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asked by the courts Of that city
except in cases of capital punish
ment. Low bail was not asked
because it was feared that Mer-
RAMS pals in the underworld of
New York would come to his res
cue and aid in his release pending
trial.
Yes" he told Detective Ser
geant Thomas F. Sweeney, of the
central office, who went to New
York to bring the prisoner here to
be recommitted to the Federal
penitentiary and who returned
empty-handed because the Metro
politan police refused to turn him
over to the detectives, drugs did
it again. This time expect to do
my bit. Maybe when 1 leave
prison will be cured. God knows
I hope to be-"
ONLY 81 YEARS OLD.
Well educated, Merriam shows
traces Of early refinement and
breeding. He is just thirty-one
years old, and in ten years has
been arrested twelve times for va
rious criminal offenses, serving
sentences in each case.
but they never caught me
every time committed rob-
berry," Merriam declared. THE
first theft I committed was due
to drugs. In Boston fell into
bad company-some of the boys
were using morphine and heroin
which was as easy to get as
booze. One night took a shot"
That was the beginning of the
end. / was only twenty years old
then, and becoming q victim Of
drugs. I spent every cent could
get my hands on to buy the stuff,
Finally, I could not set enough
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money honestly so I began to
steal to get funds to buy dope.
After while I got into such
desperate circumstances from hav-
ing used dope that took all
sorts Of chances in getting caught
by the police in pulling off a rob-
berry. The stuff had a hold on
me that I could not break.
Eventually, I lost my nerve and
would have to be under the in
fluence Of narcotics when 1 pulled
job.
DECLARES HE'S THROUGH.
I'm robbing the Merchants
Bank here I took an enormous
shot of heroin, and then, before
going to the bank, with my plans
all laid out, 1 stopped at a Penn
sylvania avenue hotel and took
some cocaine. I was all set for
the hold up. My false courage
would have defied anything or
anybody. 1 had no fear and
walked into the bank and pulled
off the job with readiness. BUT
they caught me on the outside.
Maybe. had I gotten into an au.
tomobile, they never would have
got me, but I'm glad they did
I'm through. will serve my sen.
tence with the hope of leaving tho
prison a better man.
But, before do so, would
like to send out a warning to our
young men and women-to warn
them that by all means they
should keep away from dope. 1t
will ruin them. and my experience
has been that but few addicts are
ever cured.
Dope Is the greatest curse Of
humanity today"
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are utterly Indifferent to the sui,
fering of others should be severe.
" punished. They are not ONLY
responsible for the wrecking of
the brain of the addict, but they
cause untold suffering to the adj
diets family they make the
man or woman not only social
outcast, but q burden and dis
grace to his relatives. The aver
age dope peddler is In the busi-
ness alone for his personal gain.
EDUCATION NEEDED.
The public has not been su1-
nciently educated to the point
OF causing the arrest Of the dope
peddler and the smuggIer. The
public will readily call in the POI
lice II they learn OF the where
abouts Of q murderer, but with
the dope addict It is different.
Educate the public to the point
where it viii understand the
damage that drugs do. The Gov
eminent should make drastic
laws to control the traffic and
establish institutions in treatment
OF addicts. The people Of the
Emitted States should realize the
evil Is widespread and that any
Information the people have
about dope addicts or peddIers Of
drugs should be Immediately re-
ported.
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habit. I was fun of 1t when I
robbed the bank. It was the dope
had in me that gave me the
false courage to hold up the
teller.''
Mrs. B. c. Grant, sister Of Mer~
RAM, OF Vancouver, British CO.
lumbia, a refined young matron.
also interceded for the bank rob-
Der, who has a long police record
and has been arrested a score Of
times for stealing.
'I'lI spend all have to get
Lewis off the drug habit" pleaded
Mrs. Grant. Her appeals struck a
responsive chord in the heart OF
Mr.. Steele, who recommended to
the court that Merriam be pa
rolled. He left the next day with
his sister to be placed in q sani-
tarium at Bridgewater, Mass.
But Merriam did not want to be
cured. apparently. After several
weeks treatment he left the hos
pital. He said he was cured Of the
drug habit, and intended to go
straight. He landed In New York
a day or so later, met several Of
his old friends, and a few days ago
he was arrested in New York while
carrying kit of burglars tools.
SENTENCED TO s YEARS.
Now, Mr.. Steele wants Merriam
badly. Merriam received a sem
tence Of five years for the bank
robbery, and would now be in the
Federal penitentiary at Atlanta
had it not been for his promises to
reform and get cured Of the drug
habit. Mr.. Steele has urged upon
Inspector Clifford l.. Grant, chief
OF detectives, to extradite Merriam
from New York so he can be sent
to the Federal prison to serve the
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ed in the institution and the pat
lent sentenced to the hospital,
following conviction in the courts,
should receive wages. From these
wages the Government should
take one-third, the patients family
should have a third, and the adj
dict the rest when released from
the hospital.
The idea Of arresting q man
for using narcotics and sentencing
him to prison. where he viii be
unemployed, and Of releasing him
later to be thrown out on the
public penniless. is wrong. While
he Is In prison his family suf-
fers. This has been demonstrated
thousands OF times. Then, when
he Is released, he IL branded q
criminal; work Is hard to get be-
cause he has had no training.
He goes back to his old haunts
and starts in on the habit again.
Prisons do not always reform.
addict" SOLD DRUGS.
recall = case, at the Washing
ton Asylum Hospital, where in
the psychopathies ward we were
treating q number OF drug adj
diets. A man one night sur
rendered to the police. declaring
that he was an addict and wanted
to be sent to the hospital to be
cured. His plea apparently con-
WINGED the police that he was
sincere. and the next day he ar
rived at the hospital.
But he tricked the police. His
only object was to be committed
to the hospital. so he could
smuggle to several of the pa
tients quantity Of morphine and
heroine which he had secreted
in his clothing. The day after
he arrived we learned that the
dope patients we were trying to
cure were getting a supply of
morphine and heroin. Investiga-
ton show that the addict"
never used drugs, and that it was
he who was supplying the pa
tients with drugs.
The most important duty of the
Government is to stop the source
of supply of dope. The men who
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sKA y
the man or woman on the drug
habit should be made with care
and patience.
CAUSE of TROUBLE.
Domestic difficulties, financial
burdens and q hundred and one
things may have started the man
or woman to the use of dope.
Many become addicts because they
believe the drugs will aid them in
forgetting their troubles. It may
for awhile do this, but If the pros
pective drug addict could only
realize the danger Of beginning the
use Of narcotics, he would rather
endure his troubles than take the
initial shot"
Narcotics seem to be as easy to
buy as liquor in some quarters.
Squads Of police search for and
crusade against liquor, but only
a few investigators go out to cap
ture the dope peddler-a far
worse enemy to mankind than the
whiskey seller.
Another cause we find for
many a youth becoming addicted
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By g. LEO GIBSON.

