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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

figure soon become blurred and in
distinct. Compilations are ruined and
the haunting eyes are more and moro
emphasized.
The girls are more to be pitied than
the men, for, strangely enough, they
seem to be less impressed with the
seriousness of what they are doing.
Certainly, they are more reluctant than
are the men to undergo the fatigue and
struggle Of trying to be cured
Take the case Of the pretty young
girl Of twenty, whose work has exposed
her to doubtful association. She re-
CARDS the taking of drugs as she would
cigarette notwithstanding rather
smart to do. 1t is soothing to the
senses, and if she hasn't travelled very
far along the road Of the addict. it is
still primrose path" on which she is
straying, quite happily, and without
having any particular desire to leave it.
Another woman who has said good
by to her youth, estranged her hus-
band, lost the respect of her friends
and her own self-esteem, regards it
differently. She would give anything to
retrace her steps; anything to have
her chance over again. She has been
addicted for twenty years, and sees
nothing ahead Of her but spasmodic
relief from ever-increasing doses-or
death. She has gone too far to fight or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

The acceptance Of tho offer which
followed meant the placing of 1oe
loud speaking" receivers from Forty
sixth to Forty-ninth Street, along
Park Avenue, Victory Way extending
from Forty-fifth to Fiftieth Street. The
receivers are strung above the heads
of the audience, twenty feet apart.
On the speakers stand, midway be-
tween Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth
streets on the east side of Park Ave-
nue., Is a small and extremely SEN
sitive transmitter--so sensitive that
the speaker does not have to speak
into 1t, but may wander about his plat
form at will without impairing the ef-
feet OF his speech among those audi
tors who are to hear it only through
a loud speaker" receiver.
Tho orator talks. The sensitive
transmitter on the platform -carries
tho electric current whose variations
represent tho speech to tho control
room back OF tho spcakcr'a stand. Hare
tho amplfication apparatus givcs tho
current far greater power, as IL Ia shot
out of the cloud speaker" receivers.
These receivers are very sensitive telc-
phone receivers Of special design with
large mcgnphones or horns which make
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

tho speech audible to tho audience
standing below.
So much for the use of the cloud
speaker" in making a present orator
audible to persons beyond his natural
voice range. The sending of a speech
from Washington involves much more.
IN the Treasury Department BUILDING
IN Washington is installed a telephone
set for the use of the speaker in Wash
lngton and also loud speaker" re-
celver that he and others with him in
the Treasury Department room NAV
hear the applause and the comments
OF the audience in New York.
Three wire circuits are involv.d IN
the work of carrying the speech from
washington to Victory Way. To H.
lustrate the process:
Tho speaker in Washington talks into
or near his transmittcr. The current
Is carried to Philadelphia, where It il
gwen greater strength to carry II on
to New York. In Victory Way IL il
"mplihed again and sent TO tho "loud
speaker receivers, 80 that tho audi
enee hears it just IA they do n speaker
Oh the Platform of Victory Way.
During tho progress of the campaiyn
a'rplancs and dirigibles manmuvrs
overhead The speaker on tho Mat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Last AID to Orators-The Loud Speaking Telephone

ly and distinctly. 1t cannot mako a
good speaker out of poor elocutionist
Hence the delight of the professional
orator.
The possibilities Of the loud speaker
however, arc by no means confined to
an extension Of tho range of the orator
present in person at a meeting. The
audience can hear with equal ease the
speaker who talks in Washington or
any other city If tho proper telephone
communications are established be-
tween citizen.
Tho installation at Victory Way was
made by the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Western
Electric Company without cost to tho
Government Loan organization. Presi-
dent Theodore N. Vail, OF the Bell
System, wrote to benjamin Strong,
Governor Of tho Second Federal Re-
Scrve District Bank and chairman OF tho
Liberty Loan Committee, long in adj
vance Of tho campaign, offering to plnc
tho equipment and trained mon 10
operate 1t in Victory Way az a con-
tribution 10 the success OF tho cam.
paign.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

much they get, how much they can
stand, and so on.
So that the following story of what
happened at the clinic the other day
is somewhat remarkable. A woman
dragged herself in, hatless, and with
her hair streaming down her back-an
utter wreck. There was agony in her
eyes. She came too late. There are
stated hours for treatment, and the
dispensing of drugs had ceased for the
time being. She broke down utterly
and wept as if her heart would break.
so keen was her disappointment. Half
shyly, half reluctantly, youth walked
over to her and gave her his precious
little box of drugs. Plainly, it cost him
a lot to do it. But the woman was in
such dire distress that he overcame
his own desire. She grabbed it and
rushed madly into the room where the
patients take their dose, without even
waiting to say "Thank you" Ten min
utes afterward she came out with
flushed cheeks, steady steps and quiet
eyes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Dur Drug Addicts and What We Are Doing for Their

