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Show THERE'S A GOOD SERMON IN THIS A woman made this remark: "I see the news-papers news-papers and magazines full of suggestion where and how women may sae for the war and I see that most of my friends have signed the conservation pledge. Also I take note that the average woman is figuring ways .and meant of saving. sav-ing. But I haven't yet een a pledge paper circulated circu-lated of signed where men have agreed to abandon tobacco in order to save for the war. I have seen appeals to men who use tobacco to double their expenditures and when they an- buying for themselves them-selves buy the same quantity for soldiers. And it appear! that they do it, by the newspaper reports of barrels filled by those purchases." She went on: "I haven't 1 en in any town of any sin for years that hasn't half a dozen or more cigar and tobacco stores. The drugrists all sell cigars. Some of the barber shops sell them I am informed. All of the restaurants and hotels sell them. I heard a man complaining the other day that the price of cigars had gone up, hut I didn't hear him say anything about cutting down on his daily allotment." Then she shifted and led with her left: "Suppose "Sup-pose that 150,000,000 men smoke a half a dollar'.? worth of cigars and tobacco a day. It woidd take about four days' abstinence to raise that $35,000,-ooii $35,000,-ooii for the Y. M. C. A., wouldn't it? A years expenditure ex-penditure would mighty near pay off the first Lib erty Loan, wouldn't it? And what do you men get out of it, anyway sour stomachs, ugly morning dispositions and an offensive personal stench?" "Why don't you lords of creation do something yourselves? Why don't you have cigarless and tobaccoless days? While suggesting so much to us women why don't you organize a week of no tobacco, no down town lunches, or treating and the like of that, and turn your money saved over to the Y. M. C. A., the P.elgians, the babies that are starving while you burn up good money for nothing noth-ing except arterial scerosis?" Well, here it is. Somebody talk back to her. MarskoUtowH 'l'imr Republican. (S) |