Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-25
THE provisions Of the Harrison Mar.
L cotic Act are based on the assump-
ton that If drug addicts can be pre-

l. cOtic ACT are Dased on the aSsump.
ton that If drug addicts can be pre-
vented from getting their
drugs the drug evil will
Cure for be ended. DR.. Edward
Opiafs Hun ington Williams,
Addiction in "Opiate Addiction"
(The Macmillan c o m
pany), says that this Is
a wrong assumption and that the Har-
rison Act is based on a wrong theory.
Drug taking is not a crime, he says,
but "A disease. Although the Harrison
Act has been enforced In good faith
there are just as many drug addicts as
before 1t became a law. DR.. Williams
discusses in his preface the proposition
that anti drug legislation should recog-
nize that the drug addict needs medical
and not criminal treatment just as med
ical treatment is needed for the treat
ment Of the insane. In the course Of
his book he discusses what he regards
% the proper treatment. After a long
chapter devoted to study Of the nature
ual reduction method with the rapid
reduction method and the various hyp.
notes useful in treating the insomnia
Of the patients. It 10 a book which
should be suggestive to the student Of
the subject.
THE use Of the story Of the Passion
l. 40 q background for q secular 70.
nance has its drawbacks as we'll as its
certain compensa tions.
The projection Of t h 9
Ckvtst story of Christ into fc-
IN q Novel tion always makes for
a religious atmosphere
that sometimes lifts n
tale to q plane much higher than 1t Is
entitled to on its own merits. This IL
the case with Revelation" (Boni &
Liveright), In which Dulcie Deamer
tries to retell episodes Of the life OF
Christ in Z purely human setting.
At the bsst II must be said for the
author that she has cloaked much Of
her story with painstaking reverence.
but never has she been able to give def
mite feeling Of the colorful East, and
her word pictures Of Roman orgies lose
all the glamour Of word beauty and
seem simply tawdry.
lines Of such romances. A young Jew
falls in love with beautiful slave
girl. It 10 the time of Christ. The
girl IL rescued from Herod's palace; is
raised from the dead by the Master,
who again saves her from beina stoned
BY the mob. Then follows the story
OF the Cruci6xion told about 40 4
modern newspaper reporter would tell
II. And finally an unhappy ending;
with the saving solacs Of religious
atmosphere.
ERANK TANNENBAUM knows the
Il inside Of prisons from personal
experience. After the armistice he led
mob Of unemployed
into a New York
Make PIsons church and for that
Repair spent a year on Black
Shops wells Island. Coming
out he interested him.
self in prison condi-
lions, especially the reforms OF Will
liam Mott Osborn, former warden OF
Sing Sing. A tour Of the prisons of
the country followed and "Wall Shad.
ows'' (Putnam) 10 the result.
Mr.. Tannenbaum feels deeply on the
convict question and he expresses his
Vows clearly and sancly lie would
abolish the prison as II Is known today,
with its forbidding walls and frequent
lapses into cruelty. Instead he would
give the convict a voice In hts
own government--prison democracy he
terms it; he would give him chance
TO earn something for himself and his
family during his confinement; and,
above all, he would make the prison q
place for human reconstruction rather
than blind punishment.
"Wan Shadows" % an. sStendsd trea.
tiss on psuology rather than : naryated
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