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known who have traveled this rpad for the same reason. The only instance of a cure that I have ever personally been familiar with was that of Julia I 'comma fargaaxx Ik. fargaaot ttiflpJtj far uqr ia tataatiT ffiftf" ort ta aniob nam i it Dwtaloa'af lrt. Bruns. But Petty May Mvedy, a young girl artist's model who wa hailed the most beautiful faember of pro-essjpn in England a decade ago.

a I fo supposed to have cured herself pf the habit. Her fe was a strange one. She married Raoql Love-day, a frail and delicate young Oxford, poet who later became a djsHpfe of A leister Crowley's dark "devil cult" creed and who died in Sicily pot long after be married Betty May. Mrs. Loveday, to please flaoul, put on the robes of Crowley's notorious "deroon- ist abbey" and associated with that company of esoteric dreamers.

despite her disapproval of Crowley. After the death of her husband. Betty May began the use of drugs to drown her fuvf pvf, Am -wfe Mil CITATION One of the Many tetters Received by Murphj CommendingHU Courage and Proficiency a a Sleuth. This One Came from an Officer in the A. E.

F. Ouring Two -Gun's Pott-War Work in Franca. drugs are sp muph fss gxpepsive when bought from the dQPe bootlegger. I do not suggest tnat the price of narcotics from the recognized vendors js too high. My quarrel is with tfte cheapness pf the contraband article.

Vigorous epforpemept erTprtS should drjve qp the PfPf of ir JJ alleys and on the street corpers pf qaf prtjes. Fpr the lower the price the more addicts will be enabled to con-tinue the habit and the more new pnes wjH be recruited. For pearly gjx yeftra I was a member of the Narcptic Squad. Almost daily nsked life and limb trying to enforce the law against drugs. In company with my fellow agents I made hundreds pf raids, Helped to jail hundreds of ped-, dlers and obtained treatment for hundreds.

of addicts. Sometimes, looking back. I wonder whether all that effort and nsk were not in vain. Is the dope situation in America today any better than it was jn 1923? believe that it is a little better; but the big peddlers still go free and It is StilJ possible fojr anyone to buy 'dope who wants ft and, has. tbp pnpe.

Cjvic leader ShpnW TOf? Amripa leads the wprld in thf consumption of opium- For timmn li no mwe PrPhibi-tion is not responsible for our cnm wave, but dope is and always has beep foe great fomenter of crime, in nothfr chapter i putiined what seemed to me the only way foe dmy tradp could be fought With any hope of suppegs. fnjrgested that a committee of eminent 4optors, lawyers and business men be assembled tp take over generalship rn the war that mwi fought, sooner or ater, tP a finish. have told most of what I know about dope, in America and abroad. I have tried to paint in foe highlights of my career. as an agent, mentioning foe humorous or fTatfc episodes in which I have been involved fld the celebrated or tragic npre I hVP Mown.

If It all points any lesson. It is that dop run like a poison spring through our national life to dfgree seldom realized and that js no respecter of persons or talent, and that fop 'ffaftle of Drugs can only be won by a facing Of foe farfa and a determined effort. With fol? chapter my series of articles comes to a close. hvP tried to give, some idea of the coi)ed mopiter tht lurks ever ready to strike at good nimm nrt nad. enmmais and wm leaders.

nd have given namr and places far as rooid do without mjwry to foe innocent ran only hope for you have been ipter ested- and foat few of VOH WhO hvg read my -try oay hrld Nrk from ny phng of the Remm Poppy delist. I sia mt never my ponnertmn with law enforcement. My own detrtiye Knry will bt open by.fo time foee wnrd Ppr print. ThriHih it I hpe do I ran toward discouragmK fo dPH traffic My peruliar knowledge of lh wnys of foe dop deler nd foetr piefood always foe dtfposa) of foe Federal agents who may be able to use it. Kuntunient, adynnfore and action, which always allrai ted m.

will continue. hope, to color my tutun! as they havir my past. Of course my agency will b'- located cpse to foe bnght hjjht district ot New YotCthe spot the world that is closest to my heart, for all its wickedness, "rackets' and, at bottom; naivete. THE END. nerves jaded by a headlong round of festivities and the need of a "pick me-up" of greater, voltage.

