The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-20
CHILDREN Of Z
DRUGHAB|T
VICTIMS
Texas Grand Jury Reports Re.
suits Of Border Smuggling
Of Dope.
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clothes that their parents provide
for them, steal and indulge in order
petty crimes for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning funds to satisfy their crav-
ings engendered by the drug habit.
I'VE find that one boy has stated
TO officers Of the law that he has
about twenty companions Of his own
age who are drug users. Another
boy disclosed that there are forty Of
his child companions using narcotics.
''Peddlers of drugs are giving it
away to some children to Great mar
cotic addiction, thus enlarging the
demand for their illicit traffic. Girls
between the ages Of seventeen and
twenty confined in the Ell Paso
county clinics are found to be drug
addicts.
Girl Has HypOdeG1nic Needle.
Around the public schools in the
Mexican section Of the city after
closing hours for school are many
hangers-on waiting for the discharge
of school children, and it Is our be.
lief that these people are RESPONSE
BILE for drugs getting into the hands
of children.
zone Mexican girl was found by
her teacher to have in her possession
a hypodermic needle"
A Government official was author.
! ity today for the statement that the
child addicts were not confined TO
| the Mexican children who attend the
school in the Mexican tenement Sec
ton. eff you had seen the child
witnesses called before the grand
jury during its Investigations you
would have realized that it applied
to Americans and MexicanS alike, ="
he said. 1.-THE drug peddlers did not
confine their operations to the Mexi-
can schools, but even invaded the
high school where American chill
dren attend almost exclusively"
Boy Shows Drug Habit.
This statement Ia confirmed by
the statement Of DR.. Ida Bishop, a
woman physician, who announced
today that she had seen q boy in a
high school cadet uniform enter a
restaurant plainly under the influ-
ence of a narcotic. The Mexican
girl in the grand jury report was
Resale Martini, who applied to the
clinic here for treatment, and when
searched was found to have a hypo.
dermic needle. She gave her age as
thirteen.
Last month Jose Villa1va, a Next.
can deputy sheriff, appeared at the
! Federal building here with his son,
/ Louis Villalva. who, he claimed, was
a drug addict and had been using
a narcotic for months.
! The Rev. Father Frederick
| Liedenburg, of Chicago, has arrived
| to confer with Mayor Davis and
the divisional narcotic chief, with
q view to stopping the traffic in
! the parochiaI schools in the Mexi-
can quarters Of Ell Paso.
| Mothers Warn Children.
Ell Paso has grown to be one of
the principal distributing points
for narcotics in the Southwest, &C.
cording to Government officers
Because of the proximity to JIarez
and the ease Of smuggling dope
across the river, the c1andestine
| traffic has increased to such d.
mansions that Division Chief Wood
has asked for additional men TO aid
| him in checking 1t. It has also
attracted drug users from all parts
| Of the United States here, many Of
whom are wealthy and wish to be
near the source Of supply.
Mothers are warning their chill
| dren, no matter how young, to re.
| fuse anything offered them by
strangers and to report the oc-
currence to their teacher or parents
| at once.