The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 13, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
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DOPE FIENDS.
Will Do Almost Anything to Get a
"Shot."
When St. Louis was being flooded
"With counterfeit dollar bills several
months ago a young man about 24
years old walked into the office of
the United States district attorney in
the federal building and told officials
that he wanted to make a confession,
relates a St. Louis dispatch.
He said that he and a former engraver
in the United States treasury
department at Washington, were living
in a houseboat near Carondolet;
that his companion had been engaged
in manufacturing the bogus banknotes
and that he (the informant)
had been circulating them throughout
the city. He had become conscience
striken, he declared, and had
decided to tell the whole story and
take the punishment. His tale was
thoroughly plausible and was told
with a wealth of detail that convinced
his hearers that he was telling
the truth.
After the narrative was completed
the young man's face took on a look
.of agony. He clasped his hands to
his stomach and writhed as if in great
pain. He explained that he was subject
to cramps and the officials had
him-removed to a city dispensary,
v still apparently undergoing intense
suffering. Physicians there administered
several injections of morphine
and the patient rapidly recovered.
When the drug had thoroughly
uermeated his svstem the man's
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whole demeanor changed. He seemed
to be ecstatically happy. Then
he made another confession more
I startling than the first. He said
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that for six years he had been a morphine
addict; that since the stringent
I* " Harrison law had gone into effect he
had been nnable to obtain a supply,
and that the entire story fie had told
the federal officials was a pure fabV
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rication, invented in a last desperate
eiffort to obtain a "shot" of that
& which his body craved with such an
iv intensity that all scruples were swept
aside.
Register as Physician.
Thi6 is but one illustration of the
lengths to which drug addicts have
gone, of the lies they have told,
tricks they have planned to get their
v(, "dope" since the new drug law became
effective March 1. They found
to their consternation that the law
was rigidly enforced from the day
ft was in force, that it provided such
aevere punishments that few druggists
or physicians had' the temerity
Jr to experiment as to whether or not
?|1. it could be made elastic. The supply
was cut off as suddenly as if the vicm
tims had been placed on a desert island.
The Harrison law prohibits all
persons from selling or giving away
-fcabit forming drugs without a physician's
prescription, or under the direct
instructions of a physician. The
penalty for violation is a fine of not
more than $2,000 or imprisonment
for not more than five years or both.
That doctors, dentists, druggists, vet%
erinarians or others who may obtain
r Jf". them, the statute provides that they
p-.p - shall register at the United States internal
revenue office, pay a small license
fee and obtain a supply of 100
blanks, which when properly filled
out establish their right to purchase
, h morphine, cocaine, heroin or any of
fe their derivatives for use in their busI
Iness.
Upon this clause in the statute per.
sons addicted to the use of narcotics
. seized hungrily at a possible means
of circumventing it. Vance J. Higgs,
, assistant United States district attorney,
to whom was assigned the investigation
and prosecution of cases
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falling under the Harrison act,
caught no fewer than 12 addicts in
the act of registering as physicians
- or pharmacists, continued use of narcotics
having warped their judgment,
banished fear and left only an overmastering
desire for the poison.
One of these was a woman who
l had been using drugs for 29 years
and who in all that time had kept
her secret from her family. The
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woman is well educated, well read
and her family is prominent. She
came to the federal building, regis.
tered as a, physician and received the
necessary blanks, but was detected
before she had an opportunity to use
any of them. She pleaded guilty in
federal court to perjury in the making
of a false affidavit and was fined
$500. Nearly a dozen other cases of
this character are pending.
While many drug users have felt
that the Harrison law has been a
curse, to otners it Has been an untold
blessing. Records at the city hospital
where more than 300 persons
were treated for drug habits in the
weeks following the first enforcex
ment of the law, show that many patients
were discharged as cured, having
declared that their craving had
entirely disappeared. More remarkable,
however, says the Post-Dispatch,
are cases which have come under
the notice of the federal officials,
where will power alone was the instrument
of redemption when the
helpless victim realized that his drug
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cuuuea wus were no match for those
HOW IT STARTED. (
Chronological Summary of Events ;
Leading to Mexican Crisis.
