Willmar tribune., 1912-10-30
A WARNING TO BOY SMOKERS

mitting the crime of shooting Stanford
White, he sat at table in the Madison
Square Garden putting cigarettes ana
broOding. His fatal decision came in a
cloud Of smoke. His nrst request be-
hind the bars was for cigarettes. Re-
member1ng that his Sanity was called in
question. we may attribute his condition
to result Of long practice in this fora
Of intemperance.
Captain Peter c. Haines, who got into
the newspapers a few years ago had
long been slave to the cigarette habit.
His complexion is yellowed, his eyes
amber hued and sunken, his lips puffei
and cracked; and his fingers, blotched
and stained with nicotine, betray the
| fend smoker.
Inspector McCafferty Of New York s
! headquarters detective bureau is authoc-
ity for this statement. Fully IS per cent
of the people we arrest are cigarette
| fiends We expect to find nicotine
stains on the fingers of every one we
! arrest. There is a pretty close connec-
tiOn between crime AMI cigarettes. They
play havoc with the nerves. The shrew6
| est crook, however, leaves the cigarette
alone. He needs his brain to cover his
crooket1ness. The fends usually are
depraved weaklings, nervous, visionary,
imaginative, likely to do a desperate
deed upon the slightest provocation"
Of all forms of intemperance, the
cigarette habit is the one to which stu
dents are most addicted I remember
! reading this advertisement a few weeks
ago, among the want items: WANTED,
! in live town, barber who is a trom-
! bone player. College students and Gig
arctic smokers need not apply" Evil
IDENTIFY this man Of the business street
had learned to associate the college COL
ors with the cigarette chaser. He had
been Influenced in his opinion by boys
! who are not types at all of the student
body. Nor is this habit confined to the
male side of humanity alone. With the
daughter of former president Of the
United States smoking cigarettes at the
rate of 40 per day, and with the girls
sharing lights and cis'arette papers with
her male companions, and with the
"makings' as an important part of her
travelling outfit, it would seem that
there was much need of education anil
guidance among others besides the boys
of the streets. If the girls only re-
mained true to the principles of pure
womanhoOd, much less of this vice
would exist. A vice that is respected
in any degree always becomes popular.
Much therefore can I've done in stamp
ing out the evil If the stamp Of dis
approval is only manifested by those
who are really not in sympathy with
such misdoings.
Only last week, three boys of less
than ten years of age, members of in
huential families, were seen taking turns
'dragging" at the stubb of a cigarette
thrown away perhaps by some hobo, OF
by some one of lesser standing. This
may not have been the first lesson, no1
is it likely to be the last. Will ths
parental authority that Is being lost
with each succeeding generation ever be
restored? Will the respect for law, the
foundation of all government, be estab.
lished? VIII the good example of oul
best people, and the sad cases Of the
victims Of the habit have the desired
effect? Or must few of each com.
munity, who have back bone, become
martyrs for the cause? The school mer
stand for everything that hinders the
progress Of the school, the health OF
the pupil. and the general good of the
community.