The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-09-12
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Edited By the
Womcn's Christian Temperance Union
OUR UPAs TREE.

Business men are refusing more
and more tJ employ cigarette sinol :
ers, on the grounds of economy and
good service.
The Mobile, Jackson and Kansas
City railroad no longer employs Gig
arctic smokers. giving ten reasons
for this order:
Il. 1t IL degrading 2. 1t IL in
furious to the nervous system. 3.
1t IL offensive to others. L. 1t pre-
vents resistance to disease. 3. Ii
retards physical growth. q. 1t In
jures the hearts action. Z. Ii h a.
form Of slavery. s. 1t is "A step to-
ward alcoholism and optimism. y.
1t exploits a ideally poison. nicotine.
~. Ii makes an employe less valu-
able to his employer"
H. A. Parker, general manager OF
the Rock Island railroad. said: "lu
my Judgment IL IL impossible for a
cigarette smoker to make "a good
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smokers are dull and half asleep most
Of the time. Would the t.aveling
public feel sale on the Rock Island
road II IL WAS known that the train
dispatchers were cigarette fiends. or
that the drivers of the big passenger
engines wee devoted 10 smoking
the filthy things. or that the switch
tenders aud tower men worked with
cigaretts between their teeth? The
imnIeciiate danger from the blunder
Of a cigarette fiend might not be as
great as that from ~ drunken EN-
ploye. but the danger Is too great
for the Rock island to assume.
d. w. Ruggles. general pnssenger
agent of the Michigan Central rail
road. said: do you think 1t would
lie possible to make A No. railroad
man out vi cigarette smoker? II
might he. but have never seen the
finished article with cigarette in
his mouth. There is an unwritten
something about It which condemns
young man. IL Is u real handicap
Ia any business career, aud an espec-
tally severe handicap IN the railroad
business. Give me employees who do
not have the habit"
George Heafford, general passenger
agent Of the st. Paul railroad. said:
Cigarette smoking IL the most dis
gushing habit / know. and do not
think any one ever amounted to any
thing who became a fiend at It."
j. n. Hampe. manager Of the street
railway in Lincoln. Neb.. said: zig
arctic smokers are unworthy of con
fids nee, and have little interest In
the business Of the employers"
The manager vi the Reading rail
road said: Men who smoke cigar
etts are liable to lapses Of memory.
md Il IL not safe to- trust the lives oil
passengers in their hands,
George Baumhon. superintendent
electric car line, st. Louis. said:
Under no circumstances will | hire
a man who smokes cigarettes. He
IL as dangerous at the front end ol
motor as man who drinks; IN
fact he Is more dangerous. His
nerves are bound to give way at q
critical moment. Amotorman ueeds
all his nerve all the time, aud Gig
arctic smoker can standthe strain. :
Montgomery Ward 4 Co.. Chicago
amid: I'VE do not hire cigarette
smokers. No boy who smokes for
any length Of time is as dit for work
or play us one who does not smoke. ,
John w. Farwell. OF Farwell Bros.
Chicago. said: Il would as lief EN-
ploy a youth who stole sheep as ont
who smokes cigarettes. One is nc
more to be trusted than the other. :"
The Pittsburg Railways company
lately sent this notice to employees
For the betterment of the servic'
and the safety Of the public. 1t will
from this date. he the policy Of th'
company not to retain in it's emplo,
men who use Intoxicating drinks d
cigarettes, or are In the habit o
gambling. lt becomes TN
duty Of this management to have II
it, service only men of sober ant
temperate habits. physically an'
mentally able to perform the dutie
70 which they may be assigned. |"
cigarettes are also the cause Q
much insaislty. crime and suicide
The physicians Of insane asylum
tell us that insanity caused by Gig
arvtts IL rapidly increasing On
can hardly read a newspaper with
out finding Items like the following
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