"Yes! The Queen DOES Smoke"

When the news reached Rockford, Ill. that Queen Mary smokes cigarets (TIME, July 14), the good ladies of the Rockford Women's Christian Temperance Union were stunned. Last week Mrs. Myrtle Wolfram, president of the Rockford chapter and Chairman of its Social Morality Department took action. To Buckingham palace she cabled:

IN A SPIRIT OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP HAVE CHALLENGED STATEMENT THAT YOU SMOKE CIGARETS PLEASE ANSWER

"Before we take any stand," president Myrtle Wolfram explained graciously to Rockford newsgatherers, "The Social Morality Department always goes right to headquarters to ascertain the facts."

Queen Mary did not answer Rockford's Social Morality Department right away. But London's newspapers undertook to do so for her. In a special article intended for Rockford consumption, the Daily Express headlined: "YES! THE QUEEN DOES SMOKE! ! ! !"

"The Duchess of York is also known to smoke privately and it will be recalled that when Princess Mary was married presents from her friends included a number of cigaret cases. These were expected to be used."

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