anaheim-gazette 1952-01-22

Slave-World in United States Revealed in Narcotics Study (Editors Note: This is the first of a series on "America's Slave-world of Narcotics" in which an alarming number of teen-age children are being trapped. Associated Press writer Don Whitshead has dug into the files of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau and other sources in an effort to show how youths become addicts, how a big-not peddler is trapped, and what audits and experts think would be done to halt the tariff which takes about $152,000,000-a-year from its victims.) By DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON (D)—There is a slave-world in the United States today which is as vile and degrading and brutal as any slave camp behind the Iron Curtain. At least 50,000 men, women and children are prisoners in this twilight world. It has no morals. There are no laws except the laws of greed and selfishness. It promises nothing except a fleeting pleasure and then the pain and misery and suffering of the damned. Anyone may enter who wishes. Each year an alarming number of people either wander in or are lured into this other world. Many deliberately choose to go there. There are no bars. No barbed-wire fences. No guards to prevent escape. Yet few find their way out. They may want to—desperately. But they discovered they have neither the strength nor the will-power to leave once they enter. World of Narcotics It's the slave-world of narcotics which in recent years has become a sinister pied-piper luring more and more young people into the worthless life of a "Junkie"—a dope addict. crime is the only employer who will pay that kind of money to a teen-age youngster. The nation has been shocked in recent months to learn there is a slave-world including a growing army of youngsters less than 20 years old. This shock came largely from disclosures made by the Senate's Crime Investigating committee headed by Senator Kefauver (D-Tenn), and by hearings in New York and Detroit. No matter how fantastic the story—it is true. A school official in New York City has conceded that one out of every 200 junior and senior high school students in the city probably is a user of narcotics. That's about 1500 youths. And he said another 3500 teen-agers who are not in school may be using dope. Pay Up To $10 A Day Chew on that one a while. Five thousand teen-agers in one city each, paying up to $10 a day or more in a desperate search for a "thrill" or to avoid with more dope and awful sickness and pains that come when the effects of one shot begins to wear off. They are on a treadmill which has no end unless they can be cured or denied narcotics. Government officials, educators, experts on juvenile delinquency and others have become alarmed at the increased rate of addiction among the boys and girls of high school age. The average age of the "junkies" has dropped in recent years. In 1948, there were only 26 non-profit groups that apply for exemption from federal tax to certain non-groups which are exempt from come tax as charitable, re- or educational organizations, collector of internal revenue out, however, that many su-organizations do not come to the provisions of the new law titling them to exemption admissions tax. The collector's office ex-that exemptions from the tax not be taken by any organi-merely because it believes it qualifies as a non-profit org-ation. In each instance appli-for exemption must be ma-Form 755, and the collector return to the applicant a-755-A, either granting or denying the application. This process says the collector, must be c-出 before admission tickets be printed without showing tax thereon. Many groups, believing they qualify as exempt from mission tax as "educational organizations" have forwardedplications for exemption to collector's office, when, as a-tter of fact, they are not ex-to exemption. In order to q-for the exemption, an educa-organization must maintain-nular faculty, and curriculumnormally have a regularly o-lized body of pupils or studen attendance at the place where educational activities are re-ly carried on, in addition to a non-profit organizationthe law. It has been held by the B-OF Internal Revenue that But they discovered they have neither the strength nor the will-power to leave once they enter. World of Narcotics It's the slave-world of narcotics which in recent years has become a sinister pied-piper luring more and more young people into the worthless life of a "Junkie"—a drug addict. Right now this slave-world exists in such cities as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans and Philadelphia as possibly the worst examples. But it has no boundaries. It could become a part of your home town. It could spread into your schools as it has spread into other schools. That is the purpose of these articles—to sound a warning and perhaps to give a little understanding of what makes a "Junkie" and what can and is being done to help destroy this slave-world. It's a world that is built almost entirely on the street-corner sales of stolen or smuggled narcotics which bring in profits making pikers of those who traffic in mink and influence at 5-per-cent. Heroin is the favorite narcotic of the Junkies. It's made from the juice of the poppy seed. A pound of heroin is worth about $300 in Turkey. That same pound is worth from $75,000 to $100,000 on the sidewalks of American cities. All Will Steal, Kill For these profits men will risk prison, steal, kill and commit all manners of crimes. Men, women and children willingly take the same risks to get money with which to buy the stuff to satisfy their craving for more and more narcotics. Less than three weeks ago Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents staged the biggest crack-down on the slave-world in the nation's history. They rounded up more than 500 suspected peddlers believed to have supplied addicts with more than $18,000,000 worth of illicit dope yearly. Toastmaster Head Lauds Services Of Goodwill Combination of cast-off humans and cast-off materials turns both into something useful, and that is the mission of Goodwill Industries of Orange county, guests at a Goodwill directory meeting yesterday were told by Ralph Smedley, member of the board and founder of Toastmasters International. Mrs. Wilbert Bonney of Anaheim, president of the Womans' Society for Christian Service, said that she was "most enthusiastic" at what she had learned of the humanitarian agency's