The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-05
Anti-Ciearet Movement.

The Anti-Cigaret League in Chicago
Is receiving assurances of active coop
Grafton from prominent commercial
houses and railway officials, in its war
fare on the cigaret habit.
The Union Pacific and the Rock Is
land railroad companies have placed a
ban on cigarets. Notice has been
served on employees that those who are
addicted to the use of cigarets must
give them up or lose their positions.
The employees on division of branch
of the Lake Shore road have been de.
prived of cigarets The managers OF
various railroads operating out of Chi
cago have declared against the cigaret
and several of the roads are expected
to issue general orders prohibiting the
use of cigarets among their employees.
The Anti-Cigaret League has prepared
a circular letter which will be sent to
the general offices of every railroad in
the United States. The action taken
by the Rock Island road is cited in the
circular, and the officials are asked to
use their influence to discourage cigaret
smoking among their employees.
The league already has a long list of
the most prominent business houses In
Chicago which are giving either their
moral or financial support to the work.
The efforts of representatives of the
league in the stockyards district were
soon rewarded by general order from
Swift g. Co., stating that smokers of
cigarets will not be employed hereafter
in that big packing house. The league
expects to get all the large packing
firms to take similar action.
The managers of the Illinois District
Telegraph Company, the American Dis
trict Telegraph Company and the Pos
tai Telegraph Company, have promised
to cooperate with the league. The
superintendent of the league is planning
o take up the work in the Chicago pub
lie schools this fall on a more extensive
scale, and says that within year the
cigaret will have been banished from
several schools. Efforts are to be made
to bring the police force to the assistance
of the league; as soon as public opin-
ion is believed to be strong enough in
its favor, the league will present an or.
dinance to the City Council making it a
misdemeanor for minor to be found
cigaret in any public place.
Attached to the ordinance will be pen
atty of $40, which will be RENTED if the
boy gives information leading to the
of the dealer who sold the
cigarets.
A young Clergyman of New Haven.
Conn, Mr.. Cutten, claims to have dis
covered in hypnotism a cure for the
cigaret habit Mr.. Cutten, who is a
graduate of the academic department
of Yale University. and who spent three
years subsequently in special study in
has been making expert
ments several times each week in the
laboratory of the univer-
sity.
By visiting charity institutions he
concluded from what he saw that the
influence of science would be an aid to
religion as cure for sin.
His first experiment was with boy
inmate of the Calvary Baptist Home,
who was so strongly addicted to the
cigaret habit that he suffered mentally
and physically. Altar putting the boy
under hypnotic influence he lectured
him on the terrible effects of the habit
and told him to stop. The boy seems
to be completely cured.
Asked to analyze the power and how
it operated to cure, Mr.. Cutten said
cannot. 1t is by suggestion.
When hypnotized l tell them not to
smoke or drink. When the subject re-
turns to the normal state the desire is
gone. That is all can tell you.
/ have so far treated about twenty
men, some for the tobacco, others for
The alcohol habit. All have stopped
their indulgences. 1t is too early yet to
say that complete cures have been eff
fected. Authorities say that it takes
i've years to establish cure.
One of my patients used tobacco for
twenty years. He was so much victim
Of the habit that he would pick up old
cigar stumps and smoke them. He has
not used tobacco since first hypnotized
him, on August TO-
Mr.. Cutten says that he will make
further experiments in the treatment of
patients and If he has continued suc-
cess will use it as an adjunct to his work.
Mr.. Cutten's experiments have called
put varied opinions from physicians
and students of psychology. Hypnotism
rs remedial agent and as means of
curing the drink and tobacco habits
has been used and experimental with
Dy Chicago doctors for some time. A
number claim to have cured their
patents and generally to have been sue
,essful in its application in certain dis.
Eases. On the other hand, its use in
medicine and surgery and as cure for
habits has large number Of opponents