"In the United States, we have been able to do much with prohibition, although not as much 1s should have liked to do. At any rate, in many states where there is enforcement, the people are richer and happier and the gaols are empty There is more money in the savings banks, the people more contented and the nation is making greater progress in all directions. If the Government of China is not strong enough to prohibit the growing and smoking of opium, the people, particularly. those elements whic'r seem to exert such force in other directions, should devote themselves to this one problem, in the solution of which, to my mind, lies the solution 6f all their major problems. A nation which is handicapped by 0 deleterious a habit, which, in addition to wrecking the morale and undermining the strength of the addicts, also creates the unavoidable temptation of corruption incidental to all forbidden trafic, is faced by political and moral problem upon which the best thought of the leaders of the country should be focussed, 'A prerequisite to China securing her just position among the family of nations is the abolition or govern-rental control of all drugs."
Mr. Morgenthau left. on Tuesday for the United States where he wil celebrate his seventieth birthday with,
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