The Washington times., 1930-01-27
Opium Conference Should ACT
Our American Delegation Should Walk Ont Again Ii
Sincere Effort Is Not Made to Curb Narcotic Traffic.

THEY RE having another of those opium conferences at
Geneva-and the lineup exactly what has been at
every other conference!
On one side we have the manufacturing nations manu-
featuring TEN TIMES much narcotic derivatives as the
world medical and scientific puposes the other
side have the victim nations not all of which by any
means are invited to attend.
On side have gentlemen like Sir Malcolm Deavigne,
who beautifully and suavey but get very little DONE
who point that England has always favored limitation of
opium production but do NOT point out that the limitation
in Britain India is 1873 grains each customer EVERY
DAY alongside of Sir Malcolm have the Swiss rep
sitting elbow to elbow with representative of
Swiss factories that turn out FIVE TIMES much narcotics
in one year as the world
Refreshngy the other side from Sir Malcolm is sgnor
Cavazzoni from Italy who constantly out of order con-
stantly speaking "irreevantly always wanting to know
why don we DO something? Why don't REALLY cut
down the manufacture and importation of opium products in
this drug ridden world?'
sgno Cavazonn doesn't expect much from this conference
He said the very first day after he looked the
delegates of indifference among them
He the opium bockt should be called the poison bloc
standing the door and he probably said to himself in his
outspoken Italian way ITS the old run-around and
ought to 90 home just the American delegation did in
1885,
That's exactly what the American delegation did in 1926
another such conference It Withdrew it couldn't stand
for the run around It that the conference didn
MEAN what it SAID, and its members walked out. They
accused by the polite representatives from the
manufacturing nations of being minded and
promising of having to the conference with inruc
tions."
Well the American delegates HAD to Geneva with
inrucons-to do all in their power to kill the opium evil
The other delegates from the manufacturing nations had also
come with instructions-to KEEP THE OPIUM TRADE
ALIVE-and they obeyed those instructions.
They passed very lovely drug convention which limited
the manufacture of opium derivatives Exclusively medical
and legitimate scientific purposes but they did nothing
at all about enforcing that convention They set up
chiney They might just effectively have spent their time
singing folk songs. America walked out
The world profits from the trade have increased enormously
since 1925 and the imports of narcotics America have
creased from $4,000 pounds in 1923 900 pounds 1929
Only ONE nation has taken that drug convention seriously
That nation is Span which is victim nation which does
not manufacture narcotics and which sincerely the
the passage effective That effect
for fourteen months and the manufacturing nations do
like it. It is called the stipulated supply law.
Each the Spanish Government estimates the amount Of
opium will need and publicly from which country
it will buy its supply The law enforced and that's all the
narcotic that can be legally imported to Spain.
They going about that law at this Geneva
ference. They going to discuss it, And what the
delegates SAY but what they do will be the test of their
sincerity.
And if they don't do the right thing they and haw
and wink at the opium bloc American delegates ought
to WALK OUT AGAIN. They that much to the Ameri-
can people-and the American people will support them