The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08
VS.. MONROE, HOUSE
Topeka Woman Takes, Issue With To-
bacco-fOr-SOIdicr Supporters.

Editor Topeka State Journal:
The readers of ur city lailies may care
to know that there people in the state
of Kansas that do not support Mrs. Monroe
I'm her tobacco defense and there are wO-
men in the land beside the st. Marys wo-
man who have influential sons in lifes ac-
tivities who do not now nor ever have
used all the tobacco in the catalogue.
Now some of us are wondering why this
prominent Topeka club woman" was not
passed in Kansas-had they known of her
disapproval, surely the senate and house
would never have passed such a law.
| notice by the paper that all moral
issues of the people of the state are here
after to be referred to Mayor House. Now
there are some people who prefer to get
their standards from a higher source.
There is in most homes in this beautiful
state n little black book commonly known
as The Bible" the book that Sir Walter
Scott in his dying hour most desired and
being asked what book, said There is but
with its clear teaching. on clean life is the
standard and is far from supporting our
tobacco friends standards.
telegram containing the Information that
Mayor Houses standard for a kansan is
n little low; he will have to use an aero
get where most Kansans live on moral
standards.
men and Y. NJ. c. a. secretaries and school
professors Notwithstanding Mayor Houses
mayor OF the CITY or the 81 M0TyS WO-
possibly are as wise and efficient as the
mayor Of the city or the st. Mary's wO-
mans sons who are doing their bit for
world democracy, and if the cigarette and
tobacco are so harmless, all the hygiene
and physiology teaching of the text books
in our public schools and the findings of
science on the subject are at fault. ASK
McKeever of the State university. Bur
bank, the plant wizard. does not use the
one who does. 1t acts the same on all sub
iects. whether plants, trees or kittens.
Then why all this commotion about kit
ten and drop of nicotine. OF course the
tobacco user will object that everybody.
especially the boy, should know that one
drop of nicotine will kill a cat-if few
boys can be thus protected, why object,
when hundreds Of cats and rabbits are
slain regularly in medical laboratories for
fit humanity; why fuss about one kitten
in a school yard. If it could be run down.
no doubt the storm started in one of the
somke houses or agents Of the tobacco
companies.
Further, go to the big business concerns
and ask them about cigarette using young
men, or you need not leave Topeka, look
at the type of young manhood who spend
their time at the smoke houses and cigar
tendent Of schools and professors and
teachers and find the school standing of
Now If either of the before mentioned
individuals want to buy tobacco for their
friends. why that's their privilege when
the nation says use only necessities), but
I
such q move.
Again the article held this statement,
tobacco, one Of the most necessary articles
for liberty" What a travesty or ma
ton of free people that a man must be a
slave OF tobacco 70 De a ut SOLDIER IN u, the
sidered so, but Daniels of the navy has
proven the contrary, and the canteen was
once considered as essential as these
friends now think the cigarette. But how
| about public sentiment today, when the
officers at Camp Funston ask that Kansas
| M made dry when the soldiers m in
| for ball games? There's coming a time
] when cigarette counters will have no more
I place in a soldiers life than has the can
| teen now
| It's slam on Kansas, which for years
has stood out against liquor and its twin,
tobacco company's propaganda" for the
sale of their wares If Mayor House wants
! to stand thus, that is his privilege, but
/ he doesn't represent the type of citizens
/ Kansas mas been noted foF.
The statement by the prominent Topeka
] club woman" that surgeons are dealing out
I tobacco and cigarettes as the most com
forting and soothing medicine to the
is mighty poor solace for a dying man:
Rather hard on the medical profession If
| that's the best they have to offer a poor
dying chap away from home, somewhere
! in France" facing eternity. You ask any
man who conducts a mission or soul saving
station for the downs and outs" and he
bacco. are both the devils own business.
OF course, we don't mean that the above
mentioned parties are in the employ Of his
Satanic Majesty; I'VE merely wish to con-
vey that they are ignorantly and foolishly
boosting His Majesty's business and ought
to be filed away in some nice comfortable
and safe place until the war is over"
If all the people who condemned Mrs.
Monroes article. as we'll those who con-
graduated her, had written or phoned her
she would have needed a private secretary
to look after her correspondence and q
| hello girl to care for her phone.
A plea from man at the front. Some
where in France" printed a few weeks age
in the Washburn Review for reading matter
deserves the help of every liberty loving
citizen. He stated the boys poured over a
dictionary by the hour because there was
no other reading matter anywhere in reach
Why not flood the VS. stands with sub
scriptions for magazines and fill barrels
| with books from libraries and hurry
them to the front at once.
MRS. c. C. MORRISON.
nEcnRATEII s. CORPS