Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-06-27 | Page 1 | Smoking by Girls Held Cause of Wheat Shortage

SMOKING BY GIRLS HELD CAUSE OF WHEAT SHORTAGE By Unitad Praaa. CHICAGO. Juna 17. There would be mora wheat in tha world if women smoked fewer cigarettes. This statement waa made by Mrs. Henry M. Dunlap. wife of Htate Benator Don lap of Bavoy. ill.. In an address before tha women's wom-en's war convention hare. "The tobacco crop showed a per cent Increase In llt over that of lH." said Mrs. Dunlap. "I attribute thia largely to the fact that women are araoklng more , cigarettes than they used to. All thoaa tobacco fields ahould be planted to wheat: by giving up ' cigarettes women could help con- aerve tha wheat of the nation."