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? WEEKLY BULLETIN cr.gamt &Tish Association Tfril Statewide Cope ration Came, jfisn & Jorest can be Materially yncreused for the Benefit of Jul. *NGLEr'8 LICENSE NECE88ARY Mtfked for it. For two yearn we (ve requeHt? ?J the utute legislature create an anglers license for sport (bin*, ?"(' "uss 1 lu! me??u>"e has been ,e4(e?l into law. The license but>D? should be received this week jrtj, (he manufacturer and the actual rtMteof permits will follow limnedteiy Hundreds of applications for license ,T6 already _ beyjj received by the Ke game depart Mint,' which indites to a degree the willingness of e anglers to purchase the license, idouhtedly, the department ami the , By issuing agents scattered rougbout the state will be swumped tb application* as soon uk the butUS begin to appear and the fisheren realize the law Is effective. The A calendar is "black' this week and it, too. With the revenue received?$1.1 o ran annual, statewide, resident I lege on artificial tackle only?nine ite hatcheries can be operated, udional wardens placed on the rivers r patrol duty, fish distribution, rese work and study be carried on. J ' ..? The money can wisely be used in a present fishery need. Members of this association should sot tile pace by making application forlbwitlt for their license and speaking optimistically in lla fuvbr. Wo aako<i for the law uhd it bua been granted, last's go the second mjle. Tbe revenue t>j be derived la important; tlu> production of more and more fish in butcheries tine, but the greatest result of tbe law will be the licensing of unglers, tbe taking of fish under regulations- a forwurd step. A person bus to be licensed to tlsb; with this comes un appreciation of fishing I und fishing conditions. The old "something for nothing" condition has prevailed, and people thought about that much of fishing. Now they begin to pay for the privilege of fishing and now they will begin to consider fishing a more important pastime. The next step Is already known and the move will come naturally and with little effort. Size and bag limit and seasonal fishing will come when fishermen begin to think about fishing conditions, and they will begin to think about these conditions when they pay something for the privilege of fishing. anteo hurries rebuilding OF FORT RALEIGH FOR EVENT Manteo, N C?The din of axes and e bun of saws echoed here today workmen accelerated their pace In effort to complete the rebuilding Fort Raleigh in time for the anal pilgrimage on August 18. The Roanoke Colony Memorial asclation, founded to memorialize the me of the first English colony, oboed federal funds In 1934 and starton the task of reviving the old e. \ dozen buildings have been colluded since that time and four ire are being erected, ill the biuldings are placed inside jallisade of pointed cypress logs? same idea carried out by the eolsts to protect them from the teriries of hostile Indians. The houses, ; are of hand-fitted logs and imagine visitors may see an accurate ioriral replica of the place abandd by the original? the "lost" colhis year's celebration may be sulative as far as the pilgrims to spot are concerned. President 5sevelt has accepted an invitation attend?provided congress does not ourn during that time. Others of country's notables have indicated y would be present. hree persons were injured when iomb was exploded against the of the newspaper El Imparcial, San Juan, Porto Rico, Saturday.' NARCOTIC8 The Treasury Fights An Insidious Traffic. Smoke pouring from her streamlined funnels, the 52,000-ton liner Rex nosed through the choppy waters of New York harbor one day last week on her way to Naples, Italy. But before the Bea giant had gotten a glimpse of open ocean, she came to an unscheduled stop at Quarantine, the usual health inspection point for incoming ships. Acting on a tip which had been" sent from Italy to Washington, two Federal customs agents clambored aboard the ship from a small Coast Guard cutter. Hastily but thoroughly they made a search in orew quarters for morphine, a deadly white powder which in the side-streets of American cities is a dozen times more precious than gold. Nearly an hour later,the Rex churned out into the free Atlantic. Government officers were left empty-handed. They were satisfied, nevertheless, that their extraordinary pains had not gone for nothing; the chances that Rex crew members had possessed morphine were relatively small. Prodded 10 months ago by the orders of Secretary Morganthau, the CARD OF THANKS We wish to express to our friends hekrtfelt thanks for the many kind deeds shown us at the death of our^ beloved mother and sister. Chfldren and Brothers of Mrs. J. C. Twitty Treasury Department la thuB engaged in a painstaking cuinpaigu which has nothing to do witii interest rates, budgets or cash on hand. The growiiiK concern of aome 4.300 Treasury employees today ia titc problem of narcotics-?