Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-14
CHINESE SETBACKS
LAID T0FOE'S DRUG
Called First Victory With
Narcotic NeedIe-SaIes
in u. S. Cited.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-The Ameri-
can Narcotic Defense Association to-
day characterized Japan's military
campaign in North China as "the
first victory in world history won
with narcotic needle"
DR.. Arthur La Roe, association pres
ident, said North China had been
flooded with narcotics refined in
Manchukuo, to the moral degrade
ton of the Chinese people and the
success of japanese arms"
He coupled the statement with a
warning that Japan was on the eve
OF a "grand-scale offensive intended
to bring her world domination by
morally disintegrating other races
through the opium habit"
Ninety per cent of the opium and
It's derivatives, which are shipped il
licitly through Tientsin. distributing
point for the contraband in North
China. he said. is sent to the United
States
This country" he warned. is 60
Ing to pay the cost of Japan's mill
tary excursion in China by the pur-
chase of japanese opium.
Many of the shipments are not
sent directly to the United States for
disposition through organized rings
They are taken to other countries and
trans-shipped. but ultimately they
reach the United States, the biggest
per capita consumer of narcotics in
the world"
Half the population of North China,
he asserted had been introduced to
the use of opium by the Japanese
''in order to ease the task of military
subjugation."
Japan protects her own popula-
ton" he said. The use of opium is
forbidden in the empire. But she
enslaves the rest of the world Last
wear Manchukuo alone had 18 opium
refineries in operation
Just before the start of the current
hostilities in China, DR.. C. S. Mel,
Chinese administrator for opium,
organized 1900 hospitals of from rs
to $50 beds to cope with the addiction
problem.
Now they are having a hard time
getting armies together which do not
need the drug. An addict soldier with
narcotics, in the hands of the enemy
is worse than useless"
The United States leads in every
thing" he commented, including tall
buildings and narcotics consumption
= I'VE are creating new addicts at the
rate of 100000 year-perhaps faster
now. with the aid of marihuana"
This newest in the imposing hier-
4rchy of American criminal rackets-
the selling of loco weeds breeding
s series of atrocities, Dr. La Roe said,
which are entered on the police blot
tiers of 48 States as sex crimes.
: Marihuana was said by the associ-
Gtion president to be responsible for
the major part of the recent wave of
sex crimes.
6 He characterized the "reefer" party
among high school youngsters as the
biggest immediate problem in COM
hating the narcotic traffic Mari
huana cigarettes are known among
their "junkies" or users as REFERS,
uuggles or joys.
4 OF itself, marihuana is not an ad-
dieting narcotic. That is, DIR. La Roe
explained, forcible cessation of its use
does not cause death or serious physi-
cal harm. But users rapidly graduate
70 opium. morphine, heroin or some
other form of narcotic.
! DR.. La Roe estimated the take" by
New York City narcotic rings each
Year at s456,250,000 or more-figured
On minimum Of SIS day for each of
the 25o,O00 addicts he said drifted
dignity to their connections" or ped
dlers throughout town.