The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1910-02-03
USERS 0F CIGARETTES.
Doors that Are Closed AqainSt Those
Who Smoke Then.

ing lOT our competition games
Numerous Schools and Colleges,
mo boy can be a fine athlete, foot
ball. baseball, or basketball player,
runner, jumper, or gymnast who
Heakens his heart and poisens his
blood by cigarette smoking"
2. Business Colleges This is
our experience in teaching more than
fifty thousand young people: cigar
cites bring shattered nerves, mental
weakness, stunted growth, and gen.
eral physical and moral degeneracy
We refuse to receive users of tobac-
co in our institution Henry C. and
Sara A. Spencer, Spencerian Busi-
ness College(
8. Union pacific railroad (Similar
order.)
4. Omaha Schools No two ways
about it. Either let cigarettes alone
or go without an education. The
use Of cigarettes impairs the facul-
ties Of the pupil, and sooner OR later
will ruin him." superintendent O.
maha Schools.)
5. Swift & Co. packing House,
Chicago) and other Chicago business
houses employing hundreds Of boys
aave issued this announcement, or
similar ones; SO impressed with the
hangers cf cigarette using that we
will not employ cigarette user"
6. Marshall Field-Similar an
nOuncement.
7. Life Insurance Companies
lsame) "Cigarette users are bad
cisks.'
8. Lehigh Valley Railroad bars
cigarette smokers.
8. United States Army positions
Thousands Of young men rejected
by medical examiners because they
nave tobacco hearts, the result Of
cigarette smoking." ''In examina-
ton for West Point one fourth Of
the candidates were rejected. Cause,
tobacco heart from cigarette smo-
king.
10. United States Naval Schools
Gut Of 412 boys examined by the ma
val enlisting officers peoria, ii. on
ly IA were accepted Of the 398 rejec-
tions. the greater number on account
of weak hearts. and in the majority
Of cases this was caused by cigarette
5moking."
II. Carson, Pirie and Scott, Chic
ago. bars cigarette smokers as en-
ployees.
u. Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
:ifc Railroad bars cigarette smokers.
l3. Central Railroad, Georgia,
forbids cigarette smoking.
a. High School-'1 will not try
30 educate boy with the cigarette
habit. 1t is wasted time. The boy
couldn't learn. Trying to teach him
would he like talking to a block of
wood. Cigarettes are poisonous. 4
boy who smokes cigarettes can't
learn anything. His mental facul-
ties are blunted. His physical being
is wrecked" ."-Professor Wilkinson,
school principal.
The poor fellow was a complete
@vreck "a high school boy.} He could
not get his mind on anything except
He couldn't study, his
eyesight was effected, he was hag-
gard and pale, he was nervous and
he couldn't remember any
ching longer than a minute, he YVES
nevond redemption. He left school" F"
Coy, high-school princi-
gal.
Boys who smoke cigarettes are
always backward in their studies.
They are filthy in their personal hab-
its, tending to yiciousness; they are
hard to manage, dull in appearance.
There is danger of such boys making
weak and undesirable citizens. y
Principal ". S. Strickland, (All
these instances are from the school
principals Of one large city,
IS. Ayers Sarsaparilla Company,
Lowell, employs hundreds of boys.
March l, 1902: believing that the
smoking Of cigarettes is injurious to
Goth body and mind. thereby unfit
ting young men for their best work,
therefore, after this date, we will
not employ any young man under
twenty-one years Of age who smokes
cigarettes.
16. John Wanamaker's s.-The ap-
plication blank to be filled out by
boys applying for a position reads:
"Do you use tobacco or cigarettes?"
A negative answer is expected, and
is favorable to their acceptance as
employees.
II. Morgan & Wright Tire Co.,
large employers. mo cigarettes
can be smoked by our employees"