Judge — May 29, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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aa wee, Drawn by Heawas Pacwrn Judgements ws AL Sterner, Pre. Reeses PL Stntcne Peeniros Maxwet, & Don’r Make tue Same Mistraxe AGatw! REPARATIONS for a strenuous, cunning, na- tion-wide campai ainst tobacco are in full swing. Secret millions of money have been ired placed at the disposal of the little group of long-h male cranks and short-haired female * reformers” who e determined to first tarnish the fair reputation of My Lady Nicotine” and then banish her forever from the United States. This aign by advertising, sermonizing, political intrigue, the force of fear, the flattery of non-smokers—the thousand and one tricks and insidious methods of the professional propagandist — if not opposed by those who are friendly to the com- forting pipe, the cheering cigar or the consoling cigar- ette, will bring about the inhibition of tobacco as surely as night follows day. If the frequent warnings sounded by Jupce remain unheeded by the adherents of the fragrant weed, these admonitions to an indifferent pub- lic to wake up and combat, through political and social channels, this strengthening menace to American fre dom, will have been as vain’as is the present futile protest against the Kighteenth Amendment Says the New York World, in. « ymmenting on the anti-tobacco “ pussy footing” campaign: ‘No one can doubt that if the issue had rested in a mere question of numbers for and against, Prohibition would have been defeated summarily. The same thing is even more clearly true in the case of Grant FE. Hasieton, drt Editor Iesociate Kd A. E. Rouuwwen, Treasurer LN. Wat deprive us of our “smokes” while we smile and doze and rently murmur: “It can’t be done!” ‘The awakening will be a greater shock to the majority of people than anything in our history since the morning we casually took up our newspapers to find it was illegal to buy a drink. As Richard Le Gallienne sang in a recent issue of Jueves Don’t say—The bill will never pass!” Nor this my warning word disdain You said it once, vou silly ass! Don't make the same mistake again, ECAUSE. of prevailing food ices, the residents J., have decreed that “a pig Indeed, there is evidence of Sea Isle City, N is a family necessity.” everywhere of increased regard for the porker, like- wise for the example he sets in the matter of collecting this world’s goods. We live in an age which scorns the lowly Ant, so long respected as the guide to honor- thrift. “Go to the pig, thou sluggard,” “consider its ways and get able success b: is ov quotation, busy.” HOSE. picturesque but minor performers of the Spanish bull-ring whose job is to goad the bull until the toreador is pleased to deliver the finish- have gone on indefinite strike. The American consumer looks with envious eye at the ing touch, unti-tobacco. But no ma jority ia saleiwhich also is slothful. Sanity can- not afford to sleep while fanaticism works. The man who wants to save his after-dinner cigar can- not do it by smoke alone How long will the American people submit to the devious, ingenious and highly efficient machinations of the rall but powerful band —— sg mast any iS an “artist when Spanish bull. ‘The latter man tas all the luck. rasa paper Travis may semi- Headline. If distinctions of this sort are to be made, hall soon have in it Comes) moists, semi-wets, wets and wringing wets. his salarya )| vPess zealots who labor to Reading is shorthand for living. comicbooks.com