-how to prevent the illegal entry of habit-forming drugs into thia country, and how to detect ami prevent the uae of auch drugs ua do leak in. in theory, the Treaaury ia interested only in the $700,000 annual rifvenuo derived from taxea on imported nur cotica and the paid feea of phyaiclana and factories permitted to ban-, die ami refine such drugs. Actually the revenue power of the government is a tenuous but strong thread on which to hang prosecution of the vicious habit of narcotic.idrug addiction Opium, morphine, heorin and cocaine claim about 100,000 devotees in the United States. Rarely, however, do addicts die from the use of drugs. More often, their minds wurped by constant doping, the addicts kill From the ranks of the "Junkers" (addicta), come tlie most persistent jaw violators in the country. Their commonest crime?aside from infringement of narcotics laws?is petty theft, their most serious one, murder. If the Federal or the ijtuto governments could cure or'imprison all dope addicts, they would automatically be rid of a major class of criminals. This the Federal government may do in three ways: By preventing the illegal entry of narcotics into this country; by destroying illegally possessed drugs within the county; and by arresting and imprisoning "Junkers" and peddlers for possessing drugs for which they have no permits and on which no taxes have been paid. World Supply: The problem begins abroad. All pure narcotics?opium, morphine and heroin?are derived from the juice of foreign-grown opium poppies. Petaled white, red or deep purple, these popies are grown in a nearly continuous belt of 10 countries which begins in the Balkans and stretches to the eastern edge of Asia. China, Manchukuo, Persia, India and Turkey are the heaviest producers of opium. ?Unluckily for other nations, China and Manchukuo, which together produce 12,000 tons of the world s annual 13,750-ton raw opium supply, are the only countries which do not control the planting of poppies. Undoubtedly they are the first sources of illegal drugs which filter into the United States. But morphine and heroin are extracts of raw opium. Unlike the parent product, they must be manufactured, rather than grown and taken as a natural product of the poppy. Channels of the illicit drug traffic are thus diverted to those countries which have hidden, unlawful, factories. China and Manchukuo again lead in this respect. In addition, however, raw opium is shipped to Japan, Turkey and France for illegal conversion into more highly concentrated painkillers. A few factories are also believed to exist In the Balkans. Smuggling: Cooperating with about 50 other countries which also adhere to the quotas set by the annual League of Nations Conference for the Limitation of Narcotic Drugs, the United States last year Imported 72 1-2 tdns of crude opium, and no refined products. This supply was deemed adequate for medical needs. By comparison, the seizures of illicit drugs at seaports and within the nation's borders was less than 1-2 ton. But because drugs are carried In such 8ma 11 bulk and so cleverly concealed, It was estimated that as much of 9 tons of narcotic drugs might have been smuggled into the United States. Neither European, nor any Eastern producers seemed to have any monopoly on the Illicit drug supply. New York, however, was thought to have received more narcotics than all other U. S. ports put together. On the West Coast, Los Angelas, San Francisco and Seattle were prime ports of entry. Trickling into these ports from freighters and large liners alike, opium, morphine and heroin are concealed in every way imaginable. Opium, a blackish-brown substance which may come in the form of a soft paste of in harder forms, is packaged-in tins about the size of an ordinary tobacco can, or In loose paper wrapping. Because of its bulk, It is the hardest drug to get past customs Inspectors. In many cases, opium shipments are lowered at night or early morning from shipboard onto small river craft. These make their way, sometimes undetected, through ship-Jammed harbors to out-of-the-way city piers, where a shore agent receives the drug. Morphine and heroin are both white powders which look like confectioners' sugar. Morphine may be pressed into cubes about the size of^a small die, and heroin may come In .the form of pink, Pills slightly larger than buckshot; but both are relatively easy to conceal. Quite often they may be carried directly ashore on the person of* smuggler. . & U the business of detecting illegal dr?