The sun., 1919-04-06
Champions of Per-
sonal Liberty Re-
gard the Crusade
as a Move ment
Toward Endless
hibitions-
wv hat Ne KIP"
They Ask
PUTTING TOBACCO INTO
A BARN to be AIR CURED
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smoking with drinking. The w. c. r, U.
used to be very strong upon this point.
But the Anti-Saloon League, inveigh-
ing against liquor so far as 1t did this
publicly, was always careful to keep
away from ethics and religion and
concentrate on the hard headed. prac-
| teal kind of appeal And 1t is inter
esting to remember that Billy Sunday.
the evangelist. who says the most
bamelessly living member of a conf
munity is as hopelessly lost as It's
grossest monster unless he Is a. pro-
Tossing Christian, does not denounce
! tobacco altogether by any means.
II haven't got much to say on that
subject he gets into one of his SER
mons. in effect, "if a mans of age hs
can decide about smoking for himself.
But If you're going TO smoke get 4
good cigar or pipe and go TO it, in
moderation-not dirty, sissy cigar
ette."
The esthetic argument is used. 4
minor poet of distinction who had
just completed an Ode TO My Lady
Nicotine, was startled when he read 1t
to his wife. previously unsupported of
poetic gifts. and she countered i'm
promptu with
Tobacco spilled upon the floor
Is great big, horrld nasty bore"
and millions of wives will agree with
her that 1t is, their husbands feebly OPP
posing the stale contention that it keeps
moths out of the carpet. Wives vote
these days in many States, a fact OF
which State legislators are believed to
have been mindful when the liquor
exhibition amendment came I'D for
action. On the other hand, no few
wives and no mean number of daugh-
tiers OF voting years are smokers
themselves.
THE war is over" said Miss Lucy
Page CASTOR oracularly, resigning tho
Anu-Cigarette League presidency dur
Ing an tnternecine ruction 1t had o
few weeks ago, land the cigarette is
once moro a poison" Its toxic prop
critics were gone into before the New
Jersey Conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Ocean Grove on
March II by the Rev. DIR. Clarence
True Wilson. secretary OF the Metho-
dist Temperance and Moral Board.
BIames Shell shock to Cigarett.s.
DR.. Wilson was quoted as saying
that the tremors of so-called shell
shock victims were really due to Gig
arettes and that the wicked tobacco
trust" had foisted drugged cigarettes,
extra pi'zen and addicting and deprav-
Ing. upon the soldiers. When returned
| army officers heard of his charges they
struggled between laughter and pro-
fonity.
What tobacco. and cigarettes in par
ticular, meant to the American Expe-
dictionary Force, as TO every other force
that took part in the war, IS too we'll
known to require enlargement here.
About year ago, on Gen. PershinE's
| recommendation, cigarette tobacco be
| gan to be Issued biweekly to the men,
and long and widely advertised
brand, whose trade mark is a more or
less camoufiaged benefactor of the
butcher and the dairyman, disappeared
from the home trade In consequence
Also, every private war work organ
isation was furnishing all the olga
rettos II could purchase and ship 10
tho boys" Tho Y. NJ. C. a. huts sold
them. Other organizations gave them
free.
At this point THE Sun Tobacco
Fund breaks into the general survey
(Conttnued on FOlloptnQ Po1e.l 4