The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-04-20
The Deadly Cigarette.

Miss Louise Z. Hollister, national
organizer and lecturer OF the W. |
T. u, lectured to good congregn
ton in the Colfax Methodist church
last Sunday evening. In the course
of her interesting talk on Temperance
matters. she referred to the rule of thu
bankers ass0cintion of the great cit,
Of Chicago, and stated that no cigar
cite smoker could unemployed in any
of the banks OF that city except az
porters sand cuspidorclenners. Think
oil that, boys, among the thousands
of employees in the banks o! that great
city, cigarette smokers can never
hope for any higher position than
that of sweeping the floors and clean
ing spittoonsl The deliberate con
yiction of those bankers is that cip-
arctic smoking SO dulls the mind "a
to render n man unit to keep hooks
or he entrusted with any responsible
position that requires skill and un-
Outstanding. But that is not the
worst fea ture of the case; these bank
ers claim that moral sense of percep-
ton is blunted by the use OF cigar
cites, and in very large percentage
of eases cigarette smokers become
dishonest and are not to be- trusted.
In August of las year Lie t. VIM.
T.. Bennett. 25th U. s. lnfnntry, in
charge Of the New Orleans recruiting
office, sounded note OF warming to
the young men OF New Orleans and
other Southern cities, the OCCASION
for this being the fact that out OF n
total of 100 applicants during July
only twenty-nne men were found
physically fit To enter the army. Ac-
cording to Lieut. Benefits Observa-
tions out of the same number of ap.
plicants many Of the new states west
OF the Mississippi river or in Ohio
Indiana or Kentucky, the number 81
enIistmentso out ofso many applicants
would have been as high rs 60 or 80
The reason for such an unsatisfactory
condition in the South as ascribed b,
the officer to cigarette smoking, lat'
hours and other bad habits.
The dulling and supplying effect o
cigarettes can he observed by an,
father or mother who will note tn
mistakes and blunders that thei
boys will make alter becoming con
firmed cigarette smokers. DR.. Chap
pell, in the Children's Visitor, refer
to this matter in the following article
Doubtless most of our readers hav
heard Of Luther Burbank. the :. Plan
Wizard" who has wrought such maj
wells in producing new varieties Z
fruits aud flowers. He surprised IN
by saying: 1.-The men | found unabl
to do the delicate work of buddin
invariably turned out to be smoker
OF uTtuhcI6. icrC titVi VIM eAVs
to do the rongh work OF farming, Gu
budding and other delicate work put
tering, and have to giveit up, OWN
to inability tOconcentrat e their nprv
force. Even men who smoke on
cigara day cannot he trusted wit
some Of the most delicate work.
Cigarettes are even more damas
ing than cigars, and their Use b
young boys islittle short Of crimina
and will produce in them the sam
result that sand placed in a waite
will produce-destructio
IL do not think that anybody ca
possibly bring up favorable a
gument for the use of cigarettes b
boys. Several Of my young acquain
ances are in their graves who gay
promise of making happy and usef
citizens. and there is no questio
whatever that cigarettes alone We
the cause Of their destruction.
boy living would commence to u
cigarettes il he knew what a useles
soulless, worthless thing they wou
make OF him"