The New York herald., 1922-03-05


ticularly dangerous person, an all
round hell raiser. He put a mansard
roof on his career when he kidnapped
the Cudahy boy, son of the meat
packer, and separated the million
aire from $4,000 in gold coin as
ransom.
All of that lies back in the fast dim
ming past, back in the thickening
shadows. Pat Grove Is very differ
ent sort of person nowadays. The
black hair has turned snow white--as
white as the SNOW he denounces
with the fire and fury of his Celtic
tcmperament--and there are half a
hundred tiny wrinkles crossing and
criss-crosspg the pink expanse of his
good natured face.
His physical strength hasn't wasted
a great deal, and Pat would be mean
customer TO handle in an impromptu
rough and tumble. The big change.
the whacfing big metamorphosis. is
In the innards of Patrick-a spiritual
rebirth. The hard boiled egg and
reckless criminal OF 1902 is the gentle,
self-ordained reformer of 1922, tre-
mendously interested in saving boys
and young men from the vicious
habits he sees increasing every day.
'Sleighriding to hell" says Pat Grove,
meaning that the drug habit is increas-
ing steadily and enormously. for Sleigh
riding" is one OF the picturesque words
IN the argot Of the dope fiend. 1t is
good. sound, logical slang. built on con-
structive rules that Lindlcy Murray or
Brander Matthews could scarcely sniff
at (no pun intended) For in this sim
gular argot SNOW means the dope"
the drug for heroin, morphine and co-
caine are az white as the driven snow
and IL suggestion is simple and effec-
tive
When party of addicts. as Grove as
sures us, meet together to Whit them
selves into oblivion the conceit has 1t
that they are on sleighing party, trav-
cling smoothly over the SNOW" And 1t
Is this frightful sleighriding which will
ruin the Republic. asserts Pat Grove,
unless the Government at Washington
takes hold with strong hand.
There are 100000 snow birds In the
ring to the. documents he went over the
other day with Attorneys General Daugh-
crty. They spend between s4,000.oo0
ana $4,000 every day for the dope.
There is no question but that the evil is
spreading or that II will continue to
spread.
Back OF the traffic is an international
ring one or two OF whose members
could almost. name, and they are served
by hundreds OF vicious agents. to whom
human life is absolutely less than moth
ing. They are served by the cunning
OF serpents and the cruelty OF wolves.
"The result Is that the heads OF the
snow ring net something like $4,000, 600
a year profit from the traffic in the
United States alone. This ring Is back
by organized financial interests. Every
day Il spreads crime like pestilence'
For Il price II deals out agonized death.
The heads or the snow ring are greater
criminals than Judas Iscariot Their
vendors are beneath the level OF Whlte
slavers.
Normal human beings have no idea
whatever" pat Grove went on. "of what
goes on in the dope circles OF New YORK
or Chicago. among the big cities, or in
such peculiar communities as Holly
wood. the motion picture center. where
thousands live that are half crazy from
too much easy money and too much no.
toriety. who have exhausted every nor
NAL sensation. But II the evil was con-
fined TO the cities II would not be SO ter
rible to contemplate.
"Tt Ia no longer a city vice. II II
spreading to the small cities and to the
country towns. This Is due In part 10
the returned soldiers, many or whom
had become accustomed to morphine or