The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-11
Chicago Woman Announces q
Sweeping Campaign.
Wage War on Cosmetics and the
Fluffy Things.
COCA-COLAS ON BLACK LIST
She'll Also Put Stop to Tea and
COffee Drinking.
Second Carrie Nation Gets $50
Weekly to Fight Cigarets. r

This is the opening of a hard win
ter FOR the cigaret user. And the grille
girls with their cosmetics and fluffy
lingerie may as well get ready TO saw
sooobye to low cut. open work shirt
waists ana those silky things the men
show windows
Miss Lucy Page CASTOR of Chicago
is the advance agent of a campaign OF
education" in Kansas. She is ont
primarily for the pill But she does
not believe in the rouge box and tha
gowns that expose too much Of the
Feminine form to public gaze. She
Will go after the cigaret thru legfsla-
tion and. school campaigns. But she
doesn't want to load the wagon with
too many things at once. In conse-
quence she will merely urge that ey-
cry community put a moral and social
ban on the things that look as fluffy
ana fine-in the display windows
In her crusade in Kansas Miss Gas
ton Will cooperate with Miss Lor-
ralne E. wooster state superintendent
OF public instruction; officers of the
w. c. T. u, the Y. NJ and Y. w. c. A.
and other organizations. She will
ugnt TO enforce the Kansas anti
ton campaign thru the public schools.
Stop Sales Here.
BY tomorrow morning." she told
Ihe state journal today, there won't
pc cigaret for sale in Topeka.
closed them in Wichita the other dav
ana they VIII close here. We have
our campaign organized al are ready
10 go TO work. I expect to have an
interview with the mayor tornorroy,
and will see If it isn't possible to ston
the throwing of tobacco stubs in pub
| lice place where they attract bows ana
oIten transmit communicable dis
| eases"
There is a whole chapter OF things
which Miss CASTOR wants done in
order to save the budding manhood-
tfon.
After Cosmetics, Also.
Il don't believe we should permit
any sort OF exposure of the body that
is IN any way suggestive and the use
OF. tne cosmetics came from the under
word where women had one foot in
the gutter" said Miss CASTOR. like
the cigaret it has been taken thru
advertising into good social standing.
it may be all right for a girl to put a
| little talcum on a shiny nose But the
paint and rouge and low cut dresses
and similar things are indecent"
That isn't all. tho. Miss CASTOR Is
bitter against coffee and tea and some
4 Of the soft drinks.
Down With Soft Drinks,
There isn't any need of these stinn-
ulants that undermine our boys and
girls she declared. "I believe coca
cola is positively injurious and just as
much so as coffee and tea. But we
| must educate people Ia these matters
and education must come before leg
| islation."
| Miss CASTOR said she believed the
legislature should amend the Kansas
law to prohibit the smoking Of cigarets
! In public places. She would also en-
act law prohibiting use of cigarets
| by persons under Is or 21 years old
| The supreme court decision uphold
! ing the Kansas law will be called to
attention of every public official"
she said, "and we intend to see that
the law is enforced. We will make
every effort to educate boys and girls
against the eigaret habit thru our
/ schools. Clinics will be conducted in
impress the public with the impor-
tance of the cigaret evil"
She Gets $50 a Week.
Miss CASTOR is here for the Interna-
tionsl Cigaret league. She said today
week and expenses. OF this amount.
tho, she said that she gave back to
the organization s25 a week.
/ Last spring Miss CASTOR wanted to
enter the campaign as a candidate for
; the Republican nomination for presi-
dent. She reached her decision too
! late to present her name in presiden-
tial preference primaries and her name
, did not go before the Chicago conven-
ton.
1t is Miss Gaston's plan to discuss
her anti-cigaret crusade with Mayor
Corwine Friday. Tonight, tho, she ex-
poets to put the lid on cigaret sales in
. Topeka and will open new season Of
/ trouble for the coffin nail addict.