If it were unprofitable to grow opium poppies, few would be grown. The opium question is solved: let chemists discover how to make synthetic opium and how to make it more cheaply than the poppy product.
Such was the millennialistic idea put forward, last week, by Dr. Carleton Simon, Special Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City. It struck Special Deputy Police Commissioner Herman A. Metz as such a good idea that he promptly offered a prize of $100,000 for discovery of the synthetic formula.
In such matters, Mr. Metz is something more than a mere layman. He owns many chemical factories. But...
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