j -A VOL. XLI Donme Harrison, De troit beauty, from a por trait painted before drags marred her. Aight- late on which all winds can play!" Thus Donnie Harrison described, her drug-seared soul as she lay in a New York hos pital. Bunny Dorel and her dog were her only friends From the Homes of Millionaires, From the Star s Dressing Room, and From Silken-Hung Studios Comes the Pitiful Tale of Shattered Mind, Will and Health. T HEY start in a silken-hung studio in Back Bay. They end in a shabby lodging room in the south end. And the wealthy Back Bay girls themselves, whom I have seen nightly in luxurious drug haunts, sometimes lose soul and fortune and become derelicts or suicides." This was sobbed out by a woman who lay on a cot in the Boston City hospital, between the horrible spasms of Jerking that are the compensation for hours of wandering through the shadowy pleas ures of the poppy trail. Mrs. Olive Wood, educated, cultured, determined to devote her life to the serv ice of humanity as a trained nurse, left her pleasant home in Orono, Me., for the wider opportunities of the Massa chusetts city. But like hundreds of oth ers she was caught by the deadly lure of "dope" and many long months of her life were devoted to acquiring the most astonishing fund of information ever to be lodged in one brain concerning the workings among the wealthy and socially elect of a big American city of the "Ser pent of the East." It was when she was working her way back to life from an overdose of drugs that she made public incredibly de bauched conditions in the city -which al ways has been considered the hub of culture. , In Los Angeles another woman, young-,, er, less inhibited by tenets of civilization than the Boston nurse, but more start lingly lovely with the olive and black coloring of Old Mexico, talked through her cell bars of strange, shivering, ' wlld ' eyed creatures who steal through the streets of the garden city In search of the poison tif-t dulls shrieking nerves. "??hll9 Mrs. Wood told of the serpent as it winds its coils round the haute monde of the east, Ruby Ruiz described the relentless crushing of the under world of the west. "When you shoot coke into your body you feel able to do many things. But after the first exultation the first ecstasy of hate and love an awful de pression follows. You just worry and worry then. You think of your husband and your children and your folks every thing there is to worry about. "But then you take a shot of 'M.' That is morphine. And it lifts the depression. So you see for a real 'hop party you have tu have both of these drugs and also some 'marijuana' cigarettes. One of these, inhaled lingeringly, rouses an ap petite. Of course it isn't a real appetite, but it helps you to eat, and you must have food, especially if the party is an all-night one. "Where do these' parties go on? Oh, at well-known road houses near the city 8nd at certain little hotels that all the 'hops' know." In Chicago mute testimony to the strength and venom of the serpent is given by the white face of Mrs. Doris Clements Wilson, who was graduated from Wellesley four years ago. It was after she had been arrested for shop lifting that she told of $40,000 dissipated in the space of 12 short months in pur chase of drugs, and a final attempt to steal something that could be turned into money to buy more. Out of Denver comes the all but un believable story of school boys and girls caught within the coils of the serpent; pennies and nickles and dimes begged from unsuspicious parents for the pur pose of buying a "sniff" or a "card" or a "shot." And in New York Broadway still talks cf Donnie Harrison, pretty and sweet and 19, whose story went to the world as she lay in Bellevue fighting out of the drowsy mist of a drug that only recently .was put in the narcotic class when the law banned the unrestricted sale of it. Talented as a dancer, aa actress, a painter. Donnie sought fortune in the "Big Town." Back in Detroit, occasion ally helped by this "girl who despaired," lived her father,' her mother and , her brothers, one, a high school boy, an en thusiast on electricity and mechanics.' All had beautiful faith in the girl whom they believed to be "going it alone and mak ing good." But she was growing sick of a city that as she wrote in her diary "transforms unprotected feminine, souls into a stringed lute on which all winds can play." She had listened to the lying whisper o the "Serpent of the East." And de spite the setting of her life luxurious apartments, champagne, drugs, parties -the "small town" girl found existence unendurable, , held fast, as she was, by those deadly coils. It was about this time that the most spectacular raid ever to startle New York resulted in the arrest of ten Broadway figures, the confiscating of thousands of dollars' worth of narcotics of every sort, opium lay-outs, gold and platinum hypo dermic needles, and other articles hav ing to do with the trail of the serpent. