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DrR. CARLETON SIMON
50 EAST 58TH STREET
THE BLACKSTONE
NEW YORK

 

TELEPHONES: REGENT { ccs

October 18, 1927

My dear Dr. Kolb:=

First of all I wish to congratulate you upon the article,
reprint of which you sent me a few weeks agoe It was comprehensive and
very fine. I forgot to mention it in my last letter to you due to the stress
of other thoughts. ©

As far as Hobson is concerned, the enclosed letter of Oct 8th
¢ poth letters which you can return, the other being a broadcasting request)
was the tirst news I had of the projected conference. I called upon the
editor whom I know or rather had met once or twice and I told him of the
danger of appointing me as a delegate, stating that the Hobson crowd would
use my name as giving:support to his movement upon the literature of the
Conference in those who were present. What I suggested was to keep my
neme out of it and that I go there simply as an expert for them to write a
critical review of the proceedings for his Journal. I actually counselled
him not to mix up at all in the matter and questioned the wisdom of my even
going theree Upon this I desired your attitude and counsel.

I did promise to speak on the radio, the Fifth of Novemeber
upon the narcotic question, feeling that this gave me angopportunity to correct
any outstanding statement of this conference as it would’fractically at the
Glose of the conference and absolutely independant of it? especially as I
understand that the Hobson crowd would radio frequently as a symposium upon
the Hotel Roosevelt radio station, the name of the station this minute I can-
not recall, but my talk of fifteen minutes will be on annther station not
used by theme .

Next Friday or Friday of this week I expect to speak for a
few minutes before the Ne Y. Confederation of Womens Clubs and I am going
to mention the school children addicts, which is the Hobson propaganda and

am going to offer a hundred dollars fuxrxuyergxeagse to go to charity for

every case or any case that may be presented to me in person, not heresay,
of any school-child found to be an addict. In short I am going to challenge
such propaganda . Dont you think this is a good idea ??? The Depart-
ment of Education enrolling yearly over 1,000,000 school children of all
grades have not upon record a single instance nor have they one upon record.
I also met Prof. Chamberlain of Columbia who is going to the Hobson Conf.
but who told me he is going there to use them to get them to support his
hobby and that is universal state narcotic laws independant of the Harrison
Lawe I told him thathhis name would be used and thus delude others in the
belief that he wassupporting Hobson but he took the attitude that he had
something to put oVer of material benefit and the method justified tha what

he was after. I think something should be done to offset, the wave of
hysterical mis-statements of facts which pervades the entire subject all the

way from Hobson to narcosarn and other fakese Sincerely yours,

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