March 9?Francisco Villa raided
Columbus, X. M. * ]
March 15?American punitive ex- <
pedition entered Mexico below Columbus.
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March 16?Col. Dodd's famous j
"flying column" entered Mexico be- j
low Machita. (
March 27?Villistas murdered i
three Americans and two other for- ]
eigners at Minaca and Guerrero. (
March 29?Col. Erwin's detach- j
ment rounded up Villistas at San
Geronimo, killing 60; ;four Ameri- <
can soldiers were wounded. <
April 1?Col. Brown's detachment j
defeated Villistas at Aguas Calientes, i
killing 30. ?
April 10?Citizens of three Mexi- ]
can towns ambush Howze's detachment,
killing 1 American trooper and wounding
2.
April 12?Parral citizens and Car- j
ranza soldiers attacked Maj. Tomp- i
kins's detachment, killing 2 Ameri- <
cans and wounding 6; Americans :
killed 40 Mexicans. 1
April 12?Carranza requested the <
withdrawal of American expedition, t
April 13?Maj. Howze and his de- '
tachment reach farthest point south i
of any American troops, in sight of <
Durango line. 1
April 22?Dodd scattered Villistas i
at Temochic, killing at least 2 and \
wounding 4. ]
April 29?Carranza General Obre- j
gon and American General Scott be- ]
gan conference at El Paso.
May 5?Bandits raided Glenn ]
Springs, Texas, killing 4 Americans. <
Mav 10 \Tai T,fln?hnrnp'Q naval- t
ry squadron entered Mexico south of ]
Marathon, Texas. {
May 11?El Paso Obregon-Scott j
conference concluded without formal i
agreement.
June IS?President Wilson order- i
ed mobilization of national guard. <
June 20?American note replying 1
to Carranza's demand, for withdrawal
and threatening Carranza with !
"grave consequences." i
June 21?Troopers of the Tenth <
United States cavalry ambushed near 1
Carrizal. Mexicans allege 12 or 14 i
Americns killed and 17 captured.
of the kind minded men charged with i
the law's enforcement. i
A few weeks after the lid was
. clamped down on the sale of narcot- <
ics there came to the office of the j
revenue officials a woman who is a <
graduate pharmacist, married, mem
ber of an aristocratic family and
strikingly beautiful. ;
For four years, unknown to ier
husband, she had been taking an average
of 20 grains of morphine a
day. She registered as a pharmacist, :
but it was discovered that she was :
playing a ^rick and she was given <
the option of taking the cure or be- i
ing prosecuted. She refused to be !
treated, fearing that her secret
would become known and bring disgrace
upon her husband and family.
That night the woman went home,
and told her husband that she was
going to visit a sister who lives in a
country town in Missouri. She departed
and went to her sister's home, <
but instead of remaining there pro- ;
ceeded into one of the wildest sec- ;
tions of the State, far from human ;
habitation. She arranged to send <
letters for her husband to her sister,
who in turn would post them in her
town. Letters from her husband the
sister enclosed in another envelope
and mailed to the wife.
Then, out where the obtaining of
any form of drug was an impossibility,
the woman who had lied to obtain
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it wnen in tne city iougnt ner Dattie ?
to a finish. She stayed there until ]
her craving was gone and then came ]
hpme. In April a pale, wan creature,
weighing nearly 117 pounds,
she returned in perfect health, with
ruddy cheeks and weighing 135 ]
pounds. Her husband marvelled at ]
the change her stay in the country ]
had wrought, but never guessed the 1
truth. 1
A man who formerly was an assist- ]
ant instructor of chemistry at Cor- <
neli University, whose brothers have (
attained eminence, one of them be- ]
ing one of the foremost lawyers in ]
Philadelphia and another a former r
member of congress* from Pennsyl- ,
vania, was cured of the drug habit ]
by an incarceration of three months ,
in the St. Louis jail, after he had ]
been found engaging in the drug (
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ii aiiiv^ xxx ut? JUV uiot
He was picked up by the police on
Morgan street and confessed that
while he was an addict himself he
also made a handsome profit by buy- ]
ing $1 worth of morphine and selling ]
half of it for $1 to some other unfor- 1
tunate. He was sentenced to four (
months in jail, but released after he 1
had completed three months of the i
term. He emerged a cured man and 1
had gained thirty-two pounds. He 1
had been arrested under an assumed 1
name, but after leaving the jail hunt- (
ed the federal officials, told them his (
right name and family connections
and departed for the east to resume
his place in society. 1
>,000,000 IX SOUTH FOR SKRYICK.
