(Pa ae j re, HOBSON : the nossvate of the Internatic i Narcotic and ite President, Richerd Pelisbeon:s Sometime in May ,1924 Mrellobeon visited the Public Health | Service Bureau and sougiit to enlist the aid of the Service in his activities. Be was at thet tine interested in Congress print and distribute throughout the country fifty : poe a dennis Raves ond tameomn tauramte Meine cae bet bean Giant tr ne to make & atuly of narcotic drug addiotions So fer as 4+ an Se See TONE SP CONS Cone ay Se en ee The International Nereotic Bdueation Agsociation hed 6 ly come w:9 the attention of the Fublie Health Service ond distribution of Hebsen's article above cade SGA de Gels ahachenten waters tan Ceeche toudhies on teeetes om dume §,1924e The Federal Wereotics Control Board sent a letter oh SEPRSEENES Ne She-Genaeaethee 6o She semene tn ie green at iustaite Ceesenvent Ranchithen, 6 woittek ter. tes patteiites referred toe Hearings Menorendun for The Assistant Searetery of the Treas it wa orroncous and lireliéwin LeHeville of the State Department, and ® member of the Board, who had represented the United States o — committees sent abroad with lirePortor , — and gave tectimony of the Comittee “for the Wiblse Health Service ani pointed out manrous ee ee eed a ae ee oe ws exaggerations in the article, and the Chairnan oe proposed ‘would have ‘cost showk $330,,000+ the Pebhde Health Servi Sevend eepart Sn ny 100 shortly before SS a ane ae a tke aad sare woe at : ) ore weg thet a moral wrong was being gene ty tase es ee eae ee ee narootd. parties - the leader of them Wo « acemernt oe abe ae " rel a on by anyone to whan the lotters were writtene : i © letter abtreneed te certain suvetitues af the demehons, and Surgeon Kolb wore attackad, 4¢ 1s stated by Krellabaon that he statemonte and figures in his articles There is in this. statenent an SS Ste oe eee ee ite Rome s the published hearin: on Senate Goneurront Resolution 10 efor ih wan-aieene Sh auhA agpene fren thie tak be meow: that the > HOE Son Setnene Te etetemente Sn Nig HeCNIRee Service for a “rorised article, copies of viatoh he hea sont to physiokgns in which he urged thon to write the, Sen:tars and Oongroumen sad to endorsing the bills The Anoriean Hedical Aggocixtion had previously severely condemed the I,ternational Nareotic Eduestion Ageociation in on editorials im the abeve mentioned of: ; 10,1924, the falloning stebensnt is mdes “tie Poblte Henith service ooh the Rarcetie a ¢ document, and we anticipate no opposition, hoping to realize the passage of the resolution at this session, unless ~ ealendar becomes too congested. * : Any wninformed person reading this statement would be led to infer that the two Services mentioned wonsidered his | meritorious one and were desirous for Congress to suppert ite this ig rather o remarkable inference for MreHobeon to etteapt to give in the face of his attack upon certain officials of these Services who, in the course ef their official duties, hed given information to the Senate committee controverting his contentionss Another instance in which MreHobson apparently attempts to mislead by sayingu; through inference what he svoids saying directly, is furnished by the e: reacts quoted below from a letter sent to Major ReAsHaynes, a copy of which was eleo sent to me in an effort to enlist my support for the revised articles It appears thet a letter had been writtcesn by the Prohibition Commissioner to Mr«Hobson taking exception to Wfé statement in his article that one ounce of herein would create two thousand addictss The extract is as follows: eo "nbeuk the suber of shdieke that wy be wcentel f with an ounce of heroin, I have inquired of severs) \ dgetors, since the lest session, including Alexander oA Lambert end Cerlteon Simeon of New Yorke While such \ | seston is not probable, the figures used are egerded in the esse of youth as being possiblee" The inference that Lembert ond Simon agreed with him is intereseting in fiew of the following. In a letter dated | Deeenber 20,1924 Drs Lambert has among other thinge this to sey: — "t refused te review this (referring to the erticle) for MreHobsome I talked with him one dey nt dimer, whon some friends asked me to meet him, and refused to go on his committee of reviews — . “fhe statement that one ouee of heroin would veke two thousand addicts, is equivalent to saying thet one~querter ef a grein of heroin would.gmke addicts ‘There is ne justifiestion fer such statement in any way: "Bopgon's document , hended to me by his secretary as being the docunent in quection, ia #0 fall of ineecuracies that it would be « misfortune to have it breadeasted and published by Congress. "You may use this letter as you see fit, I heve already said the equivalent te lir-Hobson's | secretary." sensiety PPR CRTESELE TE step RATIO Deoter Lasbort also sont on adverse oriticton of the artiole fund __T® aypoars ot ireligoaon bad sougst Financial support fer rged. aanhen from thie pune and the A grchsapee eure at peat , Wareotic Division of ites York City. lo ts responsible thoweane school endldren of How Yorks ‘Sinon alse hoads the ) medord s of thio burem covering, seven inuntred eltics ond waer ref auruxtaee at seems nt yt f 4 wees! the atatomant that one oumce of herein will oreate two thousand addictes The fact is thet a search of medical we hes failed to show anything thet would lend support to eny such contentions In e levter dated demmry 86,1925 I pointed out to birellobwor that the deta in hie article were mielondings The