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REPOSITORY Canton, Ohio December 10, 1961 Pocoliontas Romance Still Burns--in Tobcccc~v By WARD CANNEL 1Of' a, Europe redolent with outdoor And while toMacco won't pay NEW YORK (NEA)- Ah, ro-plumbing, and no sewage disposal your tages anymore, there's stnll mance. :systems. plenty you can buy with it: It is exactly 350 years since''anI By and by, accordingto one his-'' AcCording, to one news report, . Englishman named John Ro1fe tory, ": he Mighty Leaf" was be- h'vo U. S. newsmen withi Gou. wooed and' wan a local girl frorn!ing used as an "unFuent„a gargler a~~esea couple of a$ve. Jamestown, Va., named Pocohon- an emetic, a cathartic; and a rem-. Ple of Pa ga- und ledy for coughs, colds, sores, head- rettes and' found' they had biouglit • tas - and started fir a e aro the worJdl that is stih smoking:aches, gangrene and paralysis." two women in return+ furiously today. For with the nuptials barely fin- AND W'ITII' DEMA111fD growing ished, Rolfe took his wife's dowry daily, it was not surprising that! used a5 t°bacao was soon being , and hurried down to the townj . money in the colonies. ~ wharf'to pay off a bribe . For, a price, a Dutch sea cap-! A clergyman was paid' 16J110l1 tain had smuggled a handful of~~ra1 scost o900 c pounds e8a wed' tobaeco seed out of Spanish-held Santo Domingo for Rolfe. Andiding 20D pounds, the transailantic within, the y,ear, of 11612, the first passage for a bride from England 'commercial crop was harvested'1201 pounds. and exported, putting, Virginia onl Im 1633, the Virginia Assembly a paying basis. Jried to get' money back in use. 'But it didn't work and nine years NOW, TOBACCO had b e c n later tobacco was made legal ten- around Europe ever since one of der, acceptable in payment Columbus' sailors named Jerez of'taxes. hadi pickedl up the smoking habit A century and a half later, it in the Bahamas in 1492. But, gen- still was being used as legal ten- erally, it was only sailors on the der - part • of, soldiers' pay, an• Atlantic run who used tobacco for exchange for help from France the next century. . . during_the Rcvolutionary'war, ac- Little by little, the fashion •ceptabie : dorlation i to Gen. Wash- spread. But .once the Jamestown ingtoWs war fundl crop proved' successfull tobacco. ,, .;. hit the world like a hula hoop. MEANWHILE, John Rolfe's In England, clay pipes were to crop had spread widely through- be seen everywhere. In Rome, a-out the Southern colonies; making, pope called on one of'his cardinals fortunes for many planters, lur- for instruction in smoking. In Af- ing new and needed settlers from rica, natives traded land, cattle, Europe, forring a young country and even their fellow, tribesmen to build a merchant marine fleet_.-, for tobacco: that would be vitally neededlin the aoming, fight against England:. NISTORIAIN_JF.=VE_Bromks Curiously, too, the vast lands notes that, during t h e Great needed for tobacco growing re- Plague of 1664, school children sulted in the development of rep- were given a daily medicinal pipe. resentative government. -. Queen Caroline's rourt in Eng. The planters coul&notm k th a e e [ and used•tobacco as a dentifrice, long trip to town meetin 2-1 s as • g In the Orient, opium users be- farmers in New En land co ld g u . gan to smoke their narcotics for A d t da i h n o y w t , Ameri- cans buy the first time - mixed, of coursie, . with tobacco from~America. ~ng 477 billion cigars and ciga- r'ettes annuall and 110 illi y, m onn _. In every civilized capital in~ the smo ounds of' ki d h i ng an c ew ng, p warld; professors "in the art of whiffing" gave expensiive series of i tobacco ~ e to and snuff, Pocohontas still Rolfe's marri- is being, lectures, according to one' chron- 1 vRdlha il ever after: pp y icl . _ e And if'smoking were that profit- 'alile, Yankee ingenuity calculated. tobacco must have many more uses. Consequently, snuff was born and happily accepted by citizens