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Evening star., 1926-09-26
Control of Illicit Drug Traffic

I trained force. This Is obviously some
thing which cannot be established
over night. nor can it easily remain
hidden In fact. so difficult is the
process that there are only about 81
drug factories In the whole world
making narcotic drugs, and these are
mostly situated in the United States,
Engla nd, Germany, Switzerland and
Japan.
| III the output Of those factories can
be controlled then the illicit drug
traff1c is over.
That does not sound impossible
does it? But these factories are pgi'
I vate enterprises and represent large
capital. So long as there Ia such
big return for the manufacture OF mar
cotic drugs and such an enormous IL
licit market these companies are do
ing good business II they make and
sell all they can.
| Furthermore, they produce some
thing which is totally necessary to US
all in certain times of illness and ac'
cident. The medical profession could
not do without these narcotic drugs
Is 1t not strange to think that any
thing which properly administered can
be so beneficial to mankind can, II
wrongly used, cause such misery and
destruction?
| There Is no reason, however, why
the output of these dangerous habit
forming drugs cannot be controlled
and limited to the medical needs OF
the world. The governments can eS
tablish this control either by taking
over themselves the manufacture OF
such drugs or by establishing such
adequate supervision of the manufac
ture that the government shall con
troll the amount Of supplies admitted
to the factory and shall regulate the
disposal of the output, so that no one
can buy a grain of morphine or Co
caine except for bona fide medical or
! scientific purposes.
| Such drastic measures as these have
been adopted in the United States and
in England with satisfactory results
| for it Is now believed that no drugs
! manufactured in either of these coun-
tries get into the Illicit trade. Yet the
trade still exists. might indeed be said
to flourish still, in both these countries.
Why? Because the other nations
where these drugs are manufactured
have not established this sort Of con-
troll and the smuggling of drugs goes
on.
How clearly this proves the interna-
! tiona] character of this problem and
, the need for absolute national control
| and International cooperation.
Evening star., 1926-09-26
AUTO INDUSTRY FACING
PROBLEM in PRODUCTION
Profits in Big Output Of Cars Com
pared With Returns From High
Quality Manufacture.

better car and is henef!ting through
fncrea sed good VIII.
Just wha. a gobd m4.ne means 20 a
manufacturer. as AL ildica ton or the
fact that 8 maker need rot follow tn"
production principle To operate
successful. can he Judged by the
amazing record Of ore os the sma"
producers whose cars FETAL! for more
:han $25Gn In the frs: half OF 1928
;nis orga MIA ton showed prof. o:
$4,3s1.3 .315 on cnl; 10000 vehicles.
which is Al the :ate o. S43S a car. In
the corresponding period this year It
made a pro9t OF apnroXima ely double
this figure on a n output OF only is 500
machines. This save the compan! a
prof, o! s.;2 car.
/: should he borne in mind that all
profits per car include prdfts on parta
sold for cars made in previous periods.
However ;:lis does not change The
general picture. II is true that a
,arge producer has more cars to sup
ply parts for. bur they go 10 the junk
heap sooner than the better made ma
chimes. There are fewer care TO be
kept supplied with parts IN the case OF
the higher grade products. but there
are greater profits per part. and be
cause owners keep their cars longer
more Replacement 9 are the result.
May Abandon Quantity Field.
With all this clearly ~ view. Gre
dence Is len; to the widespread rumors
that the decision Of several companies
to aba andon the quantity field for f!r
tation with the custom" business is
result of the growing conviction thai
there Is no. room for so many in the
ma ss division. and that even for those
companies that are succeeding In 1t
he profits are not as aIluring Az had
been ant:cipa pied.
Another instance: In the first half Of
this wear. one organization produced
1900 cars at a profit of s145 a. unit.
AT the So me time one of its liveliest
competitors made A unit profit Of but
S104 on a ba sis OF production OF
1918 The former firm made more
money. because # has more years Of
fine reputation behind it. and its stock
always has been exceptionally high
on the exchange. The company may
be making a serious mistake by follow
ing the lure of quantity output.
II will be seen that the industry Is
not solely on quantity production
ba sis as many casual observers have
been led 10 believe. even though many
producers have attempted to follow
the principles Of Henry Ford in this
direction.
The latter manufacturer started in
by building an inexpensive car. and it
ia quite possible that the makers who
keep pushing down price and quality
in an effort to increa Sc profits simply
are jeopardizns their own positions.
The public will buy Ford or a car
plainly offered Is Ford-type product.
but certainly it may hesitate to buy A
cheap version of car il once held in
higher esteem. That may be one eX-
planation of the trend toward better
cars and higher prices.
Evident it is that the problem is one
affecting in very vital fashion the
automobile industry AS whole. and
ma nufacturers and careful observers
are giving an increa sing measure of
attention to the whole broad question.
Evening star., 1926-09-26
Simonds Sees the League of Nations
As Bitter battle-ground of Future