21,071,076 Able-bodied Men is Total
for Whole Country.
How many able-bodied citizens of
military age have we in the United
States? |
The bureau of census, while it is
jnable to make any estimate of the;
proportion who are able-bodied, es-!
:imates that the total number of male j
citizens ana prospective citizens?,
that is, foreign-born persons who
have declared their intention to become
citizens?18 to 45 years of age,
inclusive, is not far from 21,000,000.
This -estimate is based on the assumption
that there has been an increase
of approximately 10 per cent,
in the population of the country since
the census of 1910. When that census
was taken the total number of
male citizens and prospective citizens
18 years of age and over but under
16 was 19,183,000. Of this number,
14,224,000 were native whites, 2,557,000
were foreign-born whites
who had become naturalized or had
ieclared their intention of doing so,
2,053,000 were negroes, and 50,000
were Indians. The number of foreign-born
citizens is partially an estimate
since the census enumerators
were able to obtain information as
to citizenship from only about seveneights
of the total number of foreignborn
males. Native whites thus represent
about 74 per cent, of the total,
foreign-born whites nearly 15
per cent., negroes nearly 11 per cent.,
ind Indians about three-tenths of 1
per cent.
During the Civil war, when the
population of the country, exclusive
3f the seceding States, was less than
sne-fourth as great as the present
population of the entire United
States, the total number of men serving
in the federal armies at one time
and another was approximately 2,500,000
(due allowance being made
for duplicate enlistments, that is,
cases in which men enlisted more
than once.)
The following table gives, by
States, the total number of males 18
to 45 years of age enumerated at the
census of 1910. The figures in this
table include approximately 1,796,000
alien whites and 92,000 Chinese,
Japanese and others, together representing
about 9 per cent, of the to
tal, who would be ineligible for military
service. The census bureau has
not compiled the numbers of these
classes of the population, within the
given age limits, who were living in
each State in 1910. Taking the country
as a whole, however, the probable
increase in population between 1910
and 1916 will approximately counter
balance the number of alien whites,
Chinese, Japanese, etc., included in
the figures for 1910, so that these
figures may be accepted as roughly
representative of the number of male
citizens .and prospective citizens 18
to 45 years of age, inclusive, in each
State and in the United States in '16.
The total number by States follows:
Bulk in North.
Maine ; 156,449
New Hampshire 93,321
Vermont 76,017
Massachusetts 785,581
Rhode Island : 129,131
Connecticut 266,697
New York 2,223,633
New Jersey 617;013
Pennsylvania 1,842,266
Ohio 1,107,888
fndiana 596,682
Illinois 1,369,910
Michigan .... 634,518,
Wisconsin 512,261
Minnesota 505,187
Iowa : 489,826
Missouri 741,180
North Dakota 148,920
South Dakota 143,895
Nebraska 274,507
Kansas 379,730
Total for North 13,094,615
6,006,139 in South.
Delaware 46,139
Maryland 279,818
District of Columbia 80,858
Virginia 410,422
West Virginia 281,179
Morth Carolina 401,917
South Carolina 283,490
Georgia 507,688
Florida 177,152
Kentucky 1 469,711
rennessee 434,641
Alabama 414,454
Mississippi 354,133
Arkansas 321,924
Louisiana 347,518
Dklahoma 366,339
rexas 828,756
Total for South 6,006,139
West Has 1,970,322.
Montana 126,862
[daho 88,839
Wyoming ' 55,886
Colorado 210.637
^e^y Mexico 75,371
Arizona 60,915
Jtah 86,oyu
Nevada 30,489
Washington 350,746
Dregon 196,165
California 687,822
Total for West 1,970,322
rotal for United States ....21,071,076
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Four-year courses lead to the B.
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