The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 14, 1937, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
? 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.
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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 |
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"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.
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