Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-02
ANTI TOBACCO MOVEMENT
is LEGISLATIVE ORPHAN
Nobody Is Willing To Admit Par
cntagc or To Serve as Its
~ Guardian.
REFORM BODIES IN DENIAI.S
methodist Church, ". G.. L. L., and
Other Moral Welfare Organill
tons Disclain Purpose To De-
privc Adults of the Weed.
lily J. Frcdcrick i:>>nr,.

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WASHINGTON. May ~ Another
moiaf' crusade has now been re-
pudiatcd ny professional rcformers.
The antiiohacco movement. sup
posed To have tn. fun ana cnthuS!-
astic support OF many. If not an. the
national reform organizations has
gone tho way of the sunday "hu"
LAW campaign: Ii Is dIsowuod ana
discreditcd 10y its alleged authors.
This Information is contained in an
interesting symposium OF diSavowals
issued by The hoard Of temperance.
prohibition and pubic morals of Tho
Methodist Episcopal Church .tscIt
one OF III" most militUu; ana re
sonrceful OF the reform bodies in
Not, only docs tho Methodist board
uony that IT Is party to any move
ment for the prohibition of tile per
Sonai use of tobacco by adults. but
II quotes tho ruaH'S Christian Tom
psfance Union to The same effect it
quotes the International Reform l;u-
reau, the Anti-Saloon League. the
Southern Co-oporat!,o League ana
the National Reform Association us
being nnin,crcst-d in amy plan to
aeprieNe the man or woin:n of the
privilege OF smoking or chewing to-
Dacco or Of dipping" snuff
Rcpndintc Blue Law Crusade
Only few weeks aEo tho sunday
nIuc law crusade. which had excited
the country more az loss for u limo
was dcci*iNcly rcpudiated by the re
form organizations having hcadQuar-
ters in Washington. INDIGNANT slate
incnts We're issued TO the general ct
1tct that these bodies had unic>d in
no movement 10 require a rigid oh
Scrvancc of tho sabbath although
carrier statements. phamplctS dodgers
ltatieiS ana Other Literature" had rr"-
'ccncu from tn" same sources. leaving
an tntlrtIy contrary Impressions
After the success Of TIA. prohibition
movement winch was SiSnali2rd 10y
the adoption OF tho eighteenth amend,
,f
enforcement act. more or less laEuc|
reports spread through tn, country
that q campaign would b. iuauru-
rated against III" nicotine ryil. as
We'll as against The dIuu n:tLl
These reports seemed to he wcl
founded when aut:'obaCGo ly.iSlatfuu
;;.ppehr"d IN number OF stat, l.rEis-
Idaho.
Amend Federal Constitution.
certain ar'iato:s Went SO far rs to
SuEGcSt tAat an amendment Ia tn,
f.uerai Constitution ought to bc
adopted which would prohibit IN
lnaNG!acturc ana use OF tobacco in
IN" same sense that th,. inauliflc,i,r,
and sale OF intoxicating louor hIu
been prohibited. Tho name of The
w. {. T. L. was associated with this
"ntin!cothe movement hv counter
aS!iators who also took II for
Sr"nicd that other professional re-
formers had or would fan into line
aroused by these Unauthorized
SnsSsstionS. Inc Methodist board has
found ii d.s!rahl" to r"asslrc Tho
country that tho more iitportoni nI
the public moral bodies have nothing
70 do with the campaign against to-
hacco. except perhaps rs that urodu.,
<ls used by minors. Here is what the
W. {. ]. L. is quoted as saying:
Brand> Charge Untrue.
p. IN" National .Womau's Christian
temperance Union brands as untrue
the charge that We are engaged in n
",Sft; campaign for an amendment To