DR.CARLETON SIMON
S50 EAST S8TH STREET
THE BLACKSTONE
NEW YORK

 

TELEPHONES: REGENT } {foes

November 7, 1927

My dear Dre Kolb:~

Your handwriting and my own cre somewhat similar, hard to
decipher and it is no wonder you got Dr. James T. Maddens eddress wrong. He
lives at Pawling, Ne Ye

In a few days the Police Journal will com out and publish
my radio talk, which I @ ve last saturdsy night. I did not mention Hobsons
name but assailed the propagandists for trying to alarm the public and said
that school-children addicts were myths. I also denied the great number of
addicts but said they estimated abcut 30,008, When you get it you will find
ita sane and logical talk, for after all you and I know the game and mov how
mich exageration haw taken places I also spoke of duplication of police
arrest and how the great number sometimes and usually was a repitition of the
rearrest of the same individual. I did this to show how the Buimistedxs
calculated number of addicts may also be discounted if taken from records.

What however is more to the point I had a very confidential
talk with Com. Harris of the N. Y. Depart of Health and counselled him te leave
Hobson alone as it seems pressure was brought upon him to talk on the Hobson
platfoimm.-. fo the great credit of Dr. Hubbard of his department it may be
Said that he agreed with me, even though not knowing my attitude, the con-
versation teking place over the phone and then Harris took my view-point.

I have furnished him from my files the row that the 1. M. A. Jounral or rather
the attitude that the Journal took toward Hobson. So I won something against
your enemy and am glad xexatx of it. By the way it seems that there is going
to be a committee appointed(to white-wash, this is what I surmise) to investigate
Narcosarn and the condition of narcotic affairs in Nl ze Cne of these men are
Dr. Lambert, the other already selected is Dr. Nichols? State Depart cf Health
who by the way has already been approached by Warden Schleth and whose conversion
to Nercosarn I heard Schleth proundly boast. Se the cat is already in the bag.
This Harris knows and xtm it would not suprise me if Harris beat the appointment.
of this Committee and appointed his own and I have suggested your name, that of
Dr. Hubbard and my own as a committee of three. Harris is going to think over
the mattere Please donot intimate that you know anything of this plan to
anyone or even later if this plan goes through. In the event that he determines
about his matter fevorably he will kwexxx no doubt write Surgeon General Cumming
direct asking for your services. Personally I thin it would be « wonderful
thing for then we could get the real truth about the whole mtter and not be
forced to accept a political expedimaey. I only hope that Harris can or
will be able to carry cut this idea.

sincerely yours,