AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.J A BIG HAUL FROM RUM SHIP. SAN FRANCISCO,’Feb. 18. The Canadian steamer Coal Harbour*lias been seized and fourteen members of the crew arrested, as the Customs officials estimate the ship carried ten thousand eases of liquor valued at six hundred thousand dollars. WAR ON TOBACCO. THE AMERICAN CAMPAIGN. NEW YORK, February 18. The Anti-Tobacco Campaign appears to ho gaining momentum.

Doctor Daniel Kress, a noted physician, and Doctor Harvey Wiley, the furmei’ CliTef of the Bureau of Client-,,, istrv, m the Department of Agriculture are heading the movement. Doctor \\ iiey is well-known as the leading food

expert of America. A committee - of one hundred men. and women, including both Whites and negroes, are aiding the doctors, mio have called together representatives of

numerous organisation lor a. contention and Jt is expected .that .two hundred delegates' will attend there from all parts of the country. The invitations to the convention set out that the.situation,is. becoming daily more critical. Our country is now consuming in excess of six thousand million cigarettes monthly. A huge F* r_ K cent age of these are being school children. A great. drive begin to save the new generation Horn this poison habit. A concerted movement' should he made to pledge every Sunday school- student against tobacco in every dorm. Our magazines and our newspapers should he cleansed of all tobacco advertisements. Smoking scenes should be omitted from all cinemas. and a universal agitation should be.riji against smoking in the vest,•mints, theatres, lilts, and other pub-

lic places. ejA The Anti-Tobacco Convention will plan movements against tobacco wlicicever there is any hope of success at. { hub. to seriire laws ioibidding the sale of tobacco to minors nail it will appeal for hinds. . The leaders declare that is is not •i radical movement, hut it aims, through persistence and continuous service to accomplish its aims. 1 hysu;ia„s, clergymen, W.C.T.U. members Sunday school and ether school off,, mis and imnlio men will he enlisted. - al persuasion will he the keynote of tlu campaign endeavours. Attempts are being made to secuio „ pledge from smokers to refrain from the habit. . , , It is believed that far-reaching legis,alive programmes would at the present time, he doomed to failure and the uactioii from their submission to th various State legislatures would affect oilier reform work adversely.