* hipmeute Is difficult, the matter of ffsklnf them Is hardly lees so. To , * , * . .. j V* ' 4 rf . t. get h quantity of illicit drug? Into i thu hunda of an addict, no leas than six different transactions are required. Narcotics must bo purchased illegally abroud, sent across the ocean, generally In the hands of u few members of u ship's crew; lunded from a ship and delivered to a large dealer; sold by a wholesaler to u retailer; and finally peddled to the addict. No more involved but more public- , i/.ed tliun most cation wan that of Chinese Maria Wendt last A^ust. Found by a custom? inspector in San l'edro, Cal., to have 54 pounds of pure heroin in a false-bottonied trunk. Mujdii , pleaded guilty, to violation of the narcotics laws. As a direct result of her plea and information given by* her about some of her confederates, two more members of the gang became known to Federal agents. One; a Polish citizen, committed suicide on a ship bound from Cuba to the United States. Shortly afterward another, a Frenchman, was found murdered in China. Internal Traffic: Precarious between foreign ports and final customs inspection in the United States, the Illicit traffic in narcotics does not reach its most vicious and despicable phase until it becomes a matter of domestic trade. From eastern and western coast cities, the flow of drugs covers the United States. States particularly troubled by narcotics violation?Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas ?are tar removed from prime seaports. Peddlers of illegal drugs engage In one of-the most equisite forms of blood-sucking known to man. By the time drugs have gone through the hands of the four middlemen Involved In most transactions, they are extremely precious commodities. Morphine is sold to the addict at the rate of $437 an ounce. Physicians licensed by the government to handle narcotic-drugs pay about $7.r?0. Opium, nearly cheap as dirt in the Orient, costs an authorized physlciai^ about $2.40 an ounce, np addict $16. And an addict may pay for heroin at the rate of $90 an ounce and receive a product which is 99 per cent talcum powder and milk-sugar. Drug addiction therefore becomes an expensive habit. "Junkers," who need their drugs as often as an ordinary person needs food, and sometimes more often, spend an average of at least $3 a day to satisfy their craving. Morphine, eaten or injected under the skin, costs about $1 a graindose. Its effect lasts about five hours/ Heroin Is less expensive aiul its effect less lasting. Opium, at 50 cents a smoke, is about the cheapest form of narcotic addiction, but is one relatively rare except among Chinese. Addicts: Narcotic-drugs, one of science's most powerful aids in the alleviation of pain and suffering, can also be of incalculable harm to the human mechanism. Constant use of narcotics leads to general lassitude, inertia, mental debilitation, and dulling of nerve-centere. Addiction is neither the burden of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It occurs in all Income classes, In all professions. Even babies may acquire the habit from the milk of addict mothers. Little known among the nation's 100,000 addicts are wealthy users of the drug. One pitiful case recbrded was of a doctor, worth about $500,000, who became addicted to the use of narcotic drugs because he himself had easy access to them for the benefit of his patients. He started his own eight-year-old son on the path of addiction by giving him narcotic-drug Injections, then disappeared. Today the son, 40, Is a penniless addict who knows no trade and has squandered his father's fortune. Many drug addicts, however, are engaged in lawful and gainful occupy tions, and do not appear to be any different from normal members of society. Those who keep doses small may keep an ordinary appearance indefinitely. Others who constantly increase dosage in time develop opiumpoisonlng, and may progress to a point where a cure is impossible. Their skin becomes sallow, their lips livid. Because opium and its derivatives destroy the appetite, seriously addicted persons are veritable walking skeletons. When deprived of the drug they become highly agitated, sweat profusively, and are affected by diahrrea. .. Not content with themselves being on the road to ruJn, "Junkers" are re-, markably successful in introducing their intimates to the habit. More than one-half of drug addicts In the United States today began the unlawful use of narcotic drugs on the instance of people whonr they thought to be their friends. Thus evory two addicts, if left to their own devices, will provide the country with another addict. The only other important cause of drug addiction use of narcotics to secure relief from paingives rise to about 35 per cent of canes. Protection: For the protection of its etttseas from the moral and mental degradation attendant on drug addle tlon, the Federal government through the agency of Its Treaeury Depart inent haw a vast field force of employes who are directly or indirectly t concerned with narcotics. Backbone t?f the Treasury service] squads arc the coinparatively un- I known "T Men." Of their total number. 3.U00, some 4 St) are en gaged III work which Impinges directly on the illicit drug trade. Within the I'nitod States, some 300 "T-Men" are narcotics agents under the direction of Federal Narcotics Commissioner Hurry J. Anallnger. Their work is two-fold. First, they maintain a careful check on the legal nurcotiodrug traffic through recording of drugs purchased by qualified persons. Second, they make invest!