The New York herald., 1922-03-05

cocaine in the relief of suffering from
wounds. Some OF 1t is due to the fem
porary visit of young men and young
women, craving excitement in the cities.
And much of it is due to the deliberate
effort OF the Snow Ring to extend its
field of profit-to corrupt the small
towns as the big cities have been pol
soned.
Physicians are in the pay OF the
Snow Ring. Nurses are In Its pay.
Drug stores and young drug clerks that
need money are bought up by the ring.
l am speaking OF the small town, mind
you, not the big city, though the same
is true in the big city. Every devilish
trick and device that can be thought OF
is resorted to by the agents OF the ring
to encourage the use OF dope.
Usually q little cocaine Is suggested
as a local ancsthctic to relieve some
sharp pain. Then little morphine may
be. recommended to overcome nervous
inability to sleep. Then heroin Is intro
duced as Something new and not so
harmful as the old drugs and pretty
soon another victim Is chained to the
galIeys.
I'm the first place" Pat Grove con-
tinucd, Il recommended to the Attorney
General that there be a Federal investi-
gation-Congression the drug
evil in America. find the Government
authorities impressed with the facts and
statistics that / laid before them. think
a resolution will be introduced in Con-
grcss before long asking for an investi-
CATION. The next step will be correc-
tive and constructive.
1T may be that the Government will.
in the end, have to construct and main
tain santariums. one on the Pacific coast,
one on the Atlantic coast, one on the
southwest coast, one In the Central
States and one on the southeast coast or
section. for curing the nations drug ad-
diets, thus making it more difficult Tor
the Snow Ring to extend Its terrible
traffic, a traffic that Is actually and posi-
lively threatening the very fiber OF the
nations manhood.
Il believe and have recommended to
the United States Government that a
million farms of forty acres. or less be
provided by the Government from what
arc now waste and unimprovcd lands.
and that the Government spend whatever
Is necessary to put these lands In shape
for cultivation, and then offer them on
long time and easy terms to a million
young men coming year by year into
manhood
More than rs per cent. of the crimes
committed in the United States would
never have been perpetrated IL youths
had had the proper opportunity and en-
vironment Every year. II may interest,"
you TO know, 100000 persons. 100000 OF
them neglected lads, are committed to
various terms of Imprisonment by the
courts OF this COMMUNICATIONS of eco
nomic conditions
"rhere Is dire necessity OF immediate
correctional methods before the crime or
misdemeanor has been committed. Put
the excess boys on farms. Encourage
them. II necessary use little duress.
Keep them in the open. Make them pro-
duce. Then the Snow Ring will lose its
recruits and the vice will be stamped
out as snake Is killed.
"State reforma tories are no good for
correcting youths. They have failed to
function for the good OF society. Usu-
ally they inculcate vice rather than i'm
plant virtue The boy comes out worse.
not better. State and city institutions
do not know how TO treat and cure the
drug habit. Usually they increase the
craving.
mo: these reforms must be accom-
plished, like most other big things In
these days. by the strong. efficient CEN
tral Government. There Is no other
hope.
ITO get this done have devoted my
life. Before I die I want to see the
Snow Ring ruined, its leaders rotting in
fail and its agents shot down by police
men or sent away for long terms.
want to see Federal farms in small plots
offered to the American youth seeking
opportunity and trembling between vice
and virtue. There are so many things ]
want to see--me. the old time crook"