Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-28
W. c. T, U.

our Union a package OF the Hteia'
ture belonging to the department
lately, but as we have no local su'
perintendent of Anti Narcotics, we
will give our readers some extracts
from the leafet sent US. We have
had no local superintendent OF this
department for the reason that the
work being chiefly with children
can be done more effectively
through the L. 7 L. than by sep
arate organization.
Cisarets Condemned.
The supreme court of Tennessee
declared the law forbidding the sale
or giving away of cigarefs In that
State on constitutional, and said In
part, as follows:
1--WE think cigarets are not legit'
innate articles of commerce, because
they are wholly noxtous and deleter'
iuus to health. Their use IS always
harmful; never beneficial. They
possess no virtue, but are inherent
ly bad, and bad only. They find no
true commentator or merit or use
fitness In any sphere. On the con.
trary, they are widely condemned
as pernicious altogether. Beyond
question their every tendency Is
toward the impairment of physical
health and meutal vigor."
The Cisarst and the Boy Offender.
AT a national conference OF char.
tiles and corrections, held In Gin
cinnati, Hon. George Torrance,
formerly superintendent of the
Illinois state reformatory, said:
"There Is no surer way for the
young boy to procure as associates
the criminal and immoral than for
him to begin the smoking of olga
rets; the use of the cigalet draws
to him the older and more vicious
who are ready to initiate him into
that kind of life which paves his
way to destruction"
Mr.. WI Bodine, superintendent
of the department of Compulsory
Education In the city of Chicago, Is
authority on the truancy que' tton
and deeply interested In the small
boy problem He writes:
I desire to state that the maj ority
of habitual truants and delinquents
In the city of Chicago are addicted
to the use OF cigarets. A box OF
c'garets and a yellow backed Eve
cent novel seem to be the invarlable
aoiuucts OF truancy among chronic
truants. The literature conta mi
mates the mind Of the boy and the
cigaret menaces his physical wei
farce I regret tie state that one OF
the ambitions OF the rising genera
ton is to initiate the habits OF men
particularly the smoking habit
Boys see their fathers smoking
about the house, and with such an
example before their eyes, day after
day. they are soon possessed with a
desire to indulge In the most modi'
fed, but the most dangerous, form
of smoking, 1. e., the cigaret.
No devotee of tobacco ever grad
uated at the head of his class at
Harvard.
At Yale University the students
of each class are ranked In four
grades, according to their scholar
ship An inquiry recently institut
ed developed some interesting facts
as to the relation of the tobacco
habit to low grading. Of the forty
students holding the first rank, but
ten used tobacco. while twenty two
out of the twenty-six In the fourth
or lowest rank, used the weed
Dept. LsafIst 4l...Can You Afford It?
If you use cheap tobacco, 1 want
70 tell you why 1t Is cheap 1t Is a
mixture of burdock, lampblack,
sawdust, colts foot, plantation
leaves. fuller's earth, lime, salt,
alum and a little tobacco? Can you
afford to take such a mess as that
between your lips? Benjamin
Franklin says, II never saw we'll
man In the exercise of common
sense who would say that tobacco
did him any good"
DR.. Ferguson says: II believe
no O who smokes tobacco before
the bodily powers are developed
ever makes a vigorous man." 1t
not only Injuries the body but the
mind also. DR.. Prince for long
while superintendent of the insane
asylum at Northampton, Mass,
says: Gully half OF the patients
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