-, gut tons which lead to the arrest and I convictions of addicts, unlicensed narcotic-drug peddlers, doctors ami druggists who divert legal supplies to illegal use. In addition, tlio Customs Agency Sorvico, with a total Investigative personnel of about 180 men, maintains watch in 17 districts which include not only the borders of the United States, but the trouble spots of Europe and the Far Fust as well. Willi tile aid of cooperation by foreign police und through the use of their own Investigators and Informers, these "T-Men" are able to greet many a drug shipment on its arrival in this country with open arms. Besides these 480 crack investigators, the Treasury department bus a somewhat less specially trained corps of some 3,000 Customs border patrolmen, Customs Inspectors and guards, watch for all contraband at U. S. frontiers and ports. Cure: The Treasury department takes upon itself the role of doctor as well us detective. At Ixixlngton, Ky., the Public Health Service maintains a farm for 1,000 male addicts, most of whom have received typical yearand-a-day sentences to Federal penitentiaries as a result of their addiction. A block of buildings now under construction at Fort Worth. Texas, will accommodate 1,200 more. Chief end of such Institutions Is not primarily the cure and rehabilitation of addicts, but their isolation from the susceptible society of their fellow men. Progress: Since Secretary Morgenthou sent out his orders last June, progress of the law has been marked. Enforcement of efforts in some sec The Mosquito and How to Exterminate Him The only rational way to fight the mosquito is to destroy | place and opportunity for breeding by the removal of all ^t'ons of standing water within a week of their formaAlso complete emptying every seven days of all un^jCu c?nt"ner?' All pools and collections of water ? be immediately filled or drained to dryness. Collec01 w"ich do not permit of this should be sprinkled with roaene or other oil enough to form a visable coating over 6 entire surface of the water. This should be renewed tr? lwo weeks and also after every rain. The oil stops up 6 '?*thing tubes of the larvae and suffocates them. Among, the breeding places liable ^to .be overlooked *>t the house and yard are the following: Rainwater pud'*? duused wells, rain water barrels, tin cans, old bottles, ;er Janf for pets or chicken, horse troughs, roof gutters Itted with leaves or trash, knot holes in trees, crevices bebranches. All such plaoes where impossible to drain >uld be treated with oil. th ckief ^ important fact about tfhe mosquito is this: a'h|Ut ex',tence standing water their breeding is im^ e as H?e eggs require immersion in water for their ina on- They require at least ten days in water for devel?nt. They do not breed in weeds or damp places. That v l i*'ca! impossibility. They must have water. They ce ar ttT 'n tuck pieces* Mosquitoes do not fly great disThey are usually found near their breeding places. . he mosquito is harmless unless it has previously bittedr Thnai infecled ^dividual. Ve e discomfort1 and disease spread by the mosquito can n?ater'a"y lessened by every man, woman and child J. eir Pert. But to do this we must have a proper underl ?* the life history of the mosquito, and the proper If fk *T*tematic destruction. f..i *bove suggestions are carefully carried out wonri ,?fo?d will accomplished. The Health Officer will and ready at all times to cooperate and give further to every one ^^dedra/tt. V [ I . V ...... Off lo 1*1 Authorized SERVICE For Philco Built AUTO RADIOS The following cars are Philco equipped: Ford Chevrolet . Plymouth Chrysler Dodge Hudson Terra plane Studebaker Packard City Electric Co. E. DcKalb 8t. Phone 194 /%/?/? J!h ok 666 Liquid, Tablet* first day Salve, No** HEADACHE Drop* 30 minutes Try "Rub-My-TI*m"? World's Best Liniment tions of the country have accomplished itH much since September us in the three years previous. In Texas, for instance, narcotics ugents smashed In successive months the (jinsbergMoody und Clvello gungs, largest illicit dealers in the Southwest. In New York, the Customs Agency has u similarly good record, with six major seizures since hist October. In the past few months a rush umong states to adopt uniform narcotic laws has brought the total to 34, while three other states have adequate statutes. Against another and growing evil?the use of marihuana, over which the Federal government has no control?all 48 states now have adopted laws. With increasing cooperation between steamship lines and Federal investigators, Narcotics Commissioner Anslinger had every right to report as he did two weeks ago that the situation is "definitely improving."?The Pathfinder. Italeigli Fremont, 56, mining engineer, is under urrest at Ix>s Angeles, on a charge of assaulting a 13-year, old girl. ' DATfi MIGHTY NATCHEL \ PUTTIN* OUT a NATCHEL SODY | I "Cotton an' cawn is natchel, so natchelly dey wants natchel sody." Uncle Natchel Here's plenty of quick-acting nitrogen, plus at least thirty .. other elements in Nature's own wise blend and balance. :,V- > I y ; j lllf'llSRKfntl'V NATURAL AS TWI GROUND if <dOM S PROM