However, I have omitted an important motive where feminine addicts are concerned I ref er to unhappi-ness usually the result of marital disasters. Women SUCCESSIVE STAGES I lntnrU of Btty May Lovtday. Once The LorelieU Artit' Medal is Into the Dope Pit and Dratted Herself Out and Back to Health. From oaf Girl, io the Hopei of the "Demonut" Cult, a Pedraf fled Addict Finally, in Robust Health After Her Victory Over rferielf. sorrpw and oon was plunged into the darkest pit of addictiop.

For a year or two her condition was apparently hopeless. Then, to the surprise of her friends and of all those who know the fate of drug slaves, she pulled herself together to wage a determined anq finally successful fight against the habit. But hope I have shown that for one come-bacji there are a thousand cases where the victim sinks deeper and deeper into the quicksands of his vice. Medical science will do one of its noblest services to mankind when a safe and effective cure for addiction js discovered. So far there is none and doctors everywhere seem to me too willing to dismiss the habit with a wave of the hand and a shrug, to imply that the craving is not a disease like any other in their practice, but a fault that the addict could readily remedy if he would.

It is this attitude that accentuates the drug evil in America today Bootleg Drugs Arc Cheaper Than Thow lgay Bought President Hoover really intends to probe the prnhem of lawlessness in this country he will devote a considerable portion of the investigation lo the drug menace. 1 am positive that if the drug traffic could be decreased by one half crime would be decreased by at least 2h per cent throughout the land In my studies of prison conditions every where have frequently naked "Are they all addicts, oi am I merely getting that impression from chance cases'" Of course tb inmates of our pnaona are not all addicted fo drugs, hut I believe there are few criminologists who would seriously que tion the statement that pearly hxf of them tre The other day I happened to meet An 'd friend of mine, a man who is stiJJ a member of the Federal Narcotic Squad asked, him how conditions were in New York today He told me some surprising things. As I write these words, cocaine and. heroin can be obtained from sources in Sfirk for as low as $12 an ounce The price rough legal channels, on the other hand, ha risen steadily with the restrictions that have been put upon the local manufacture and storing of drugs, until it costs somewhere in the cieih borhood of (125 an ounce get cocaine on a doctor's prescription Thus a premium is put upon the illicit purchase of the drug few addicts will go to a physician for a prescription when and ingenious racket and one for which he need not fear prosecution. When parties of thrill-eager tourists wantod to see the town at its wildest and naughtiest they would get in touch with Chuck.

For a few dollars he would guide them through the Chinese district and show them "real opium dens," with "addicts" lying about presumably engaged in smoking opium. Of course what was actually on view was a collection of paid nondescripts, who went through the motions of opium smoking, probably with harmless Chinese tobacco. The Tragic Case of Kentucky' DlueBloodd Daughter is dead now, but before the end he became widely known. Visitors to New York spread his fame from coast to coast. Unquestionably he did know a great deal about th Underworld and many underworld characters were his friends.

But he was close-mnutheq and canny, the police were never able to extract in formation of value from him and if knew where dope was being sold and used h- never 'squawked," despite nis phony of the lowest dens in Chinatown. In previous chapters have told about a number of beautiful wornen who have spoiled) looks and careers with drugs. have tried to show why, in each case, the victim carnt to partake of the forbidden poppy The reasons have been varied, from mere youthful to appear to be far more crushed by the wreck. of love affairs, on the whole, than men. Several women have told me that they sought the forget fulness that was supposed to reside in narmtica after some man had failed to live up to their roseate expectations.

They embraced qugs ah a substitute for the romance that life had opt given them. One of the most tragic cases of this kind was that of beautiful Annabelle Van Allen, daughter of a blue blooded and aristocratic Ken tucky family Annabelle a career was checkered and complicated by many small misfortunes, but in general she was drawn into the net of dope because of three ooapses of romance Three times she married and each time her husband wan a millionaire, but always her marital ship came to grief After her thifn (jivon tried to drown her uphappinesH with a cocaine loaded needle Of course she only made her plight worse, and in the end per troubles wert? aug merited by poverty The last heard of her was after he? arrest for the non payment of a hotel bill amounting to a few dollar. She, seemed then to he confirmed addict. Pope doeH not dull misfortune and misery, it accentuates them can thjpk of no spectacle more tragic than thai of the young girl blessed wjtn beauty an) family prestige who tries to compensate far the hMghf of her romantic dreams by a descent, to the purgatory of drugs And Annabelle Van Allen is not the only one 1 have if; V3 s' H. i.