen
orally applied to and so commonly
accepted as descriptive of those
afflicted with this condition is con-
elusive proof of general scientific
neglect of it, of apathy and indif-
ference toward it and of wide
spread ignorance concerning it.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
By Theodore M. Happen

+ dreams come true, the new army
Of the United States, which is to
be an army always at school, will
have its educational Mecca at
Camp Humphreys, Va. The present
great engineering cantonment, hastily
established during the war, will be-
come the apex of the military eduea-
tional system. 1t will be the University
of the Army. Here the whole engineer
ing personnel will be trained, educated
and "post-educated," from privates to
generals, and here will come in rota-
ton all the West Point graduates, all
the officers of the regular army, all the
reserve officers and all the National
Guard officers to learn those engineer
ing matters that all officers should
know in an age when wars are wars of
engineering, in the broadest sense.
Camp Humphreys is about eighteen
miles down the Potomac from Wash
ington. 1t is only two or three miles
from Mount Vernon and is on part o.
the old Lord Fairfax estate. Her
George Washington had his first prac
tlce In surveying and all the countr5
roundabout is historic. During the way
thirty or forty thousand engineering
troops were gathered here for training
q. a technical as we'll as militia
nature. This cantonmcnt was equippee
with much machinery and engineerin
apparatus for instructional purpose
and much more resulted from the build
ing by the troops of a standard gaug
railway to connect the camp with tn
outer world and also from the construc
ton of twenty miles of service or in
dustrial railway within the camps g.
400 acres.
1t is to-day we'll equipped techn-
cal school, but with the primitive
housing of hurried wartime con-
struction.
10 get proper understanding of
what the army university at Humph-
reys is to be, it is necessary to grasp
the fact that Secretary of War Baker
has established an entirely new cor.
ception Of what the regular army OF
and Congress has already approved
by appropriating S5,OO0,OO0 even in this
year of scrimping whoever enlists in
the army in the future will also ma
circulate in school.
The university to be established at
Camp Humphreys will be the capstone
in this educational system. In its
higher divisions it will be largely mill
tary in its purposes. but there also it
will be directly and largely contribu-
tive to national wellbeing In it's
lower grades it will become the great
est technical school in America and
the only one in which some thngs-as
for instance, railroad construction and
operating-will be taught 1t will be
more than free, for all its pupils will
draw pay from the government
The educational scheme that is to be
cealized at Camp Humphreys consists
of:
First-An engineer school.
Second-A college of military re-
search.
Third-Vocationa schools.
The engineer school will be prima-
rily for military engineering education,
but it will inevitably have beneficial
effect on the industrial life OF the
country. 1t will provide a post
graduate course for the West Pointers
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
hing a New Army University on the Potomac

and baking, the principles Of sewers.
and water supply, forestry, etc h.
sides such military engineering as -.
construction of temporary and ao..;.,~
bridges, trenches, bombproofs and :
on.
II is purposed to keep two enyioss.
regiments at Humphreys all the finn.
One Of them will be fixed garrison
unit and the other VIII be scbos,
regiment. The latter VIII be the .,
ganization medium Of the soldier e.,.
dents. Through il will come and o.
continuous stream of men who will be
looking forward to the end Of thar
enlistment as also the time of gradu.
ton. Their three years will make tbsr,
masters of many trades and will c;ve
them besides d good general academic
education. From that they may % bac.
to gainful occupations in civil life a,
they may, # ambitious, go on. earn
commission and receive a complete en-.
ginecring education.
It is not at all likely that many n,
the thousands of men who will finally
be graduated from Humphreys will
spend all their three years there. Thev
VIII receive part of their training in
the various camps and posts TO which
their military units may be assigned
but ii is hoped that all Of the enlisted
engineers VIII eventually come to
Humphreys for the conclusion of then
education. When on duty elsewhere
they Will in a sense be in the Hum.
phrys University extension. and in due
time they will get to headquarters, re.
ceivc their final touches and 20 GU,
into the world or back into the army
as members of the Class of '25 or some.
thing else at Humphreys.
With laboratory equipment, tempo
rary buildings and field work opportu.
mites as legacy from the war. the Army
University at Humphreys is ready TO
begin functioning at any time and will
for the permanent buildings and
grounds that now exist only on paper.
1t is intended to locate these at the
south end of the reservation, over
looking the Potomac, beyond the pres
ent camp. They are designed TO cos,
ultimately not less than sS0.0oo,O0O.
but the first unit will require onlv
s2,000.0o0 and the rest can come gradu-
ally, the wooden buildings OF the camp
being used in the mean time. This
military campus will include groups Of
buildings for the engineer school, the
college of military research, the six
teen vocational schools, the barracks
and other buildings of the regimental
post and the staff village. Messrs.
flanagan and Daniels have had the
assistance in their planning work Of
two reserve officers who have won
high renown in civil life as architects,
viz, Major H. L. Ribbon and Major
H. B. Price, of New York.
The details of the manner in which
Humphreys will articuate with the
educational side of the military estab-
lshment in all its aspects have not
yet been fully determined. and much
will depend on the nature of the per-
manent military organization ard the
future attitude of Congress, but the
seed has been planted and there is
little doubt that the army of the future
Will be an army school. with Hum
phreys as its educational centre and
capital.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