they came to Geneva, forced to ratify
their bargain. even to the extent of
Great ting new Council seats. and are
now proceeding to organize within
the League 70 carry on their rlval11es
with very little regard 70 the inter
eets Of the League. to the wishes OF
the smaller states. which constitute
4 ma iolity. OF of anvthing save the
business which they have In hand.
Every real friend Of the League per
ceives that this process may be i'm
mensely expensive for 1t. Therefore
it is easy to see why. despite all out
ward semblance Of success. this last
session may prove a. disaster.
Locarno was very real peace pact,
because it was a bargain between the
great powers made on business
basis which represented realities. 1t
had nothing to do with Geneva. 1t
was only made after the Geneva plan
for peace-namely. the protocols was
scrappod by the great powers. After
ward the League was used to give an
appearance of idealism to the affair.
But actually LocaI'no was made at the
expense of the League The first
costs were disclosed in the fiasco of
March: the other costs have heen re
yesled here. and still further expenses
are foreseen.
In other words. in my judgment,
the great powers have successfully. If
perhaps only temporarily. captured
the League and turned it TO their
uses. while with enormous skill and
success making the realization Of
their ends seem a victory for the
League AS a. result the League be-
comes for a time not now TO he cal
culated a chess board of foreign
Offices a battle-ground Of great power
o,ampaigns. intrigues and manipula-
tons.
tCopyright. 1925
Evening star., 1926-09-26

, tries lies in close politico-eco o.
nomic accord between the two.
1t follows that they discussed ways
and means to that end.
According to the wisea cres, the
conversation took some such turn as
this:
DIR stresemann. name your first
wish for Germany
Monsieur, the evacuation of the
Rhinela nd. of course. Would you be
so kind as to state your quid pro
quo?'
You know. doctor. our crying
need Of cold cash. What say you to
turning over preferred shares OF the
German railways in the total value
Of 100000 900 marks, upon the repa-
rations account"
Il think, monsieur. that under the
circumstances the proposal is reason
able" And so on, and so on.
Thoiry was, We may be sure, the
beginning Of much.
Spain-It is reported that Primo
de Rivera has resolved upon con-
siderable reduction in the size of the
Spanish army and A thorough re-
formation and reorganization OF that
institution. Lovers of Spain will
commend the resolution. for reform
Of the army is perhaps the most cry
ing need Of the country. 1t is not
difficult to imagine a Spanish army
Of the first efficiency. The material
should not be so inferior to that of
which the great captain and Alva
disposed. There are few finer. bet
ter disciplined, orga nizations in the
world today than the Spa nish civil
guards, the const abulary dating
from about 1s50) formed Of picked
men. mounted and foot. Merely. one
is disposed to say, very bad trad1-
tions have established themselves In
the army. while the newer traditions
of the Guardias Civiles are alto
gether good.
But 1t is obvious that the dictator
has his work cut out for him. The
officers, one hears. are muttering
disapproval. The report adds that
the civil guards are to be increased
Effecting of the reductions proposed
would release considerable sums for
application to sundry agrarian. edu-
cational and industrial projects in
cluded in Primo de Rivera's great
general program for the reha bilita =
ton and development of Spain.
1t is reported that the Spa
government, in an identical note to
Evening star., 1926-09-26
Lenin i'm Death, Seems to Be Inspiring
More Influence on Russia Than in Life

achievement in embalming. the signifi.
canoe of the Lenin cult Is to be noted
Among those who assemble at this
burial place are bands of pioneers"
These are young children, comparable
to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
They are taught from infancy the
principles Of communism. and are en-
couraged to visit Lenin for inspira.
ton. Hundreds of thousands of these
pioneers" Of Socialism have been
organized in the schools Of Russia
In all the factories there are Lenin
corners" where he Is venerated and
where his doctrines are promulgated
Russia Is preparing the coming gen
Grafton to follow in the path Of the
revolution.
Evening star., 1926-09-26
feiting more difficult, William
Blum. chief of the electro.

