New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Association Opposed to
Prohibitions Says Or.
ganization Leads Move
to Eliminate Nicotine
Plan for Campaign
Shown i'm Detail
Propaganda in Schools Is
Said To Be Prelude to
a Nationwide Crusade

Leadership in movement having
for its goal adoption Of nineteenth
amendment to the Constitution pro-
hibiting the use of tobacco is at
.tributed to the Womap's Christian Tenn
perance Union by the Association OPP
posed to National Prohibitions, which
made public yesterday the result of
many weeks of investigation Of the
activities Of anti tobacco crusaders
The association in a statement issued
fl>>l the Headquarters. 10 West Forty
fourth Street, and which was read into
"The Congressional Record" in the
House BY representative Haskell, of
New York. summarizes the results of
its Investigation as follows:
a. There is indeed. concerted plan
Of action. based upon a mutual pledge
of mcmhei hip. to have anti tobacco
laws eNee'od in every state in the
Union and. possibly. by Congress, in
submitting q constitutional amendment
te ore March 30, 1924, when the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
leadership Charged to W. c. T. u.
'2. The leadership in this anti-tobac-
60 crusade mas been assumed by the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
ca ed mother by the Anti-Saloon
League and other prohibition organi-
za.iOAs, AL Of which were coope rative
allos in the nationwide prohibition
campa ign.
"3. The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union began d drive last March
for $1,000. 900, and has announced that
100000 Of this sum Will be expenGed
Oh its work OF child welfare health
and morality and education and in
formation,' and it is under these head
ings that the anti7tobacco campaign
will be financed, instead Of appealing
direct for money to prohibit the use
cf tobacco.
Il. IN the guise of child welfare
and morality and health the activities
OF the Woman's Christian Temperar &C
Union have been carried into the pub
lie schools and recitation books have
been furnished to children which fla
grantly violate the sanctity of home and
tllal devotion by portraying a father
who uses tobacco as filthy and unfit
for childish carcsses.
"5. Protests on the part Of parents
have caused such interfering between
father and child to be stopped in GER
tam schools. and the Association OPP
posed TO National Prohibition will carry
tine attack further.
Fight Launched in Georgia
"6. bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to prohibit the use
OF lo'&cco IN any form whatever, and
measures have been introduced in the
legislatures of other Southern and
Western states to put ban upon Gig
aret1es.
81. Certain officers of the Anti Saloon
League have denied any participation
by that organization in the tobacco
crusade, knowing it would hurt the
and hanging under cloud of public re-
vulsIon, but others have bluntly admit
ted that nicotine will be next The
Antl-Saloon League cannot stay out
without a breach with it's ally, the w.
T. T. U. The W. C. T. U. has been a
faithful co-worker with the Anti-Saloon
League for years. Now the league must
either support or repudiate this anti
tobacco campaign by the w. c. T. U.
Inc Anti Saloon League must fish or
cut bait"
-, The anti-tobacco propaganda of the
'" e. I. L. was first brought to the at
,tention of the Association Opposed to
national Prohibitions in statement
Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. DR..
Greens son, Charles A. Green, an
eighth grade student at the M. Hall
stanton public school. brought home
1or study Book No. Z, Woman's Chris
lian Temperance Union"
Association Appealed To
After perusing this book. DR.. Green
wrote to the association as follows:
- desire to call your attention to the
euorts of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union to use the public schools
70 exploit an unliterary, unfair, un-
e'nlcal propaganda ostensibly directed
against alcohol and tobacco. This
movement strikes at the very root Of
american life and is national in its
scope. Before turning the light Of
Puoncity upon what / have discovered
believe it is vitality important that the
pefnlcious activity of this organization
oe Investigated, and the data / have
secured furnish strong foundation
On which to start. The method of ap-
pfoach in this city is to secure the CO.
Isperst,on of friendly principal. our
.'cai Board of Education is in no sense
party to the scheme"
VI. Green's son had been instructed
20 learn one of the selections con-
sa'ned in Book ~ in preparation for
"a eiocution contest with seven other
pupils of his grade. One of the selec-
uons, entitled "Not Fit To Be Kissed.
d sCid In verse the troubles Of child
who couldn't kiss her father because
"e smelled of tobacco.
VI. Green made q number of pro-
Continued ON Da0e three