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The difficulty of convincing Congress in Election year worries MCC. Washington is excited by his

hint that, being half-American by birth, it would save frouble if he ran for President himself.- cow's spr

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China, Middle East, Armaments,

MIKE

TAFT!

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PRESIDENT

HATS IN THE RING IN U.S.A.

World Cornight. My arrangemens with boily Trevasé.

LOW

Soldier And Civilian Share This College

London.

By HAZEL MAY

chiefly the Commonwealth, detall. In some cases study may Na former German pri- are engaged in a courge

be assisted by a demiustration. The fingi stape in exercises in- soner-of-war camp, 20

volves the use of all three Ser- odd miles from London,

vices in a combined opération, between 80 and 90 men

both on a major and a minor scale-from. say, Operation gather most days of the

Overlord 10 the capture of year to study co-operation

Madagascar. in modern warfare.

They are mostly soldiers, but, and this is the unusual feature of this "school" the civilian has his place in it, too. We find in it a Dis- trict Commissioner from Kenya, and maybe a high- ranking U.S. serviceman.

The selected "students," from all parts of the world,

DOPE GRIPS U.S. TEEN-AGERS

LIKE A RAGING DISEASE

such

border ment anti-drug agents, there is a quantities and states as California naturally war on show the highest addiction rates -but it cen be and often is grown in anyone's back garden. Marijuana smoking is only step to more endaving addic

By R.M. MacCOLL.

New York. I have believed it possible to find NE of the darkest so many youngsters up against the needle. We have been lock domestic problems ing up teen-agers one after the with which America other." has had to grapple What startes

this

horrible since the war has been the threat to a great nation's health? sudden spread like some There are three causes: raging disease of drug- taking by teen-aged children.

The general restlessness and which hectic atmosphete always attends the aftermath of

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under the aegis of Britain's Ministry of Defence. Little publicised, it is the "Junior" Staff College of the Com- monwealth.

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Membars of the course are divided into a number of syndi- cates or study groups for the exercícia. Each purpose of syndicate, containing seven eight men, is under the direa- tion of a member of the staff arid consists of two nával officers the R.A.F. and usually a civi two Army officers, a member of

an arid an American.

It is the brain child of three of Britain's greatest fighting men. In 1047 Field-Marshal Montgomery, Air Marshal Ted- der and Admiral Cunningham sat down round a table to dis- cuss how the principle of fault- less co-operation of the three services, Navy, Army, Air Force, not only of this country, but of the entire British Cum- monwealth and her allies, could

best be conveyed from staff level to the fighting men. Sequel The preparation of papers in- -the "Junior" Staff College, volves considerable study on al- whose charter declares that the most every aspect of military purpose is "to train officers to planning. The College has a All appointments on joint Ser- well-stocked library of books

vice staffs".

Representation

Men selected for this course must be over the age of 32, and are usually drawn from the ranks of Major or LI-Colone), Wing Commander and Com- mander, R.N. Representation of cach of the three services on the courses is usually fairly equal. All the

the Dominions are invited

not sent has

The Scope

оп military, naval and air strategy. It is looked after by a skilled librarian, Lt-Colonel E.H. "Whitfield.

Throughout the course the men have the opportunity of hearing lectures, not only by all the leading military ex- perts of the day, but by pro- minent men in the Govern- ment and from industry and the professions.

The scope of the lectures “ is

send their representatives, designed 10 cover subjects and America sends four -- one which, however diverse, have from each service-on every some bearing on Service affairs. соцгне. On the six-months Congress is considering a new course (Just concluded), Canada, A Bishop is invited to speak Bill which provides much stiffc: Australia, New Zealand, Pakis- on "Christian leadership",

"Lord penalties for violators of the tan, India, Ceylon and Rhodesia Moran, President of the Royal South Africa College of Physicians, on The existing anti-drug Arts, and also are represented. makes minimum big prison sen-

the Fighting a delegate this Psychology of

Mr Vincent Tewnan, tences and fines compulsory for time, but has been represented Man",

on all the o'her courses.

General Secretary of the T.U.C. on Trade Union Organisation, Next, in too many cases, will certain types of offenders who

At least one scientist is in- and the Chairman of the Burma have so far got off lightly OT

cluded in the six civilians who Oil Company on oil questions, come heroin ("it gives

attend every courge, while drawn from home bigger kick") at first sniffed up through the nose, late. injected

others are Ministries such as Labour, Food straight into an artery.

and National Insurance. They are selected by a Board formed

Sixty of the course's ninety by the Minidry of Defence and the Treasury.

lectures are delivered by out- side lecturers. Montgomery

Slessor, "It is of the utmost im Mountbatten portance that the civilian and Alanorcoke and Daniel are some the serviceman should under- of the famous names on this

you

in

This

scot fres

All authorities agree that the most effective way of halting this

The children raught sordid trap are often driven to disastrous contagion is to try to in cut off the imports of dangerous stealing or armed robbery order to get money to satisfy the drugs from abroad. craving a "shot" may cost from one to five dollars).

