The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-06

many stop before the evil. gets such
hold on them. The cigarette is an
insidious poison but is sure and not
always slow When the boy has a sal
low face, a sickly smile and a super
cilious air. moral dissolution, mental
disintegration and physical degenera
tion has set in. He has become a de-
generate. He becomes idle, careless,
inefficient in any place you put him;
he becomes untruthful, deceitfu1, dis
honest; he will steal money from his
parents or postage stamps from his
employer or sell anything he can lay
the deadly cigarettes. He becomes or
acts the part of a hoodm and thinks
it is smart. He dreams over his work,
II he works at all; ne has no idea of
the Importance of his time, money or
opportunities and fritters all of them
away. He has no sense of his respon-
sibility to himself, his friends, family
or employer. He is perfectly willing
to accept anything from everybody
with no thought of giving anything
in return. AS he grows older he ac-
quires the alcohol habit. Ordinary
foods or drink do not satisfy his per-
verted tasts and he must have some
thing stronger. There are many moder
ate users of tobacco who do not use
alcoholic liquors, excessive usuers of
n oil inv ri
have never known an alcoholic who
did not use tobacco. Here fortunately
those who are unfit to live, but if he
survived tobacco and alcohol the
next step is opium. If his case was
helplessness before it is now despair.
To get it he will beg, lie or steal. he
will sell the clothes off his back or
the shoes off his feet. He will sacri-
fee wife, children, home, country or
himself to get the deadly drug. The
arctic or cigar will never smoke the
seeond. The man who does not take
the first drink will never be i1toxicat-
ed. Parental and municipal laws
should be as unyielding as steel. The
dealer who sells cigarettes to boys
should be driven out of the town, it
were better that their sale should be
prohibited altogether. If one man may
sell tobacco and liquors to children
why may not another sell them arsen-
ic and strychnine?
The boy vino has the tobacco habit
should be excluded from schools like
one with smallpox Or diptheria for it
is about as contagious and records
greater list of victims.
But what shall I say about the u.s.
er of alcoholic beverages? Every year
there goes out from the homes of the
land an army of boys who enter the
know what is before them. Not one
but hopes for great Buccess in life
and not one but has parents, family
and friends who expect great things
for him. He has ideals and personif1es
them; he sees men who are respect
ed, honored and successful. He thinks
he would like to be such man as
this one Or that one. He selects his
ideal and watches him, tries to imi-
tate his walk, his talk and his manner.
ly obtains cigarette or the butt of
cigar and tries to do likewise. Then
by easy stages he gets to using more
and more until he is in the tolls from
| which he mas little desire to escape.
! He associates more and more with
| those like him and soon strong drink
adds to his vices and his burdens. He
| boasts that 81 can quit whenever !
want to- but he never wants to. In
medicine rules cannot be made from
| science Of medicine is founded on the
collective experience of all. In my ex
perience of Is years in medicine and
over 5000 different people as pa
tients have never found 1t necessary
to prescribe alcoholic beverages.
have given it in pneumonia under the
advice of a consultant, but each time
with manifestly very bad results. The
alcoholic has almost no chance to re
cover from pneumonia. Life insurance
tables prove that at the age of eigh
teen years the total abstainer has
tlife expectancy of over eight year:
longer than the user of alcohol.
In Australia there were 300 case!
of sunstroke in one month. The vic
Tins were almost exclusively among
the drinking class, and the use of al
coholic stimulants in the treatmen
of the cases was more disastrous thar
any other treatment