Evening journal., 1919-03-27

WAR IS OPENED
Field Secretaries Sent to
Begin Educational Cam
paign in Country
MEDICAL INQUIRY
ALSO is BEGUN

NEW YORK, March 27.-The war
| against tobacco Is on i'm earnest
The nti-Cigarello League OF America
/ with headquarters at Chicago and the
/ name OF United States Commissioner Of
Education p. p. ClaXlon on It's letter
| mead as honorary president" has re-
organized its forces. and is TODAY dis
patching field secretaries 90 an parts
OF the country. 40 the same time. with.
as 10 phrases 10, "lhe nght against al
cohol won 10 is busily collecting funds
by private subscription 10 further Us
educational campaign
The W0man's Christian Temperance
Union also is concentrating new efforts
TO stamp out the Tobacco habit" The
mti-narcOtic division OF iha union has
lhe work In charge, with lhe union
membership supplying The necessary
cash.
I'VE are going 90 follow precisely
The same methods OF educational prop
aganda through which. after many
years work, we brought about the
downfall OF alcohol" said Mrs. Ella a.
Boole. New York state president and
national yice-prcsldent OF The W. g..
r. u.
simultaneously there is now I'm pro-
cess OF formation a committee of mcdi-
cal men, scientists. economists and in-'i
dustrial leaders who are going 10
undertake an exhaustive and impartial
Investigation" into the effects OF To-
bacco ON both the individual and the
community. This body viii include sew
eral men who were members OF the /
famous Committee OF Fifty That inyosti- !
gated The liquor question. and lhe new |
organlzaiion Will pursue with respect T.
10 tobacco the same character of in /
quiry' 10 was announced yesterday.
-Four organization meetings of the /
founders OF This committee have al Z
ready been held at the Yale Club i'm 4
this city. Constitution. bylaws and "a /
program OF procedure have been drawn
up. Or. Alexander Lambert has been /
made chairman Of the executive COM
mitlee. Sir William Oslcr. Of oxford
who is at present deyOting himself 90
special studies OF the heart has Joined
tle membership. Distinguished French /
physicians are now being brought into
me movement, and 10 is hoped 90 make
ihe investigation Worldwide I'M scope
Among the Americans who are az
ready on the committee are Dr. Walter
B. Cannon, Of Harvard; Professor Henry
w Farnum Of Yale; Professor Irying
Fisher, OF Yale; Professor p. w. Ro-
man, Of Syracuse University. author OF /
the widely noticed Nicotine Next"
pamphlet; George J. Fisher. Of Y. NJ. C.. ]
a. fame: Austin B. Fletcher. chairman /
of The Tufts College board of trustees |
Or. Oscar II. Rogers. chief physician for |
the New York Life Insurance Company:
DR.. Eugene Lyman Fish, director of the
Life EXtchsiOn Institute, and George
Foster Peabody.
Many or these men have expressed
themselves strongly against tobacco.
notably Or. Roman and Professor Far
mum, with whom ihe idea for this sur
yey originated last June, when the first
organization meeting was called Tn I
talking OF the plahs OF the committee
yesterday, however, Or. Fisk cmpha-
sized the point that the commission
will begin with an absolutely impartial
altitude and prosecute an It's inquiries
n a strictly scientific spirit.
"NO authoritative analysis OF the .
situation as a whole has vet been .
made" said he "This matter is now q
'oming to the fore i'm the public mind.
{ seems destined 90 occupy a more ]
nd more conspicuous place Therefore !
ne public should have the true facts I
Ne promise 10 get them. That is all.
The work may take us years. When it p
S finished we shall render a report COW t
ring all phases Of the tobacco question .
nd people can decide inlelligcnllyl y
What they want 20 do about it'
For the purpose of its Investigation O
lr. Fisk continued, The committee is 90 "
he divided into separate divisions. de- y
oted 20 physiology, clinical medicine. i'
ygiene and economies. The extent OF d
he land given over 90 tobacco culiiva- O
ion. i'm its relation 90 the worlds food
roblem, will be considered along with o.
he purely physical effects OF tobacco p
m smokers. So will the relation of q
moking 10 the spread of fires. with Us b
o-rclativc application 20 the general B
ublic welfare.
During the war, nr. Fisk said. much 50
relimnary study of smoking and the q
Individual has been accomplished by N
hyslcians Independently IN connection "a
With their work with the army The CT