In advanced cases the wretched addicts must nd as much as 80 o 40 dollers a day

An automatic reflection by

Full addiction brings on among the teen-agers of the broken

hideous children all the divorced homes and

parents the

seen among which a large proportion of them effects which are have as background.

Special juvenile courts in a great war big cities from New York to California report the same grim tule. And, even more sombre, there is at present, and in spite of great efforts to check it, every sign that the habit is spread ing as quickly as ever.

Until two or three years back nobody had even heard of teen-aged addicts. The terrifying problem has jumped into reality almost

The "craving for

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11 W which thrill nags at many of America's young people and which is encouraged by anything from "dare" given by В school - fellow to the more sinister promp

the criminals

who makes it a profession

overnight. Now it is esti- ungs of one of mated that there are 10.000 juvenile "junkies" in New York alone, and perhaps to peddle dope to 40,000 to 50,000 in the children. country.

SHOCKING

Another measure before the Senate has the backing of many people.

NEW CURES

adults--loss of normal personal- THIS could enable the courts to Sentence to life imprison- ment a man convicted of selling to minors.

THE JARGON

THE shadow: world of the drug addict and the dope peddler bas its own. jargon. Sampits :-

JUNKIES-drug addicts &NORTING - mine heroin through the nose.

MAIN-LINING --- injecting heroin talo an artery,

REPEATER – drug ofender convicted twice of more

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in Detroit: "We have could swallow. Then there were

a

Bul whatever

Fampus Names

sland one another's problems", cou

course's viriting book. Service declared a member of the chiefs of other nations are in- directing staff to me during vited to give a description

of a visit to the College. "The their country's armed forces. civilian is also able to pass on

General

Gruenther, Elsen- valuable information on large-hower's Chief of Staff, was scale organisation which is of recent speaker.

great use to the staff officer".

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An important part of the

ity. loss of moral

end sense, tendency among

a hill overlooking green Buck- and economic problems of each the boys to crime

the Federalinghamshire meadows. At the Dominion. All the Righ Com- and among the

(United States) Government may foot of a typical English garder enissioners in London are invited girls to drift on

decide in Washington, it will be is a winding trout stream, and to talk on their countries. Mem- to the streets.

Doctors at the up to the various States to come there are playing fields for lel- bers of the current

moments, are sure

comparatively cente Federal Narco- into line, something they tics

Addiction often slow to do. Hospital.

The College stands on top of course is a study of the defence

at

Lexington, Ken- the Union, only two have drug

tucky (where in

last dreadful

At present, of the 48 States of addiction as en offence on their i

Tare.

course re-

both aides of

Kashmir dispute presented an

the

cently heard

by successive days

High Commissioners of Pakistan, and Ninety Lectures

India. The importance of an understanding of colonial prob- The staff of a dozen high. lems is shown in visits from ranking officers has its head- many Colonial Office officials quarters in a red-brick Victorian who lecture on various subjects. country house, once the seat of Lord Chesham.

Members of the course spend Here, in halls

我 week

at Portsmouth, when skire, hung with lion and tiger old prints and regimental groups they go to sea

on an aircraft

do

air-

1948 only three Statute books. But slowly, across percent of those the country, social and hospital treated

were workers are doing their patient under 21, but 18 best to try to ameliorate or cure percent were juveniles

the ravages, watching the America is a land of sudden year).

New methods are being tried fads and crazes. Mort of these spectacle of the "cold turkey

(the sudden and tobil out at such damous hospitals as are the mess quarters for mem- carrier and see a full-scale battle

in New York,

trips...on where bers of the course, but all the exercise. They. Bellevue, cure" are not dangerous.

from the youthful patients are

given work takes place in the adjoin- MTBs, coastal craft and in sub- withdrawal of drugs

which once

jet ing camp

housed marines. I can remember when college patient) report that young boys "rehabilitation courses."

there craft 107 fy'in

three days spent at boys across the land were seeing kill someone to get a shot now."

