New Britain herald., 1919-05-29
ANTI GIG CRUSADE.

ANTI CIGARET CRUSADE.
 A straw that indicates the direction of the wind is found in The Union Signal" the official organ of the Ma tional Woman's Christian Temperance Union, for the month of May. Of the sixteen pages seventy-five inches is devoted to an anti cigarette crusade, which points out the alleged moral and physical ills which will befall the man or woman who smokes the handy little roll of tobacco. The w. c. T. U. was one of the Organiza tions in strumental in securing the passage by Congress of the federal prohibition amendment and it's subsequent ratifi- cation by three fourths of the states. It is apparent that the society in , tends to wage just as vigorous a fight ' on tobacco as it did on alcohol.
 Margaret B. Platt contributes a short article on cigarettes under the caption of How would you like" and containing the following interro- gations:
 To see your daughter walking
 the street smoking a cigaretteo
 To see your wife smoking cigar
 cites while she cares for your in
 fant son or hears your little
 daughters evening prayer?
 To see your cook industriously
 smoking cigarettes while she pre-
 pares food for the family?
 To sec a group of your best lady friends seated about the dining
 table at home or in public, all
 smoking cigarettes?
 To see the young woman who
 teaches your children in school
 smoking cigarettes on her way to
 and from school and hastening to
 light up'' during intermission?
 To see the nurse to whom you
 commit the care of your loved
 ones during illness, always smok-
 ing a cigarette?
 To hold in your memory the
 picture Of your precious mother
 smoking a cigarette?
 If you would not like all your
 women to be cigarette users,
 why tolerate the cigarette for
 your sons, your brothers or any
 one? If the cigarette is good for
 man and boy, why not for won-
 an and girl?
 The writer of the foregoing pays too much attention to the evils of one habit. If she is sincerely intent on making the world safer for the Puri- tans, she should enlarge her field  with human nature. No mother who is a real mother is going to smoke cigarettes while caring for her infa mt son or hearing her daughters eve ming prayer. The picture is absurd and overdrawn. Nor will any nurse be seen "always smoking a cigarette ' Nurses, like other folks, find it neces- 1 sary to devote some time to sleep. Nor 1 is any young woman who respects her | good name going to walk along the streets smoking even though she in dulge herself in private. Such argu- ments are ridiculous and leave the reader cold, not to say anything of a humorous frame of mind.
 Frankly, we would not like to see mothers smoking cigarettes. Neither would we like to see the fathers of the nation wearing tight corsets, 1 which, physicians of repute say, are the cause of many serious ills, some of which prove fatal. Frankly, we would not care to see the young wom- en gliding along Main street oking | cigarettes. Neither would we like to see young men appearing in public with their faces covered with paint and varnish that are sometimes the root of skin diseases. Of course all women do not injure themselves bS wearing tight corsets or using paint neither do all men smoke to excess.