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY ' ' illiif ' CUsie Loftus, once great' actress, kf ' " X startled the theatrical world when t. & ' ' ' - ' -4- arrested in London as she tried to K Jt-l'A I. " , use a forged prescription. . I A hotel that stands within the bright . light district was all but battered down, during he raid, and Ralph Oyler, United States narcotic chief, announced that he had rounded up the heads of Manhattan's "drug ring" and destroyed their strong hold. It was less than a month later, how ever, that the -theatrical world was startled by the arrest of John Paul Jones, the talented actor, following a raid upon an apartment in a fashionable street near the Park. Jones, who appeared prominently in John Drlnkwater's "Abraham Lincoln," and with Alice Brady in "Forever After," and who was featured in "The Hand of the Potter" two years ago when the Provincetown Players put on that play, was charged with having caused many young men and women in Broadway's gay circles as well as in the Bohemian haunts of Greenwich Village, to become addicts. George Tiffany, scion of a wealthy New York family, recently sent to Bloomingdale asylum, was said to be one of Jones' victims. A strikingly beau tiful brunette who gave the admittedly MORNING, DECEMBER 31, Mrs. Effie Pope Hill AJsop, whose spectacular career, beginning at 17, when she eloped with a 77-year-old millionqjie'f ell to its depth recently whiin; she was re moved to a hospital "dcug shot" fictitious name of Stella Gordon, was held at the time of Jones' arrest, which took place in her apartment. ' ' And perhaps the most unbelievable sit uation ever to be brought about in this country is that which sent to the psycho pathic ward Effie Pope Hill Alsop, one time of Macon, Ga., who ten years ago when she was but 17 became the bride of Edward H. Alsop, then 77, a wealthy manufacturer of Pittsburg and Washing ton. , , Mrs. Alsop's record at Bellevue hos pital bore a legend of "alcoholic and drug poisoning." Alsop divorced her six years ago. Still more recently a drug-seared girl of 24, Catherine McDonald, sat in the office of Dr. Carleton Simon, New York special deputy police commissioner, be fore dawa one morning and told of meet ing a woman at dance who introduced her to the "magic needle." The McDonald girl, a : factory worker, soon found that the needle stab relieved , the fatigue caused by her work, which prevented her dancing at night. The woman intro ciuced, her to. a . drug vendor, and for three months she was a faithful cus tomer. "A girl in a thousand" is the 1923 , way city officials described her after she had given herself up to be cured. One of the strangest of London's dope CIVIL WAR VETERAN IN ARIZONA DECLARES SHERMAN IS MALIGNED Famous Epigram, "War Is Hell" and Like Story Comparing State to Lower Regions Asserted to Be Defamatory of Great Man. . BY ROBERT S. DOMAN. OATMAN, Ariz. The G. A. R. has an active dispute on its hands. Dif ference of opinion between Native Sons of Arizona and outsiders from the neighboring states of Nevada, Utah and New Mexico have developed and regret able allegations were made by members of the G. A. R. concerning their fellow veterans. . The , dispute . arose over an alleged statement by Thomas D. Collins of Mid dletown, N. Y., which was published by Frank Strong in the Oatman News. In his statement Mr. Collins, a civil war vet eran, said that Sherman did not say "war is hell," but "war is cruel." J. E. Shank, flagbearer of the G. A. R. and author of the brochure on "The Poi sonous Insects and Reptiles of Arizona," came to General Sherman's defense. He said: "I hope the telegraphic report from New York is not true. A persistent at tempt is being made to defame the name and to distort the historic words of Gen eral Sherman in the east, especially down in Wall street, where the brokers axe ruining the farmers, destroying our cat tle business and generally raising hell throughout this entire, country. (Loud cheers.) "This New York business is the sec ond case wherein General Sherman has been misquoted and maligned. "In October, 1880, the Oatman Q. A R. NO. 53 tragedies was that of Cissie Loftus, once the idol of American theater-goers, co star with Irving and Sothern, a shiver ing, pleading figure before a London bar of justice. She had been arrested as she left a drug store and charged with using a forged prescription for obtaining mor phine. Word of her arrest ' went out, bringing to her aid the fashionable-and the talented of London. Nevertheless, she was forced to spend the night in jail. While she shook with outraged nerves in the courtroom on the day of her trial, the breathless spectators whispered . of the days when she was at the height of her fame as the inimitable Impersonator of Sarah Bernhardt, Modjeska, 'Yvette Guilbert. had its attention called to a similar dis tortion of General Sherman's words. - "In that year President Rutherford B. Hayes came to Arizona, accompanied by General William T, Sherman. ' "When he came to Maricopa Junction, liars from New Mexico and other states said that General Sherman went out on the platform of the railroad coach and said: "What a hell of a country!" "It was stated at that time that Cap tain W. A. Hancock of Phoenix, replied: 'Why, general, it is not such a bad coun try. We have to the north a rich agri cultural valley and the Oatman gold mines. Possibly Arizona Is a little bit warm, but all she needs is more water and better immigration.' "To which the liars of 40 years ago state that Sherman replied: " 'Bah ! . Less heat ! More water ! Better society! That's all hell needs!' . "Now, I know positively and for a fact that General Sherman never made any such - statement," declared Mr. Shank. "And members of this chapter of the G. A. R., 'who have now passed away, could , bear . me out if they were here. The whole alleged conversation was a pack of damnable lies made out of whole cloth and calculated to defame the fair name of our golden state. General Sher man was the best friend Arizona ever had, and I can prove it" (Prolonged a clause.).