Often it is a heart-breaking German prisoners of war. story of hopes fading, promises are spacious halls where 90 RAF bomber and fighter stations,

very and they attend air AYS a Federal grand jury how many ve goldfish they

hours,'h delivered every lectures are What ta do about 11? An broken

course, Prison cells have been week is spent at Army estab- to report conditions of the the flagpole sitters. Alas, the aroused and horrifled America

But there is one bright spot; converted into map-lined rooms lishments, including some time is something does not mean to let all this go unlike adults who when they set with conference tables where on Salisbury plain. They also most shocking nature. drug

take up drugs, are almost always a score of historie. Operations study problems of management and industry at such centres as Young people between 14 altogether different.

in the grip of a psychological are fought again-on paper.

the Ford Motor Werks and de and 21 have become con-

where last In most cases it all starts with

From Congress,

eraving to begin with, children

What is it like to be a "new Havilland's, and spend a day at firmed and inveterate users a boy or girl being slipped a Jume three unidentified tren-aged are in the overwhelming major-

"rcrfer" by an older friend. of heroin."

addicts publicly told a committee ity of cases doing It because of boy" in this modern school in the London docks.

the art of war? Colonel R.E.B. Long of the Rhodesia Staff Corps In New Orleans the police A reefer is a cigarette made of of MPs their case histories (one the "thrill."

If they can be caught early summed it up for me, report that it is spreading like martjuana, or Indian hemp. It is girl was spending up to 80 dollars wildare," and in St Louis. an especially difficult drug, to a day on drugs at the end) on enough the habit can be tended among women's clubs, off before it has had time to dig Missouri, the chief of the anti- control. Not only is it smuggled down drugs squad says: "Never would over the Mexican border in Vast social workers, and the Govern- its claws into them irrevocably.

craze

by default.

WHERE MEDICINE ENDS-AND ‘DOPE' BEGINS

⠀⠀ By CHAPMAN PINCHER 'NARCOTIC drugs obtained from plants are among nature's greatest blessinga because of their astonishing capacity to deaden, intolerable pain..

BUT FOR thousands they are We's greatest curss.

THE NINE druga listed below are the most important :

MORPHINE—is made from opium. an extraog of the white poppy.

Use: Cliven by 'mouth or injected, 19 is the most directive drug for the relief of extreme pain. It ab helpe the patient by Induiding sound sleep, By Abuse? Taken sa “dope” by hypo

dermio injection; I

«virtually) Kapowskie. Witho

crystalline subsianda also made from morphine

Use + It relieves coughs and is sco- mined in some pain-killing drugs sold over the diámists' counter,

Abuse Codeine addicts are rare. But the drug must be considered as highly dangerous, although it is ten tires wesker than morphine.

OPIUM--the full extract of the poppy is used in medicitis, though it is most important se a source

· of morphina. Doctora prescribe it for the refer

of pain "and" to alleviate® doughing in pneumonia: A van de

Abuse Emoked in a pipe or wallowed. It brings about the mouse Task Oji plantiskola "Asmontons, se morphine, though in s tiskia wakker degree-and thy:meme" berrikying craving Oplum Wing was common in Briain bout

Leaves of Indian temp. It has no medical use. Smoked in cigarettes called "reefers" it produces a pleasur able sense of inlid intoxication. * Tue wit seems sharpened. time seems endlessly extended.

Marijuana is a serious drug because It leads to the taking of" stronger "dobes."

HASHISH-is an Oriental form of marijuana which is smoked or chewed. It produces a : " doped"". fleep lika oplum, from which the addilet wakens refreshed but with a. Ktrange feeling of unreality. Exocan leads to epilepsy. and inamnity.

COCAINE - dem, bitter powder extracted from the lesyos of the coca “plant of Peru."

but has been puperseded by subuti which do not cause kddiction. injected by intila beatusental plivalons power, soolanes falign, and FT BEDRIVING DEPOS

"It was a pretty shattering

just like starting at school all over again".

Real Lesson

Here are some of the com- experience" he said. "It was ments. I heard from Dominion

representatives on the course,

General S.M. Afzal of the The similarity to school does not stop at the first Impression, Pakistan Army aid bad "Students" soon find themselves been told this experience was with more "prep" than they ever worth 20 years on the general did in their schooldays and 50 staff. I would say it equiva

to

to a lifetime. We could attend. Tent compulsory lectures A triangular programme I never hope to gain such know- made up of exercises, lectures ledge of every conceivable prob-

lem of war, or of the innuite de tall behind the organisation of each of the three services, from

■ normal service career". Bald Rhodesian Colonel Long The first six weeks of the 'We realise how latalar we re course is given up to single ex- at home; the real terson” of co- ercises by each. Service in turn, operation on a hitherto un- in order to teach the other two dreamt of scale-l brought the main difficulties of planning home to `us”.

and visits.

and

Main Difficulties

| performance,

"Kenya DC., Doug

"It is essential in carrying out who had an exciting an operation that each Service when appointed should appreciate the problems In-Chier

which face the others" said an on exercises that Instructor. "We have had top Canadians,

much trouble za br pin with ven and Commmanderas kopa o admirals and paneril quatrol Lubet, the enthusidam lids over the relative imports what is learnt bure of foe" ance of their particular discuition behind mape Opan