The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-15
KANSAS CONNENT
THE CIGARETTE.

THE CIGARETTE.
| Emporia has just furnished q little
instance showing the demoraliZing eff
feet OF cigarette smoking. and every
town on the map can provide plenty of
similar evidence.
| 1t is curious thing about the cigar
\ ette. Any branch of smoking Is bad
habit, but one may smoke pipe or
edgar without being untitled for the
serious duties of life.
1t is different with the cigarette:
when once man has become addicted
to this variety of coffin-nail he APP
pears fighty and rattle-brained and
| loses the power of application; his
memory fails. and he cannot be trust
led; he becomes immoral. and cannot
distin guish between right and wrong;
he loses all sense of responsibility;
there is a rapid deterioration of all his
faculties, and before long he becomes
a 'hend.' or goes to an asylum.
1 Some cigarette smokers make their
| own cigarettes; they buy ordinary
smoking tobacco and prepared papers,
and fool themselves with the argument
that cigarettes they rol! themselves
are harmless; that the manufactured
ones alone are injurious. Thousands
of boys follow this plan. The job Of
rolling cigarettes soon becomes mono
tonous, however, and the smoker usu-
ally ends up by smoking the factory
made ones; and even if he stuck to
the homemade Spikes" he is going
the ordained road of the cigarette
fiend, for the home made product is
just as injurious as any other. The
great evil of the cigarette habit is that
the victim inhales the smoke, and it
makes no difference whatever how the
coffin-nails are made.
Boys who have contracted or are
contracting the cigarette habit should
be made to realize that there are no
harmless cigarettes. The habit will
get them, and make wrecks of them,
and ruin their lives, whether they buy
the cigarettes in handsome packages,
or roll them with. their own hands.
A boy can't smoke cigarettes and
make any progress in the world. He
had chances few years ago, but he
has none now The prejudice against
cigarette smokers has become so strong
and SO universal that business men
won't have them around if it can be
avoided.-Emporia Gazette.
PROTECTION FROM GRAFrERS.
AS the Eagle has mentioned before,
Kansas is now filled with grafters be-
cause the poclketbooks of Kansans are
are filled with money. And money
draws grafterS like molasses attracts
flies. Many people who have money
are being imposed upon by men who
have various schemes calculated to
promote only the interests of the
agents. OF course these are enter
prises being advanced which are legit-
innate, but it is difficult to choose be-
tween the fake scheme and the 1egiti-
mate enterprise In order that graft
J. N. Dolley. bank commissioner of
Kansas. has evolved a plan which he
believes will aid in preventing the hon
est man from being separated from his
money by sherpers. He will be pre-
pared to furnish investors complete in
formation regarding every concern
which is trying to float stock In this
state. as he is establishing bureau
in his department for that sole pur-
pose. He urges farmers, especially,
not to invest 4 cent in stock until they
get from the state banking department
a full report rs to the financial stand
ing of the concern in which stock. is
offered for sale and of the men be-
hind the company. He says that if
any concern offering stock is not listed
he will make a personal investigation.
terprises in which the investors can
safely put their money. In Wichita
there are many good opportunities for
investment. AS a rule it is the out
side concern which needs watching and
the scheme Of the bank commissioner
may result III the saving of much
money to the Kansas investors because
of knowledges the banking department
may gather regarding grating con-
Germs and grafters.-Wichita Eagle.
A DUTY OFTEN NEGLECTED.
Why don't you write home oftener?
This means you. Don't lay the JUNCTION
to your soul that this means some 9TH
er man or woman. 1t does not. It
means you. The writer visited an old
lady the other day and the entire
burden of her complaining was that
her son did not write home as often
as he should. She read letter from
him just received and If you could
have seen her old, wrinkled face light
up, you would have vowed then and
there to write home oftener. Some
people do not have homes to write to
and they are very, very poor.-Law-
renee Journal