present narcotic drug situation and
in the failure Of most strenuous
efforts at its control.
Delay in the accomplishment of
this education is responsible for
much of what has seemed to be
erroneous and unfortunate in leg
islation and administration, and has
left us to-day, after years of effort
along other lines, with practically
no competent or adequate facili-
ties for instruction or treatment,
no common ground of authorita-
lively established and generally ap-
preciated fact as basis for COM
petent and intelligent procedure.
AS a definite clinical entity of
physical disease, addiction is prac-
tically untaught in the school and
unappreciated by the average med
ical man. The medical profession
has as whole ignored the subject
as clinical study or laboratory
investigation.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
'egIect Worked for Spread

Neglect of this fundamental need
of education concerning the physi-
cal facts of addiction disease has
been the most important factor in
the continued spread of this dis
case, in the development Of the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
By Ernest S. Bishop, Md,
F. A. G. P


York Polytechnic Medical School and
Hospital.
N 1916, in a paper on ''The
Rational Handling of the Mar
cotlc Addict" prepared at the
request of Martin I. lilbert,
of the United States Public Health
Service, and read at the annual
meeting of the American Medical
Association, ! stated in conclusion :
There is urgent need for wide
spread and early education of the
medical profession, legislators, ad-
ministrative authorities and laitv
into the facts of addiction-disease
Until narcotic addiction is widely
appreciated and taught as a definite
disease and facilities are provided
for clinical demonstration and in
struction and for laboratory ex-
perimentation, we cannot hope for
Intelligent handling of the narcotic
addirt, nor for solution Of the ma
tional drug problem"
The need for the above is no less
to-day than it was when my paper
sas written. Education concern
ing the material physical facts of
addiction-d disease is the fundamen-
tai essential in arresting further
unnecessary spread of narcotic
drug addiction and in repairing as
far as possible the damage already
done.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

tions. The advance of science will
here be continually connected up with
the eternal purpose of keeping the
army ready to fight with the aid of
all that science and art can contrib
ute.
The vocational schools to be in
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

stalled at Camp Humphreys will COM
mand the most popular interest. They
will constitute the peoples side Of
the university, In them the enlisted
men of the engineers will be taught
surveying. electrical mechanics, elec-
trcity, machine shop work, carpentry,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

photography, printing. mapmaking
biacksmithing. lithography. railroad
construction and operation, rigging.
stenography.. steam engineering, gas
engineering, automotives, acetylene
welding, mechanical and free hand
drawing, highway construction, cooking
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

will be rational and practical con-
slderation of narcotic addiction and
a beginning of the solution of the
narcotic drug problem.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

regarded as worthy of any consid-
Grafton which ignores or does not
completely take into account the
established facts and the physical
sufferings Of narcotic drug addic-
ton disease.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-11

Mrs. c.. wv. Hewitt motored to
Arcadia and back, Monday after.
noon. AS compagnon de voyge
she had with her Mesdames j. n
Skies, C. c. Carleton and A. P,
Jordan.
Harry Dreggors, who cleared
more than $4,000 from twelve
acres Of vegetables last year, is
now preparing twenty acres. to
put in peppers, cukes and toma-
toes.
Mrs. John Rasch, on Tuesday,
suffered stroke of paralysis that
crippled her from her knees to her
feet, and she has since been I'M
able to walk. Her many friends
deeply sympathize with her.
Mrs. j. j. Clark and Mrs. j.
Doris Of Lecsburg, Fla, arrived
here yesterday and are visiting
the formers daughter, Mrs. g..
Nv. Gatewood. Mrs. Doris is a
cousin of Mrs. G. w. Gatewood.
Mrs. Will Lea and little daugh-
ter, having enjoyed visit of sew
eral weeks here to Mrs. Sophia
Jermain in Solana, returned Tues
day morning to their home in
Tampa.
Zolfo's banker, j. E. Skipper,
came here Saturday night and re-
NAMED till Sunday afternoon Wis
iting his wife and children, who
are visiting Mrs. Shippers par
'ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. n. Skies,
G. A. Skipper and G. E. Lanier,
able bankers of Avon Park, came
here in their car, Tuesday after
noon, attended that night a meet
ing of the directors of the First
National Bank, and went home
yesterday.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-11