H~o STRAIGHT? No young
man or woman addicted
~ to the insidious drug
habit can go straight. I know!
have been a dope fiend for ten
years or more.
Dope dragged me down, down
into the slough Of the under
world. Its hold on me crushed
my will power, self.respect -
drove me away from wife and
Notwithstanding us all. It was
my ruination.
''It caused mo to commit crimes
bold. daring crimes which
undertook when I was under the
influence of drugs. Why, when
I robbed the Merchants National
Bank of $4,000 1 had enough
dope in me to kill q half dozen
normal men-men not addicted
to the pernicious drugs"
ViabIy trembling from head to
foot, q nervous and physical
wreck, Lewis Dunbar Merriam,
alias Royton, a member of a we'll
known Boston family, made this
assertion following his conviction
in the District Supreme Court
here for holding up. in daylight,
the paying teller of the Mer-
chants National Bank, located in
the heart of the financial district
Of the Capital.
ASKS TREATMENT.
Don't send me to prison-send
me to a hospital; I'm sick and
want treatment for the dope
habit; please give me another
chance" Merriam pleaded with
Amos A. Steele, probation officer
OF the court. For Gods sake.
let me get cured OF this vicious
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PSYCHOP
WARD is GRAVE
OF MANY HOPES
Addicts Plead For
Drugs Above
All Else.