| ~ HROMIUM Is making counter.
feiting more difficult, William
Blum, chief of the electro
chemical section Of the United
States Bureau of Standards,
says in research report made public
| by the Engineering Foundation. 1t is
also enabling the United States Gov
erment, he declares. to meet the In
creAsing demand for paper money.
More and better" money Is being
| turned out by applying a, thin coat
| of chromium to the electrolytic plates
| from which the Nations currency Is
| printed. Chromium. proved by tests
| to be the hardest Of metals, has been
| found cheaper than nickel or steel.
and the impressions are sharper.
Through its use, a dollar bill. for
| example, survives longer, because 1t
! can stand rougher usage than the
| bills printed from uncoated plates.
BY increasing the life OF each plate.
fewer plates are needed. the result
being fewer differences in bills and
| bonds.
| Get More Perfect Plate.
A more perfect plate Is producing
more perfect money, and when the
microscope now reveals variation OF
| impression the chances are greater
that the lack of uniformity is due
rather 70 counterfeiting than to the
printing process.
"A layer of chromium only twoten'
| thousa ndths of an inch thick de-
| posted upon the nickel surface of an
electrolytic plate increases the USE
| full life to at least four times that of
nickel surface. and twice that of a
| case-hardened steel surface" says Mr.
! Blum.
AS fewer plates are required. the
currency Is even more nearly unit orm
than formerly. The method Is there
| fore. in a double sense, a 'nonsy-mak
| ing process"
Mr.. Blum's report Is published with
| the approval of the director Of the
| Bureau Of Standards and of the direc
| tor of the Bureau of Engraving and
| Printing of the Treasury Department.
Way to Check Counterfeits.
THE Bureau of Engraving and
! country on the printing of paper cur.
rency and United States Government
securities. and is very Jealous TO
| maintain 1t" the report says.
One of the best ways to render
counterfeiting more difficult is to have
| all genuine bills of a. given design
absolutely identical. Any defect oh
served in single line or dot is then
an indication of cOunterfeiting.
ITO produce such perfect impres
sions, the plate-printing process is
employed. The designs on the plates
are 1ntaglio'-that Is. they are below
the plane surface of the plate Ir
printing. the entire surface is coated
with ink: the excess is carefully re
moved by wiping, leaving the ink
| only in the lines. When the paper
is then pressed upon the plate, the ink
is picked up. giving sharply defined
lines in the print.
There Is considerable abrasion
from the particles of pigment in the
inks. plates even with a case hard
ened steel surface. usually WELD only
10000 to 10000 impressions. Al
plates used. until few years ago
We're of steel; they We're produced
by transfer.
Difficulty During War.
'In this process the design is rolled
into A soft steel plate. which is ther
hardened. There are only limit
ed number Of 'transferrers or 'siderog
raphers.' in this country. 1t wa
Evening star., 1926-09-26
BY COL. ARTHUR WOODS.

tn HERE is good deal OF talk
nowadays all over the civilized
world about dope" and the
L drug traf1c-and that is one
of the most hopeful things
about the whole situation. For
wherever civilized people learn the
truth about the drug menace and stop
TO think of the ravages and misery
brought by the improper uses of these
dangerous habit forming narcotics,
there YOU will find people whose
righteous Indignation. Is aroused
against a hideous trafic and who will
back whatever strong measures may
be necessary to put an end to 1t. In
fact, IL is this ever more enlightened
and therefore eyer.strengthenihg
force OF public opinion which has
trolling the evil 20 be taken all over
the world during the last few years.
For this is an international problem.
and Il Is only by concerted vigorous
action on the part of all the countries
involved that the ultimate goal Of com
p)ate control of narcotic drugs can be
alta med. Fortunately. owing to this
universal condemnation OF the drug
traffic, most OF the difficulties and mis-
understa rd.ngs which usually block
the road toward international agree.
though al. nations seem sincere in their
expressed desire to cooperate in
stamping out this terrible menace.
their cooperation is far from being
as effective as it should be. and in
some cases still seems to exist only on
paper.
Here is a need for public opinion to
make itself felt still more strongly and
to insist that governments adopt the
practical and comprehensive methods
which will make their condemnation
Of the evil a thing of action and not
only OF words.
We have reached a point where no
government can afford to say that 1t
protects the drug smuggler or that it
countenances the Illicit drug trade.
Now we must so on, and speedily, to
the point where no government can
afford not to take whatever action is
necessary to make it a strong link in
the international chain which Is being
forged to shackle the drug traffic and
suppress 1t forever.
You will have noticed perhaps thai
speak almost exclusively of con
trolling the traffic in drugs, and thai
SO far ! have said nothing about the
suppression of the growth of the
poppy or cocoa leaves. That is be-
cause there is no doubt in the mind Of
any one who has studied this question
that the immediate and most !mpor.
Evening star., 1926-09-26
THE TRUTH ABOUT DOPE

