The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-25
Lucy Page CASTOR Decides Def
q initely on Departure.
To Visit the Legislatures in
Every Capital City.
BLAMES TOBACCO INTERESTS
-Clgaret Crusader Says They
Spread False Stories.
At Any Rate, She viii Leave
Kansas February 1.

Joy for those who regard the CT
.garet with lenient, not to say joyful
s.eye. is contained in the official bye
bye to Kansas of Lucy Page CASTOR,
who said today that not later than
February l she would leave for a trip
south and then would visit every cap
Sital city in which a legislature was in
session. Her firm decision announced
personally today strikes near home"
-aohly when she says she intends to
"begin next on Missouri and Okla
1oma-on the borders of Kansas"
The picture painted. in news reports
That Lucy Page CASTOR, denounced by
-her co-workers. is penniless and with
Dat a cause has brought forth intense
indignation from the crusader.
- The story that I have been driven
out of Kansas. penniless. friendless
and in disgrace, that. has gone out
-oyer the country is interesting. If
true as Mark Twain once said about
the report of his death,"Nwas only the
beginning of Miss Gaston's comment
today, after the reports published that
The state anti-cigaret forces had re-
FUSED to pay her salary and were not
working in harmony with her.
Doom of Cigaret.''
THE doom of the cigaret has been
sounded and the paper pipe will go
the sooner because of such propa-
.ganda as the story about me. which
Is not only false. but malicious in its
Inception" Miss CASTOR declared.
The tobacco interests Miss CASTOR
eaid, were largely responsible for the
false Impressions put about the state
about her condition of affairs
i have thrown down the gauntlet
to-the Association Opposed to Pro-
hibitions,' of which Percival S. Hill.
head of the American Tobacco COM
pany, is president and which has its
nTl NV 1R1- 7
60" Miss CASTOR said. II defy them
to do. their" worst. believing that the
thinking people of the nation will I'M
deEstand what is back of any attack
made upon me-"
q Visit Every Capital City.
{ Miss CASTOR is not downhearted, ac-
cording to her own statement She
1ully intends to continue her. battle
against the cisaret. With all her ac-
custotned fervor. the Carrie Nation of
tobacco declared today:
MY plan is to reach every capital
city in which a legislature is in session
and to do all in my power to put a
score of states in line for the absolute
prohibition of the cigaret.- 1 have been
urged to begin on Missouri and Okla
homa on the borders of Kansas"
No Split in Fight
Alfs well that ends well" may be
tafd of the relations of Lucy Page Gas
ION and the Kansas Anti-Cigaret
league, with the publication of a state
ment in regard to the generally under
stood strained feeling between the wo-
man leader of the crusade against
cigarets and the antf-cfgaret league
The statement is from Mrs. J. r.
Sargent, secretary of the league. and is
made as a result of a called meeting
of the board of directors Monday after
noon. 1t follows:
AT this. our first meeting. we. the Off
GERS and directors of the Kansas Anti
Clgaret league, desire to record our appre-
citation Of the fine work done for us and
for all Kansas by Miss CASTOR. Having
given twenty years of the most effective
service in this great work. upon the first
appearing of a serious movement to repeal
our present laws this subject, this
splendid lender in moral reform laid aside
her other plans and came to our help. and