pale. A cold, clammy sweat A..
from their skin. Coming out, thew , ~'s.
upright. with steady knees ana sss
footsteps. The aspen ouiver,a- 'sH
passed off for the time being NJ, ny
eyes are less sunken, but the ,n ~
are already narrowing. Their o sspa
are flushed and their skin ;s +..
ent as a consumptive's. They fesl f -
doing things in their temporary .x ,'a
|-aration. They have entered w. sAa'''
only halcyon they know. It !, Nv 'as
lived, but they are content-,. AOf''
time being. " 'ns
The amount Of stuff that tn. .as..
can stand varies largely with his ns 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 CO.,
is the story of the magazin. 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,
weakness. 'As''
Some idea of the fercenes, Of -,
own fight may be judged from III. q,
lowing account which she gave ~ W..
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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 cloud 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 ~
inc orators real tones. This il due to
inc iact that the electrical waves travel
az 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.
ne 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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-
WINGED. 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 outdoor audience of
any size may hear everything that the
speaker says, provided hs speaks clear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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
taxa and druggists who had been traf-
ticking in narcotics, some 5000 addicts
have been treated. Out of 424 histories
carefully analysed and compared it was
found that 300 started to take drugs
from bad association, AZ from pain, 4S
from illness, from curiosity, ~ 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 heron
and cocaine 8S. The majority of the
addicts were found to be engaged in
the unskilled trades, with Transporter
ton Jobs predominating.
When the nationalities were deter
mined 1t was found that there were
80 Americans, 33 Jews, &c 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 Special Sessions of New York Coun-
W are of this nature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 acknowledgment, 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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
feels 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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
No Known
Remedy

Medical authorities appear to ba
agreed that there Ia 20 known seseife
fsmedy for the cure at 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 il 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 Tor 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 il 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 necessity
The First
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
The First
Morning

Any one who was at the clinic this
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 wan
that the men and women who were
sbIe TO reach the clinic wore almost
dsEpsgats. There were some who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 melted out to them,
they disappear in two separate rooms
Going in they are staggering, yawning,
twitching. Their faces are wan and
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-16
DAVIS
TESSA MAJOR. Correspondent

Mrs .. II. Nelson. Mrs. Richard
Rice and Miss Sue Findley were SUI
phur visitors Sunday.
Miss Elsie Crews came home Monday
from Stratford, her school having
closed on Friday.
Mrs. :. A. Maxwell of Tulsa, who
has been visiting her mother Mrs
o. G. Moore left Monday.
Mrs. W. y. Lewis entertained the
senior class and anumber of friends
Monday afternoon with u party. an
| nouncing the engagement Of Miss An
| ME Bessie Whitson and Harold Il,
| Stearns of Fort Worth, Texas, the
marriage to take place at Fort Worth
on May 23rd.
The senior class rendered a very
enjoyable program at the high school
auditorium Monday afternoon.
Mrs. /. n. Brown has as a guest,
her mother. Mrs. NJ. y. Harrison of
Ardmore and her sister Mrs. w. ..
Brown, of Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Q. H. Deel arrived Monday
from Fort Worth to visit her sister,
Msr. j. +. Ellis.
Mrs. owen Richardson and Mrs. Il.
l.. Terrence were in Ardmore Tues.
day shopping.
Mrs. NJ. T. Easter. Mrs. j. +. Ellis
wood Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Y. Chitwood return
ed Monday from Fort Worth.
Miss Hazel Richardson came up on
Tuesday from Ardmore to visit her
aunt, Mrs. X. l.. Freeman.
X. X. Shaffer returned to Desdemon
ia, Texas, Wednesday morning.
Clifford Turner was here from Nor
man. the first of the week to see home
folks
Mrs. l.. Il. Turner's guests, Mrs. NJ
c. II. Mcdonald of Ringing and H.
NJ. Kidwell of Ringing left for their
homes Tuesday at noon.
Ira Mccain of Pauls Valley. was
here Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garland Dodson return
ed Monday from Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Shackelford was hel'e from Wyn-
newood Tuesday.
Odus Ford is here from Fort Worth
this week.
j. b. Stone of Celina, Texas, came
in Tuesday to see his cousin J. $. b.
Mulkey.
Mrs. o. NJ. Francis and Mrs. w. a.
Allen entertained the seniors with a
party Tuesday night. at the home of
Mrs. Francis.
Mrs. a. +. Brown and Mrs. T.. b.
Turner will entertain the seniors Wed
nesday might at the home of Mrs
Brown.
Mrs. e. a. Clifton is giving a mis-
cellaneous shower Wednesday after
noon for Miss Annie Bessie Whtson.
Mrs c. II. Parks was over from Sui
phur Monday to attend Mrs. w. n
Lewis party.
Mrs A. l.. Smith has returned to
Wichita Falls, Texas
r. l.. Freeman is out of town on
business.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-16

Before the war the term bread was
understood TO mean bread made from
ordinary wheat flour. During the war
it might have meant almost anything
on which TO spread butter or its substi-
tutes. But what does it mean now?
At the time of the food administra.
ton called for the use of substitutes
in the manufacture of bread, 50 much
publicity was given the ruling that the
chances of 4 purchaser being deceived
into believing that the article he car
ried home from the bakery as bread
was made wholly from wheat flour
were slim; and no objection was made
under the food and drugs act to the
labelling and sale of the product, con-
forming to the food Administrations
rulings as bread.
The restrictions on the use of wheat
flour in bread have recently been re-
moved, and any product now sold under
or labeled with the unmodified term
bread should if brought within the
jurisdiction of the act. be prepared from
wheat flour only, says the United
States department Of agriculture, which
enforces the food and drugs act If
wheat flour substitutes are used, their
presence should be clearly stated on
the label. The same principle applies
in the case of crackers.