Mrs. Mary k. Rankin is exnoot
ed home from st. Cloud tomor
row.
T. G. Grassland has just received
a carload of lumber for buildino
and repairing boats.
Miss Louise Gautier visited
Miss Eloise civilians at Fort 90.
den, Saturday and Sunday.
Everybody please bear in mind
that the last pages of The Herald
now go to press Wednesday night
Cephas Keen is building a nice
cottage at the corner of Cross
and King streets.
Manager J. N. Silks of the
Southern Utilities Co., accompan
led by his son, JAS. F. Skies, visit
ed Arcadia, on business Tuesday
Hemstitching, pecot edge, GOV
cred buttons, braiding. = THE
ELITE SHOP, Is Arcade. Fort
Myers, Fla.
Adam Silcox has taken the con
tract for bringing the Cleveland
children by auto to the Punta Cor
da school.
Harry r. Dreggors went tc
Jacksonville yesterday; dom,
know when he will return to-
morrow, perhaps.
| Mrs. c. Y. Blanchet went t.
Jacksonville, Monday, to pay {
month s visit to her daughter
Mrs. John l.. Blanchet.
People abroad are writing tc
The Herald for a list Of rooms anc
houses to rent here. Not one i
advertised in this paper; consc
quently, we can't furnish q list
Jack Waltmlre has arrived II
! the United States fro mthe battle
fields Of Europe, and is expected
home here soon. He will be
warmly welcomed.
Mrs. H. L. DotSOn and son
Henry Dotson, left on Monday
afternoon for Benton Harbor
Mich, to visit relatives and
friends.
Instead Of the usual services,
the Epworth League will offer a
special program in the Methodist
church Sunday night at $50 o.
clock.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-11

The Herald works for Florida,
DeSoto county and Punta Gorda,
AND FOR THOSE WHO AID
VERTlSE IN ITS COLUMNS.
High winds prevailed here near
ly all Of yesterday, and in the
afternoon they were followed by
a heavy rain. Fair weather is ex-
pected today.
The Punta Gorda Fish Co. are
now having the steamer Harris
Brothers made new. Six or
eight carpenters are giving her
the finishing touches.
Miss Thelma johnson, after en-
Joying the summer in that aristo-
cratic resort, Asheville, N. C., re-
turned last week and is attending
our high school.
Mrs. Hulda Evans of Cleveland,
has moved into the Barber cottage
on Cross street near Olympia
avenue where she expects to re-
main during the school term.
Mrs. E. johnson of Sanibel, and
Mrs. J, B. Huffman of Captiva,
came up on the Gladys, Tuesday,
1.-THE former going from here to
Tampa for a visit.
DR.. G. S. Honeywell went to
| Orlando yesterday to attend the
annual conference of the Seventh
Day Adventists, which meets IN
that city today.
Miss Alice Goulding of the fac
Iulty of the Fort Myers Public
school, spent Saturday and Sun
day at home with her parents in
this city.
Mrs. j. L. Chandler of Charlotte
Harbor, went to Arcadia, Satur-
day afternoon, and spent Sunday
there visiting her daughter, Mrs.
John Scott.
The Wednesday afternoon holi-
day, during which most of our
business houses have been closing,
has been discontinued until next
summer.
It was an erroneous report that
Mrs. Emmett Adams had moved,
as she is still living on Goldstein
street next to the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. S. |. Huffman.
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LOCAL, ITEMS

The equinox is near.
Every page local page.
Punta Gorda, tourists rendez,
VOuS.
Delightful autumnal weather ar
rived here this week.
A lively winter season is il
prospect hefe.
Visitors are coming-let's make
the town attractive.
Hon. Cyril Baldwin of Arcadia,
county tax collector, was here Oh
official business, Saturday.
Fruits, candies, connections and
fancy groceries are specialtics at
r. NJ. Kings (adv.)
S. n. Cornwall, well known con-
tractor, was here Saturday and
Sunday.
Manager Sealey of the Semin-
ole Hotel, visited Arcadia, Mon
day.
E. It. Johnson Of Fort Ogden,
was here on a business visit, Mon
day.
10000 Ruby King pepper plants
for sale for immediate delivery
j. r. ELLIOTT. lady. )94tf.
FEED, FERTILIZERS AND
CRATES. - L. vi. WRITTEN,
AGENT. Oath
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-11

Senator Cooper and Messrs. W
H. Koon and T. G. Crosland, rep
resenting Punta Gorda, and l.. L.
Barnhill, representing Charlotte
Harbor, went up to LWauchula,
Tuesday morning, to join a dele
cation from that city and meet
with representatives of Moore
Haven and Sebring, when .qucs-
tons of paramount Importance to
the several sections of the county
represented were to be discussed
and plans laid for a final deter
mination at the polls in the ap-
preaching political campaign.
Coe Allen, older son of Mrs, F.
NJ. Copper, another boy of whom
all Punta Gorda is justly proud,
returned Sunday noon from war
Scared Europe. He was amongst
the first from here to answer his
countrv's call and he served well
and long in the cause of freedom
and democracy. His safe return
home to friends and loved ones
was naturally an occasion for re-
ioicing; and the same cordial wei
come was given him that is given
all our boys returning from the
war.