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Last week, as it must to all reformers, death came, at 86, to Charles Giffin Pease. The human race, not living right, and not very beautiful, went right...
...this relentless crusade, pink-faced, bright-eyed, dapper Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, dentist, teacher, founder and president of the Non-Smokers Protective League of America, was pursuing his idea of beauty. Said he: "Oh, if the human race would but live right, what a beautiful people the human race would...
Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...
Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him to resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor...
...twelve judges (whose superiors could have quashed the charges before the trial began) evidently concluded that Colonel Giffin was a drinker but not a drunkard, set him back from No. 611 to 711 in the current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...