MO sadder story could be told
IN than that told by the ashen
- features OF some Of the
drug addicts in the psychopathic
ward of the Washington Asylum
Hospital.
Once fine specimens Of human.
fly, they have lost strength,
health, vitality and the clear eye
that once bespoke happiness.
Pleading with the nurses and at
tending physicians for "a shot,"
they give the impression that
they would sacrifice almost any
thing they cherish in order to
have their cravings satisfied.
Instead of being producers they
are a burden on society. Eco
nomic loss must be reckoned with.
1t would be interesting to know
just what figures would show in
regard to this loss. The nation,
no doubt, loses millions each year
through lack of production by
the addicts who are receiving
treatment at institutions and are
therefore idle.
ECONOMIC LOSS.
Doctors salaries and fees must
be paid by taxpayers, nurses
have to be remunerated. medi-
cines and nourishing food and
other necessaries must be paid
for out of the taxpayers pockets.
The facilities at the hospital at
present are inadequate to treat
any large number of addicts. The
psychopathic ward, where addicts
and those suffering from the eff.
fects of alcoholism are treated;
is now overcrowded.
1t is also said that most of the
employees at the hospital are con.
sldered underpaid; that the au-
thorities, because Of small ap.
preparations by Congress. are not
able to employ as much help as Is
needed.
WARNING SOUNDED.
mot only narcotic drugs, but
the many brands Of extracts, cog
macs, Jamaica ginger, and many
other liquids now on the market,
are making physical and mental
wrecks of men and women" said
q physician at the hospital.
MANY drug users started to
take shot after their nerves
became shattered from the ef-
1acts Of these extraots.
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4 4 .
Photographs show .
small quantity Of mar
cotics, including cocaine,
morphine and heroin,
seized from dope peddlers
and addicts in Washington.
The lower picture at left
is DR.. D. Percy Hickling,
District alienist, who is
waging war on the dope
peddler and who realizes
the menace to the country
Of the Illicit use Of drugs.
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In way, attribute the great
increase Of the use OF narcotics
to the sudden restrictions placed
on intoxicants. particularly light
wine and beer. The average dope
addict is Of low mentality. He is
not mentally normal-he is weak.
Many Of the present addicts to
dope are Of this type. and being
at loss to get mild intoxicant
when the Eighteenth Amendment
became law, they resorted to
drugs at the instance of unscrupu-
lous friends who already had
taken their first shot"
WAR CONDITIONS.
OF course, conditions which fol-
lowed the world war were also in
some degree responsible for the
sudden impulse many men re-
ceived to take narcotic drugs.
Many a young man came back
from France after the armistice
to find the United States dry"
He may have got his taste for
liquor, the stimulation Of it, while
In Europe. Then coming back to
his own country and finding he
was deprived of beer and light
wines, the war hero in many in
stances fell for the temptation
Of drugs.
There are number Of unprin-
cipaled men who procure, iilicitly.
drugs In Canada, in Germany, in
the Orient and other countries.
and smuggle It into the United
States. They, themselves, as a
rule, are not drug addicts, but
they are money mad and do a
dourishing business-it Is increas-
ing day by day. They have a
market for the distribution OF
their illicitIy obtained dope in
most of the big cities, and the
peddlers of the dope do the rest
These men, including the peddlers,
are worse than murderers. They
should be caught and given the
limit Of the law.
MENACE TO OTHERS.
Every man or woman who,
through the influence of drugs
or alcoholics. becomes a menace to
the lives of their associates and
the people in general. should be
sent to institutions where they can
be isolated and properly cared for
and cured. They are unfortunates
and their slavery to drugs must
be looked upon as a disease. AS
q rule, the addict, should he be
married, neglects his family and
frequently is responsible for the
wife becoming an addict. II I'M
married, the addict often encour-
ages associates to use dope.
These addicts should be treated
in medical institutions by special
lists, and they should not be re-
leased until a board or experts is
certain that a cure has been ef-
fected.
Such institutions should be un-
der the supervision Of the United
States Government. A study of
the underlying cause which started
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to narcotics IL that as q child no
or she was spoiled by parents.
They never had to provide for
themselves, were taught no trade.
they lack training in business, in
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CONDITIONS AFTER
WORLD WAR AIDED
GROWTH OF TRAFFIC
Average Addict, However, is SubnOrmal Before
Becoming Victim TO Habit, and Therefore
Finds It Impossible to Fight Effectively
Against It-Smuggling Extensive and
Highly Profitable TO Dealers.
Profitable TO Dealers.
By DIR. D. PERCY HIcKLING,

nEDDLING dope is a greater crime than murderl
1t were person bitterest enemy should feel
that causing him to become 4 drug addict would be
thousand times worse than Staying him
Curb the dope evil The most severe penaes-prison
sentences of long duraton-shoud be melted out to the
pedders and smugge of drugs There should be
institutions where the addict be properly treated
Federal narcotic forces of United States should be
augmented and vigilance should exercised in pre-
venting the smuggling of dope into the country.
The Government is way responsible for the extensive
increase the dope evil While efforts being to
educate the public regarding other evils little done to
educate it the destructive effects on mind and body of
OF have their place in medicine surgery but
their stmulant by persons Of the underworld as
well as by people Of higher plane of life, should be
stopped - ~ ~ # - So Is
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Dr. Percy ng Says No Fate Can Be Worse Than Drug Slavery
THOSE WHO PROFIT
BY TRAFFIC DEADLY
ENEMIES OF SOCIETY

