A Call for International Action to Suppress Traflic Peking, Nov. 10.
The International _Anti-Opium! Association has received the follow-j ing communication from the China Club White Cross Society, Seattle:
Enactment of the Jones-Miller) Bill having been secured, two other great narcotic measures now call for our support, one of them national and the other international.
The national measure is one pro-! viding care and treatment for the! victims of narcotic addiction. A moderate estimate of their number) is from 50,000 to 1,000,000. No! provision exists except a few private hospitals and the gaols and! lunatic asylums. With adequate! care, many may bq saved and; others kept from spreading addict tion. In August, 1919, a Bill was introduced by Senator Joseph T. France, of Maryland, which provid. ed that the Federal Government; should add. an equal amount to all appropriations made by the several States. It also appropriated sur-
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