Comedttee on Sect we te oan sotlaina ina taaaatee tee , the rosa of the International inrectie cdusetion é carom igen one Ssh Leon! Serots low Anvolea, Californias — jenatantiens fede cttinn one than an Cdbaee taghiohe On Goteber 28 the agsistent direotor ef the atl mal invention Burom wrote to Prohibition Cowniset onvr Rey 4eleaynes, eteting thet Captain Richard had recently informed them that the Troaswry Departwent was eooporating fully with his organisation The Seeretary of the Treasury replied te thie letter ealling attention te certain reports of the y of the Treagury- 5 Public Health Service that controverted the contentions made by Ureliobson's associations He also referred to the attacks made by the association on the three government agencies dealing with narcotic addiction, and said that this would seen to show that there is no very clese cooperation between it and the Government Servicese fhe information that the International Hareotie Education Agsocia: ion releases to the public is appareatly gotten almost exclusively from sensational newspaper reports» Reliable literature is ignored except where some one hes made an honest mistake that happens to support some contention made by the associaione For instance the Treasury Kepert of 1916 is repeatedly referred to as autherity fer the statement that the per capita consumption ef opium iu the United States is thirty-six graing, and tha of certain Rurepean countries one, twe er three grainge Everyone who has studied the narcotic situation knews that this statement was inecorreet when it wag first published end that at present the per capita consumption in the United States is about the same or less then it is in a number of European countries and in Canada and Australias The figures as to this have beon published and lrelleville brought ‘the facts out in the presence of Mrelobson in his testimony on Goneurrent Regelution 10+ Ja spite of this a number of newspaper and magazine articles sponsered by “reHobson appeared later on showing the disparity as published in the Treasury reports Repeated publication in the United States of this misleading statement apparently embarrassed our delegates to the last epium _ conference held in Genewae The repetition ef it by Leré Cecil, the heed of the British Delegation, candied a tilt between him and MrsPorter, who pointed out the erroneous acters of ite Some of the impertant erroneous suntentions of Er.Hgbhson are that there are one million or more addicts in the United States, that addietion is rapidly increasing, that heroin is being made synthetically from coal tar preducts, that heroin addiction is sweeping through the schools of the oowtry, and that the country an im imminent peril frum & growing narcotic menacte The addiction ef and danger te school children is strongly stressed by Mre“obson in all ef his publications I Hgve seene The Narcotic Division has investigated numerous reperts about this in different parts of the country and has found only two addicted children and these were Mexicans living in Texas near the Borders . The investigation carried oa by the Nargotic Division included the public schools in districts containing about one-half the population of the State of California, in which state Hobson had reported that addiction existed to an alarming extent ameng school childrene School tum for The Assistant Seeretary of the Treasury § and police efficiais and judges whe were imterviewed imew of no such eddiction, ond had either not heard thet any addiction was suspected of being present or had heard of it enly through reports given out by My«Hobeon or through en occasional sensational newspaper articles | MreHobson's exaggeration about the addiction ef school children and the actvel facts are here discussed in order to illustrate the lack of reliability of his contentions in generale Tt igs not considered necessary to take up and discuss in detail other things that he claims about drug addiction. - Phere is quoted below an extract from a letter to Decter Kolb from an employee of the International Nereotic Education Agsociation, Mrseliery DeBronsone MreeSrensen wrote from Glendale,California Mey 17,1925. She was thea no longer conneeted with the agseciation — and wes suing or threatening to sue fer unpaid salary. Her aetive in writing this letter was probably revenge and the quotation should be read with this possibility in minds The quotation follows? "t ren across a financial report marked feonfidentialt from the bookkeeper of the delieleAs to Hobsons Bow the letter always states that only $48 of the income goes for everheade Yet this report - ghows that the income last year was $52,000 in round mumbers and the: seleries amounted to $30,000, “ which amount Hobson regeived $20,000.**rethis copy ofa letter to this same mansgex says + ithe cen get Pitty mon, er thirty men even, to give one thousamad dollars a year for five years he will be ell righte Por by that time dudge Gower will be dead and then the association will inhorit upwards of $350,000 and he adds *I am the assoviations* Unfortumately, this is only the carbon copy of the | letter and therefore net signed but the repert on finance is signed." MreHobsen makes the feltexing seetenmets en page eere of the Hoaring on Concurrent Resolution 10: “Bae executive officers are serving at a financial « gaerifiee reaching as lew as 30 per cent of the - merket value of their servicese The overhead at the last ealculetion was below 14 per cente"® | HsS-Cuming, Surgeon aynnnen