Leading a Man or Woman TO Use OF DRUGS
Called More Harmful Than Outright Slaying.
HerOin, Cocaine and Morphine Destroy Mind
and Body Alike, But AddictS Treated i'm Time
MAY Often BE Cured.
Evening star., 1923-10-23
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Evening star., 1923-01-13

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Evening star., 1923-01-13
RADIO NEWS

The orchestra and quartet OF the
Vaughn class of Calvary Baptist
church viii furnish the major nor
tion Of the regular weekly concert
program tonight of station WAY OF
woodward & Lothrop. Miss GLADYS
Price, soprano, former Tech High
School dramatic star. also will sing
a selected solo, accompanied by T. l..
Koehlcr.
The. first concerted attempt to
radiophone complete recital by an
eminent artist to Europe will be made
by station WOR of the Bamberger
company at Newark, y. J., on or
about January 80. Leading radio au-
thorities of the country will assist
in the test
AS the Bamberger station is heard
distinctly in Panama and on the Pa
Cific coast, it is almost a certainty
that the music will be plainly audible
in all parts of North America and on
virtually every ocean going ship
which is equipped with loud-speaker
radiophones.
On several recent occasions wire
less operators in Europe reported
that they were able to hear portions
of the regular programs sent out by
the American broadcasting stations.
However, the Bamberger company
test will be the initial attempt to
send over a first-class program in its
entirety.
Evening star., 1923-01-13
OLD TOWERS OF TULUUM
DESCRIBED IN LECTURE
Ey1vanus Morley Talks of Walled
City of the Ancient Maya
: People.

How the towers of Tuluum. a walled
city of the ancient Maya people, once
perched high on a bluff of a busy
city overlooking the blue waters OF
the Caribbean, was told to the Ma
tiona1 Geographic Society members
last evening at the New Masonic
Temple by Sylvanus Morley.
Tuluum was one of the last strong
holds of the Maya people in northern
Sucatan. It was occupied in the
early sixteenth century, when the
Epaniards, under Juan de Grijalva,
Rrst cyuised down the coast, The
CHRONICLES of tho Grijalva expedition
&mpared TuIuum TO Seville.
Temples of Tuluum were made with
skone and finished with pure white
&re plaster. Upon these dazzling
walls were painted figures of Maya
Seather-work, serpents. deer, strange
animals and stranger men. Many of
the sanctuaries in the ruins explored
by Mr.. Morley have gods in inches
over the doorWays and some Of these
gods are shown head dOwnwardS, as
IL they were diving
Surrounding temples and palaces,
the explorers found, rise the massive
walls of Tuiuum, a great construc-
twenty feet high. Within the walls
lies an area of about twenty five
acres.
Many beautiful photographs, and
also maps and drawings, We're shown
by Mr.. Morley.
Evening star., 1923-01-13
WIAY-WOodward & LothrOp (3GO


TO 8 p.nI.--Selections on the phono-
graph and reproducing piano.
p.m.-SpeCial weekly concert. The
program follows:
Piano solo, tn" reproducing piano,
THE Rosary" tNevin); orchestra Sc
lections. the Vaughn Glass Orchestra
Of the Calvary .Ba ptist Sunday school,
Washington. d. G., Charles w. Guest,
dircctor-ta) 'Religioso March"
oChamhers). Cbb How SO Fair" from
Martha" Fl"tow): soprano solo.
Miss Gladys Price. accompanied by
Il. l.. koehler (selectedD; orchestra
selections. tn" Vaughn Glass Or
nhestra, selections from the comic
opera Mile. ModiSte" CIerbert1 :;
reader, Frederick l.. Pratt (selectedl !;
violin trio, c. {. Hutchinson, George
II. Bequette, +. a. Buell., accom-
panied by T. l. koehler, the sextet
from Lucia (Douizetta); orchestra
selections, the Vaughn Glass Or
chestra, The Sunny South Melodies; !;
male quartet, the Vaughn Quartet of
the Calvary Baptist Church Cse-
iected); orchestra selections, the
Vaughn Glass Orchestra, grand march
from Aida" (VerdD; baritone solos,
Or. A. Owen Penney. accompanied by
Herbert r. keySer-(a) I'm Victus''
". Huhn). (h) Love Like the Dawn
came Stealing" tCadman); orchestra
selections, the Vaughn Glass Orches-
ira, 'Humoresque" (Dvorak); male
quartet, the Vaughn Quartet, accom-
panied by Vaughn Glass Orchestra,
Star Spangled Banner" (Key).