Arizona republican., 1919-08-03
MOVE ON FOOT TOPUT RAN IN
 NICOTINE USE
 IS STATEMENT I
Association Opposed to Ma
 tional Prohibition Says w. c. T. U. Is Endeavor- ing to Have Anti-Nicotine
 Law Passed in Each State
[Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WASHINGTON, August 2.-After two-month inquiry conducted in this city, Chicago, San Francisco and else where to determine whether there was a concerted campaign to bar the use of tobacco now that liquor has gone by the board, the Association Opposed to Natioral Prohibition issued a state ment here today charging that the Woman's Christian Temperance Unssn is backing movement to have an anti-nicotine law enacted in every state The w. c. T. |. will celebrate it's fiftieth anniversary five years hence and the organization is hopeful of having congress submit a constitu- tional amendment before March 20, 1924, it's semi-centennial. forbiddins the cultivation, sale. use or export of the weed for smoking or chewing pur- noses, the statement charged
 To Spend $500 900 in Fight
 The s1.OOO,000 drive" begun last March by the white ribboners, it is all leged has for it's object the crushing of demon nicotine and to this end, the anti profbitionists say, S300,O0O will be expended ostensibly on "child vel fare" health and morality" 'educa- ton and information" and other prop aganda methods by means of the churches and public schools. The As sociation Opposed to National Prohi bition further charges the W e. T. U- with planning to finance it's campaign against tobacco without appealing ci- rectIv for funds or naming the purpose for which the money is to be expended In support of this it asserts that al ready "in the guise of public school recitation books. which flagrantly vio- late the sanctity of home and filial devo tions, fathers who use tobacco gre portrayed filthy and unfit for child ish caresses."
 Anti Tobacco Bill in Georgia
 The investigation disclosed, said the statement, that a bill has been intro duced in the Georgia legislature tc prohibit the use of tobacco in any form and that measures have beer taken in the legislatures of other southern and western states to put 6 ban on cigarettes. The Anti Saloor League is also accused of actively aid ing the W. c. T. U. crusade and oi having indorsed the slogan nicotine next"
 l Dr. P. Charles Green, of Phlladel' 1 phia, was said to have protested to the public authorities of his city for per hitting. he said, the W. c. T. U. tt establish medallion contests and offel money rewards to pupils for the bes essays on the "viciousness" of the to- Dacco habit.
 In Evanston. Illinois, where is To- c.ted Rest Cottage" the nationa 1 headquarters of the w. c. T. U., for rner home of Frances F. Willard, foun' der of the organization and now tnt home of Anna Adams Gordon, th' present president thousands upoi 1 thousands of copies of the pamphlet Nicotine Next" by Frederick W. Ro man, Ph. D., professor of economies a ! Syracuse university, filled one storag room which, it was said, was guarded as carefully as a safe deposit vault.
 No one but an intimate insider, i was stated, is permitted to know tha the w c. T. U. plans shortly to floo' the country with these pamphlets.
 Meanwhile. vast quantities of othe kinds of anti-tobacco literature ar being distributed, it is asserted.