The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-20

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i'm the doctor books as q dangerous
siren, has a larger part in the world s
going-on than the Turing Of her
yotaries from present pains into real
or fancied case. Ny Lady Nicotine
has business affairs quite similar In
proportions and portent to those Of
such work-a-day sisters as the Me-
cessity Sisters, Food. Shelter and
Raiment. And her business AFFAIRS
have been quite as much upset by
the smoke OF battle abroad as any
body else's.
+ To father. as he puffs his after
dinner cigar; to mamma. who In
diligently pokesh finger through the
smoke rings he SO cnnningly puffs
forth from his pursed lips; to Stle
Johnalbert who sincerely fiatters by
sucking q bit OF ecross-vfne; even to
the bay Mittyo Mae. who condemns
as silly and futile the whole tobacco
TRADE except the coupons which mean
open-and-shut-eye dolls or a minia-
ture piano, good cigar is a sUoke
land nothing more. They have not
Eyet paused to think that MY Lady
Nicotine is now wrinkling her fair,
lever-young brow over war taxes, sus-
pended credits. collapsed markets.
war risks. bills OF exchange and
warehouse receipts regarded as re-
serve bank assets.
Yet those are the suggestive OF
the manifold difficulties which the
war, now smoking over half Of Eu-
rope, in half score Of seas, and in
the far. quaint corners of China,
IlofA kOh "a Eft M faf
OF American tobacco, grown almost
the market dropped out. A valuable
crop, Just reaching maturity, was in
the twinkling OF an eye made for thee
present into SO much useless vege-
table matter. Buyers representing
great corporations and even greater
nations, who would In few days
have been bidding for the crop, van
ished from Tobacco Land.
For time, it seemed that only
that part of our domestic tobacco
would be sold which the people Of
the United States themselve would
smoke, chew and fnhale as snuff.
| Great Britain. Italy, Germany,
France, Spain. Austria, Belgium and
Japan seemed entirely eliminated
from the tobacco trade in which
Italy, France. Spain, Austria and
Japan are knowns as reggie" pur'
chasers, those governments exer-
cising monopoly on tobacco and buy
ing their supplies in the United
States and elsewhere through spe-
cially commissioned agents.
This slump in the export trade de-
preciated almost to nothing such to.
baccos as the Maryland. which is
Hight, mild and OF good burning
Equality, useful in admixtures. and
1.-THE heavy, dark, fire-cured stobaccos
which are most popular in the for
z cign trade. And here it may be
noted that the tobacco habit is as
strong nationally as it is individuals
lily; nations like the kind they are
used to. The popularity of Mary.
Hand tobaccos in Holland and France
dates from the settlement OF Mary
Hand under palatinate government
which made that colony, though
English. free to ship, its proNncts to
other countries than England, whila
other colonies were restrained un-
I der their charters to ship their prod
ucts only to the mother country.
j But all the tobaccos-the Burley.
whose drinking" or absorbent quail
lily makes 1t admirable adaptable to
treatment with artificial "sweeten-
ing" and other Sauces" the mfH6.
fine. bright" tobaccos of the Caro-
ilinas and Virginia, and the several
tobaccos which grow in the Connec-
ticut valley, Wisconsin, Ohio, the
Gulf states and in other sections Of
the United States-Iere affected by
the war. As trade has tended to ap-
proach its normal in distribution,
the tobacco market has eased some-
what, but even now it is not strong
or steady.
That means a great economic
problem. You may agree with King
James as to the effects. as por-
|ttrayed in His Mejesty's Counter
blaste to Tobacco" Of this shrinking
smoke being sucked up by the nose
and imprisoned in the cold and
|imoist brains!' Or you may as high
lily regard the weed as that Jean Nicot
who presented tobacco seeds to Cath
crime dc Medici. But in either case
you have to think very seriously. Of
smoke when you reflect that in 1913
the people Of the United States grew
tobacco on 1.216.100t acres. which
produced 953,734,0O0 tons valued at
II 1922, 4S1, 900.
When SO large an asset. even II it
Is intended to be rendered into more
or less OF nothing by fumigation and
eSpectoration. Is SUDDENLY deprecated,
the whole nation cannot but feel the
loss In August. 1918, the exports
OF leaf stems and trimmings were
69,920.916 pounds. valued at ST.
230.6i2; for August, 1914, they
were IL ,s70,2o8 pounds. valued at
s1,722,124. For September, 1913,
these exports were 49.206.36S pounds
valued at s5.667,307; while in Sep
TENDER. 1914. they were 26,122.266
pounds, valued at $3.690.34S. There
is a tremendous decline In exports
from one year to another. though
the month OF September, when trade