DRUGS AND DRINK
CHILDREN ADDICTS.
Shocking Conditions Revealed
In America.
ILLICIT TRAFFIC GROWING.
(By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Received 10 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, February 7.
The House Appropriations Committee has published a report stating that there are 100,000 drug addicts in the United States, this including many professional persons and children.
It is also stated that the illicit liquor traffic is growing, due to the substitution of the scholastic type of dry agents for husky officers.
The report urges the necessity of separating youthful prisoners from older criminals to prevent the latter teaching the former their occupations while imprisoned, especially counterfeiting.
The committee approved the expenditure of nearly £2,(500,000 for Federal prohibition enforcement for the next liscal year.
A former message stated that the Prohibition Commissioner, Mr. Doran, announced that of 2000 "dry" agents only 500 were able to pass the intelligence tests. A simple question was: "If you came upon a truck load of barrels of whisky, which was deserted on a lonely road, many miles from the nearest source of help, what would you do?" The majority of the men failed to answer this question.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 32, 8 February 1928, Page 7
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