Letter from Alva P. Jones, Superintendent, National Cigarette Law Enforcement League to President Herbert Hoover Stating that Crime is Due the Use of Cigarettes

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National Cigarette Law Enforcement League Inc.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
125 W. 17th St.
Dr. Dean C. Dutton, Pres.
Open
Other Director
Phone 4 9226
Dr. Fred Mesch
Norman, Okla.
Stillwater, Okla.
Dr. Wm. Forney Hovis, 1st Vice-Pres.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Savon
Mr. Ed L. Klein
MAY THE WHITE HOUSE
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Prof. J. R. Barton, 2rd Vice-Pres.
Cong. Jed Johnson
Oklahoma City, Okla.
RECEIVE929
Anadarko, Okla.
Judge Jas. I. Phelps, 3rd Vlce-Pres.
Rev. L. H. La Grone
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Prof. Earl P. Weston, 4th Vice Pres.
5
Rev. Alva P. Jones, Supt.
ack.
Blackwell, Okla.
Prof. C. W. Gethman
Comanche, Okla.
5-31-291
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Burvo
Mrs. Alice M. David
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Oklahoma, Okla.
Mr. L. A. Coppage, Treas.
Prof. Jno. S. Voughn
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Durant, Okla.
Mr. D. N. Downing, Secy.
Mr. U. M. Baughman
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Nase, Oklahoma City, Okla.,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Prof. Festus C. Snow, Auditor
Mr. Jno. A. Simpson
Comanche, Okla.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Gov. Wm. J. Holloway, Council.
Mr. Jno. W. Heidbrink
Hugo, Okla.
May 25,
19...29
Oklahoma City, Okla.
To The Honorable Herbert Hoover, President,
United States of America,
Washington, D. C.
THE Y STATES YORK THE
Dear Mr. President:
I understand that while you were Secretary of the Interior you
gave out a statement saying, "There is no agency in the world today
that is so seriously affecting the health, education, efficiency
and character of boys and girls as the cigarette habit. Nearly every
delinquent is a cigarette smoker."
Dr. C. L. Barber, former President of the Medico-Physical Research
Association of America said, "This great wave of crime is due to the
use of cigarettes and nothing else. The indiscriminate use of hooch,
poison liquor, wine, Jamaica ginger and any other product that has a
kick, is due to the use of cigarettes and nothing else." That, "You
may legislate all the Volstead Acts, or any other acts you have a mind
to, but you never will stop this wave of crime and demoralization until
you stop the manufacture and sale of cigarettes."
Concerning "Acrolein," one of the 20 different poisons in the
smoke of a cigarette, Mr. Edison says, "Ireally believe acrolein often
makes boys insane." And Dr. Forbes Winslow says, "Cigarette smoking
is one of the chief causes of insanity."
In view of these and like statements, from other eminent authorities,
would it not be a fine idea for your crime commission of eminent jurists
to make a careful study of the bearing of cigarette smoking upon the
criminal? And especially Mr. Hoover, since there are forty states of
our Union which are trying to protect their future citizens from the
cigarette evil by passing laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and
cigarette papers to their youths?
If cigarette smoking helps to produce criminals, it may be
necessary to prohibit this evil before our crime wave can be ultimately
solved (?)
With great faith in the success of your administration, I am,
Most cordially,
awa P. Jones,
Superintendent,
National Cigarette Law Enforcement League.
APJ/MS.

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