HE control of the narcotic and consumption of the
world already has been the subject of six international
conferences President Coolidge appointed Col Arthur
Il Woods. former Police Commissioner of New York City,
the United States at the meeting this
This conference reported that into the underworld market
there goes each year 100000 pounds Of bootleg opium
That impossible control the growth of narcotics
of each conference As the against
drug sugger advocate control Of the manufactured
p:oAs.t. .
There only abor. 50 drug factories in the whole world
these for the the United States England
Germany. Switzerland and Japan-among the civilized
nations of the universe
New York State has 25O0 of whom $4,000 residents
of New York City. Seventyfve of New York Cy
addc criminals
The United States spends in its illicit drug traffic approx
mate $82000 annually In the underworld dope market of
New York City $l687500 changes hands each year.
Narcotic consumption America is decreasing In Europe,
where official have been closed the which
ing at their civilization, drug addiction is increasing
Evening star., 1926-09-26
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.
C ONTRARY TO the general pub
lie opinion. the entire auto.
mobile industry is not mo-i.
waited solelN by the inaruls se

~ ONTRARY TO the general pub
lie opinion. the entire auto.
mobile industry is not mo-i.
waited solely by the impulse
toward quantity production
WITH. the aim OF benefitine the pro
epeee1ve buyers purse at the risk o:
a6fonting his taste
e In true that all AWer!can motor
or makers are endeavoring To give
she buyer the most for his money
the automotive dollar never was SO
valuable as 1t is today-but. en-
phatically IL Is not true that the in
dustry as whole is committed to
the mass production principle as that
principle usually is recognized
Some far seeing ma nufacturers who
have until now believed that mass
production Is the hest thing are asking
whether II really is the soundest bus.
ness. What vii! happen. they ask.
when the abnormal demand for new
cars passes? Should the prices of au-
tomobiles be reduced during perioa+ of
great dema nd?
An indication of what is goinc an
in some divisions of the industt' is
shown in the fact that one % the
largest producers-a unit e'hiCh
agpired to a place next to the largest
for numerical supremacy and Is max
ing more money per car. In tre first
half ~ last year this company turned
cut the relatively small nun Ger o:
1885 machines. but instead o: meet-
ing the price situation with an ag-
gressive campaign, continued to take
.te medicine and concentrate on build
fng as good cars s'as could be built in
that particular claSs-not a low price,
but medium price class.
Slipped Behind in Sales.
When the returns for 1925 were ali
In 1t was found that rot only did the
company fail to benefit by tho great
increase In demand for cars. but ac-
tually slipped behind in sales and pro
duction Only -. 400 cars were turned
out. But here is the surprising fact
the profits on the reduced production
we're $S.755 s64. a profit per unit Of
$147
Contrast this with the case Of an
other company. one of the most ag-
gressive of the quantity producers.
During the first half of 1925 this COM
pany turned out 13l,T1S cars at an
average profit of only $45 car The
sales for the period were approximate
ly 81 900 more cars than In the same
months in 1925.
Suppose the general demand for au-
tomcbiles should take A sudden fall.
Say the second company could sell but
5000 units over a half.year period
and the first could dispose OF but 30
600 Suppose eac!I took 30 per cent
cut In profits per un't to pay for in
crease advertising used-car losses.
sales campaigns and additional car
equipment to attract the purcha sing
public. The second company could
make a profit of ahou' Sl.50n 600.
while TIE first could net slightly more
than 81 600 900. The latte: firm. OH
viouSlv is in a better position. 1t
makes more nIoney. manufact a
Evening star., 1926-09-26
The Story the Week Has Told