work with on a treadmill which has no end unless they can be cured or denied narcotics. Government officials, educators, experts on juvenile delinquency and others have become alarmed at the increased rate of addiction among the boys and girls of high school age. The average age of the "junkies" has dropped in recent years. In 1940, there were only 26 teen-age patients admitted to the U.S. Public Health Service hospitals at Lexington Ky. and Fort Worth, Texas. In the last four months of 1950, the number in this age group had jumped to 700. Most of these came from Chicago and New York and a few other large cities. Almost all of them came from broken homes, from families where there was no discipline, or from crowded neighborhoods which held out little hope of a better life to a younger. But many come from good homes and from respected, well-to-do families. It's a grave problem that is as hard to solve as it is to explain why anyone would dare enter the narcotics slave-world. (Tomorrow the story of two teen-age "junkies"—a boy and a girl who became slaves to narcotics.) 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The "word airlift" works this way: Cpl. Martin Weisinger, 21, or Orange county, guests at a Goodwill directors meeting yesterday were told by Ralph Smedley, member of the board and founder of Toastmasters International. Mrs. Wilbert Bonney of Anaheim, president of the Womans' Society for Christian Service, said that she was "most enthusiastic" at what she had learned of the humanitarian agency's work with the physically handicapped. Mrs. Nan Moore of Anaheim is a member of the Goodwill Industries board of directors. Smedley told the meeting that Goodwill Industries work with the physically handicapped, keep them off the state public relief rolls. "We see that they are not only fed and sheltered, but also are given a chance to keep their self-respect through self-support." In charge of the hospital's theatre records a patient's message to family. After overcoming the first mike fright, Martin says, soldiers talk freely. One of the talked for 22 minutes. The tape is air-mailed to corporal's parents, Mr. and M.Lou Weisinger; here. They note the parents or the wife as soon they receive the tape. Mr. and Mrs. Weisinger take their recorder to the family house and play the message. Weisingers give them the tape they want it. Then the family cords and answer which is mailed to Cpl. Weisinger. He plays it to the soldier, who in turn cords a reply. Some of the conversations have been going back and forth a half dozen times. The Weisingers have been ing this for seven months. If You Drink! Don't Drive U.S. to Plan for Buck Rogers Era NEW YORK (UP)—Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson wants American industry to begin planning now for "the weapons of 1960 and 1970." "We are preparing for a Buck Rogers era, the atomic-fission, supersonic, electronics age, when yesterday's brilliant ideas are already on the way to the scrap heap," he says. Thus, he told the American Institute of Electrical Engineers yesterday, "we are clamoring for the ideas of tomorrow." He referred to "new, fantastic weapons" operated electronically and added: "Our awareness of electronics is emphasized by his use on the part of the enemy. In recent months, out plane losses in Korea have been due much more to action from the ground than from action in the air. It is obvious that the enemy's anti-aircraft batteries are electronically directed." Our losses, Wilson said, included "some of our very latest and fastest planes." And that, he added, is "something that's very worrisome." For Health, Eat California Fruit "AGRICULTURE DAY" plans are discussed by students and faculty to be held at Santa Ana college Jan. 22. Shown above Norman Rose and Robert Butler, Garden Grove high school culture students; representing the cooperative marketing co- and public speaking contest; Paul Borchard, Santa Ana co- agriculture student and president of the Santa Ana chapter of California Young Farmers; Paul Andres, agriculture institute at Santa Ana college; and Forrest Dunivan, agriculture instructor of Garden Grove high school and chairman of the Women's Cooperative Assn. TORONTO (UP)—A New York educator put in a good word for television last night. It tends to encourage reading and teaches the youngsters to speak prosaic Gertrude Hildreth, a artist in reading instructed Brooklyn University. 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Write Office of the President. Arab Selects Arkansas College for Its Full, Free, Friendly Campus Life JONESBORO, Ark. (UP)—Officials at Arkansas State College here have a puzzler on their hands: What to do with a 20-year-old Arab whose life savings were spent on a trip to the United States for a free college education. Schukki Mohammed El Khatiri appeared at Arkansas State yesterday, saying he was ready to begin classes. He had only $10 in his pocket—all that remained from the sale of a farm in Israel to finance his trip to America. Khatiri gave Dean of Men Robert Moore this account: After finishing high school in Jerusalem, he started writing letters to colleges in the United States in hopes of completing his education. Scores of colleges sent him catalogues. And then a form letter from Arkansas State arrived. It stated that "campus life at State is full, free and friendly," and Khatiri took the sentence literally. He decided that Arkansas State was the place for him. He got $400 for the small farm left him by his late father and used the money for a steamship ticket to New York. He arrived in this country with $50. Khatiri decided that wasn't enough to get him to Arkansas. He visited a friend in Portland, Me., who gave him $45. Khatiri arrived at Jonesboro yesterday. He had $10 left. Dean Moore said the slightly built young man is being quartered in the men's dormitory until school officials figure out what to do. The dean said an effort would be made to get Khatiri a job if he could raise $300 to finance his first year's study. NEW YORK (UP)—A government civil anti-trust suit has been filed against the International Business corporation (IBM), the largest manufacturer of tabulating machines and cards in the world. BOSTON (UP)—A Federal Court jury which will decide the guilt or innocence of Denis W. Delaney, ousted Internal Revenue collector for Massachusetts, today awaited instructions by Judge Charles E. 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