Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-09-10

| Next to the parent and the teacher
the family doctor ranks nearest in his
relation to the developing youth. Let
us hear their testimony.
DR.. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia
Medical college says. Smoking and
chewing tobacco, by rendering water
and other simple liquids insipid to the
taste, dispose very much to the use of
ardent spirits. Hence the practice of
smoking cigars has been followed by
the use of brandy and water as
common drink -
Charles Buckley Hubbell, a promi-
nent educator Of New York city, and
at one time president of the board of
education of New York, writes ::
twenty-five years ago the sale of
cigarettes in this country was COM
paratively small. Their use was first
observed among the students of the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute of
Troy, N. Y, which was and still is
patroniZed extensively by Cubans and
South Americans
The cigarette habit, and the inhaling
habit spread from that point until now
| it is more devastating to the health and
morals of boys and young men, than
any habit or vice that can be named
The astonishing feature of the situa-
ton is, that so comparatively few peo-
pie realize the inroads that it has al
ready made on the health, morals and
possibilities of usefulness of our Amer
lean youth.
One explanation Of this, in my opin-
ION, is contained in the fact that a
! very large number of physicians in ev-
cry community are addicted to the Gig
arctic and the inhaling habit. and nat
urally are handicapped in the influence
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pressing this alarming evil.
1t is seldom that one meets a medi-
cal student who is not banefully ad-
dicted this vice, and once the cigarette
habit becomes established it's servitude
is almost certain and unending.
Let us now summon a witness from
some penal institution.
The general superintendent of the
Illinois Reformatory says of ALL boys
received into the reformatory since it's
organization on Jan. 8, 1893, 95 per
cent were in the habit of using tobacco
and nearly all were cigarette smokers.
Does the commercial world know of
\ this? Ask the great railroad corpora
tons. Director Hartman of the I'm
ion Pacific says a railroad might as
we'll go to a county lunatic asylum for
its employees as to continue to employ
cigarette smokers. Several years ago
the Rock Island management added to
its list of applicants QUESTIONS like the
following:
EDO you smoke cigarettes?" Many
other leading corporations have since
fallen into line and are barring posi-
lively men and boys who will not relin-
:, quish the paper torch. Ask also. the
, insurance companies. The oldest Fl
deity insurance company in the coun.
try says: After careful investigation
we have decided that we will not bono
a man who uses cigarettes. because
such men are not safe physically OF
morally.
Ask the postal authorities and tele
, graph companies. many of whom will re-
ply: 'We refuse employment to mer
and boys who smoke while on duty Of
y smoke cigarettes at any time" Blu
, appeal finally to the government under
whose flag we sit today, and Columbi;
will reply, "Nine-tenths of the boy.
who did not pass the examinations a
y, rette smoking. We have absolutel,
+ prohibited the use of cigarettes a
West Point and Annapolis, both on san
: itary and on moral grounds.
y In view of all this evidence agains
y the cigarette. and this is but the leas
of what could be said, of it's injurious
6 effects on both body and soul, and witt
? the law to stand back of you, Will VOL
i not, fathers and mothers. Christian
, men and women, make an effort to saw,
! the children?
God has made you their natural pro
, tectors. Will you be less care-t akin,
:. than the fowls? Watch that happ,
,. family of, dear little chickens, as the,
wander about with no fear of harm
, while the mother is near by providin,
:. for their wants. But somethin,
. troubles the mother See her lookin,
y !, to the right and left. listening intently
. she senses danger for her brood. I
storm is coming and she hastens t.
= gather each dear little chick under he
= wings. safe.
l Would to God that every mothe
could as successfully protect her youn,
:, when the great storms of temptation
. come
: Mrs. A. R. Cowles, Barton, Vt.