London and Paris, has formally
withdrawn it's demand for the inclu :
sion of the international zone of
Tangier In the Spanish zone of
Morocco: at the same time. how
ever, proposing that conversations
he begun looking toward Italian par
ticipa ton in the administration OF
the Tangier zone. 1t is understood
that London is not exubera ntly hos
pitable to the proposal
X **
Greece.-Greek developments since
the coup of Gen. kondyles have been
enveloped in obscurity. Whether or
no the general would play the die
tator if he could is not apparent
but / infer from the dispatches that
he would not be allowed to do SO
If he so wished; that the Greeks
have had their fill of dictatorship
The Greek people seem to be at last
aroused from the political apathy
induced by their miSfOrtunes. At
nrst blush this seems all to the
|'good. but'if it involves (and there
are some indications in that sense)
the powerful revival of monarchist
agitation, 1t may turn out all to the
bad. 1t We're we'll to watch out for
squalls in Greece.
Charles p. Rowland of New York
has resigned the Craftsmanship of the
League of Nations Refugee Settle
ment Commission in Greece. He
will he succeeded by another Amer
lean.
China.-Wuchang, occupied by a
detachment of WI Pei Fus troops
still holds out against savage on
slaughts by the Cantonese
1t is reported that strong Can
tonese forces are approac ching forces
of Sun Chuan Feng. supertuchun
Of the Ave lower YangtsZe" prov =
inces (Kiangsi, Kiangsu, Anhwei,
Chekiang and Fukien) in position
not far west of kiu Kiang, on the
Yangtsze. 1t is also reported (most
important If true) that Chang Kai
Shek, the Southern commander, is
getting great many volunteer re-
cruits from the central provinces
the which provinces have hitherto
had a Northern orientation. 1t would
seem that WI Pei Flu has retreated
to the left (northern) bank of the Vel
low River lin Honan province). and
that he is being reinforced from the
North. but whether heavily enough to
permit a comeback remains. to be seen
The rumor persists that Sun Chuan
Evening star., 1926-09-26

placed on platform, the top Of which
was slightly lower than the walkway
on three sides of the tomb. around
which the spectators slowly passed.
On the fourth side stood an armed
guard, and back Of them was a worn
Red flag used by the Commune in
Paris in the seventies. Lenin's head.
and the body clothed In simple Soviet
to the hips, was exposed, including
the hands The legs and feet were
covered as II the sleeper had lain
down for a Sunday nap and thrown
a blanket partly over him. The high
forehead. bald to the middle Of his
head, and his pointed sandy whiskers
gave Lenin an appearance identical
with that known to thousands from
pictures and buttons everywhere dis
played 1t was a sleeping man and not
corpse that one saw.
Career Is Reviewed.
And who was this Lenin, anyhow?
His real name was Vladimir Tlyitch
Oulianoff Few Of the reyolutionists
go under their own names) Born OF
the lower nobility on the Volga, IN
what is nof Russian Tartary, he was
not a WOThcI, UuI VI lhc lotSo OO1h
seoisie. A brother had been put to
death under the old Czarist regime for
plotting against the life of Alexander
III. Lenin turned Red, sought reform
and revenge. He was sent to Siberia
in exile. and after his release spent
years abroad studying and developing
Carl Marx and participating in revolu-
tionary propaganda In the Great
War he opposed Russian participation,
and coming up from Germany follow
ing the revolution was accepted as a
leader He created the first organi-
zation Of Soviets. defeated Kerensky.
and with Trotsky. made the treaty Of
Brest. .Litovsk with Germany. From
then on he was supreme in Russia,
destroying all opposition. He died in
January. 1921. scarcely 50 years old
Besides theA spectacle ana the
Evening star., 1926-09-26
New Wage Solution.

Chinese coolies in tea godowns
pulled a new stunt In the history
Of labor movements here during
their recent strike when they kid.
naped three of their employers and,
taking them to a vacant lot. forced
them TO sign a bond acceding to
their demands for an increase OF
10 cents silver a day. 4ap> than
1000 employees BENEFITED - the
Evening star., 1926-09-26
BY HENRY w. BUM.

. HE following is brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
1 seven days ended Septem
Evening star., 1926-09-26

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