50 EAST 587 STREET
NEW YORK CITY CABLE ADDRESS

MANAGER’S OFFICE :
December 2, 1927 BLACKOTEL NEW YORK

My dear Dr. Kolb:-

I received your letter but did not. want to answer
it becfore I had something definite, especially as it required no
immediate reply. What you wrote me interested me although you wrote
in one line using the title Doctor in front of Schleths name. He is
not a doctor but simply a Warden. fe affects a phi@moians maniér ism
by -wearing a beard and talking scientific things qufte glibly.

He seems to be more interested in Narcogarn than appears upon the
surface. Personally he is not a bad person quite aimicable and may
mean well, but he is connected in some way with the narcosarn crowd
,and is to that degree a spokesman. He told a friend of mine who
transmitted the message to me that when he went up to see the State
Commissioner of Health Nichols last year when there was such a roar
about the use of this supposed remedy, that he won over Nichols to his
way of thinking. For that reason it does not surprise me to note
that Nichols among others such as Lambert were appointed to look into
the situation here. Of course it means a white-wash for Lambert
and Narcosarn in general. Otherwise both Dr. Harris and myself surely
would have been asked to join the committee, Dr.ffarris feels real
peeved and put out that he was added to the Committee especially when
the State Commissioner of Health was asked and this is a local sup-
posed survey. Some of the men appointed are good men but will
readily be guided by those who have the axe to grind. As to myself
I am not egotistical to so state but you will agree that my work
has made been of such a nature as to make me to 4 degree national
known as a narcotic expert. But my hide is thick and I see through
the motive and the reasone I had a good talk with Commissioner
“Harris end he wants you and I to have a conference with him upon
certain matters so if you can see your way clear in the mkgm very near
future to run over let me know. It seems to me that it would be
igily gratifying to have a few others, your Department at least make
an independant investigation. Jf you think it possible I will run
over to Washington and talk with Dr. Mc.Coy or with @eneral Cumming
relative to this angle. If it is a nostrum, the makkk medical
profession should mowit. If it is good then lets all kmow ite
I wonder how Fishbein of the Ae M. Ae Journal stands upon this matter
and if someone has put him wise. Let me hear from youe
. Sincerely yours, ,

EAtrDanr