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Show TOBACCO TRUST IS ACCUSED BY WOMAN That the Red Cross organisation, and nob'Hed Cross nurses, was used by the tobacco trust to distribute cigarettes cigar-ettes to boys in military service 'was the statement made by Mrs. 8, Mc-Leese, Mc-Leese, a representative of the W, C. T, U., In her appeal for passage of the Southwlck antlclgarette bill. Mrs. McLerss said: "The big tobacco tobac-co trust, for the sake of a few paltry dollars and personal gain, would drag down our youth and lower their efficiency. ef-ficiency. Even our boys, rushed from schools and their homes Into training camps In servlcs for their country, did not escape their sinister schemes. Through the Ked Cross and other agencies packages of cigarettes were distributed to our boys sway from home, thereby encouraging the habit. |