Show propaganda 1 why is it that the modern modem author feels that his heroines must all be smokers 0 cigarettes cigar etts Is it possible that the tobacco interests are doing as the liquor interests did in days and are backing a i huge nationwide campaign of prop ganda in which the writer of modern fiction is the cat the sunday school times recently printed a story about the late billy sunday mho bo when he preached a t cries of sermons at ii a well known kno nv n aas eastern t ern co college elege converted the college social light and most brilliant student I 1 den who seemed always to have an I 1 abundance of mone money y for all of his 1 many activities upon his conversion the young man went to one of the professors and told him how he obtained his supply of ready cash he had been employed by certain well known liquor interests his duties were to see that wiy any antii I 1 liquor club or any other prohibition I 1 1 movement shoud be nipped in the bud the young manhave man gave his backers a note to cover the money he be had spent I 1 while in their employ and became aggressive against his former employers pl 31 4 when one considers that the lowest form of citizen within our borders almost without exception are heavy I 1 smokers that our criminal type and I 1 our moral delinquents rarely if ever 1 are abstainers abstain ers from smoking is it not reasonable to suppose teat the I 1 use of tobacco o is an indication n of I 1 moral laxity in some degree we contend that no habit can be neutral in its effect or on man it must be either cither a good habit or a bad one naturally we have a great many friends who are heavy smokers these these same friends however often embarrass em barass us either with their conduct or with their cheap ideas we b have av e no grudge against ag a ins t t the 11 e smoker but we ve late hate to have tobacco propaganda crammed down our throat every time we ollen a magazine and we do not belish the thought ht of a useless and possibly evil eil habit being made to seem so attra attractive that our children and young friends of immature judgment are persuaded to become addic addicts ts i if there is a single benefit to be derived by the smoker from the use of tobacco we never heard of it |