El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-06
WOMAN CIGARET
SMOKER No GOOD
Show Me the Woman Who
Smokes and I've Got Her
Number" Lecturer Says.


pep" was the subject Of J. NJ
Erickson's morning talk at the Chau-
tauqua Saturday morning and he gave
a practical demonstration Of his sub
ject by injecting all Of his $50 horse
power pep" into his lecture
''Pep-unadulterated pep is life, vim,
ginger, get-up-and-go," he declared
1t is more. 1t is power, efficiency
and push. Peplessness is a crime. When
I see a man who is pepless he rests me
to look at him. The pepless man is a
knocker. He is against progress. He
Is pessimist-a man who drops fear
thought into the minds Of the men VINO
come in a community to spend their
money and to make it go and those
same men leave after the pepless per
son has got to them.
No Use For KnOcl<er-
Il have no use for a man who knocks
lie retards every community and never
does anything himself Neither nave
1 any use for the man who has accum-
ulated wealth for the selfish purpose
OF holding it and giving nothing IN
return. But many Of those who have
wealth have acquired it because they
developed habit Of work, desire to
help humanity and, then incidentally
they have acquired wealth We want
more such men for they are the ones
who are doing the most for the country.
Millionaire who Worked.
For example. called on friend
Of my fathers in Chicago. He is a
multi-millionaire. I found him at his
desk with his sleeves rolled up work
ing hard with the beads OF persplra-
ton streaming off his face. tod
him he must quit that or he would
kill himself. He answered that he was
losing $1,000 a day and that he must
stay by his plant, not for himself but
for the men and women who worked
there and who depended upon him for
their daily bread. They helped me
to make my fortune he said am
not going to quit them now and they
will have work il it takes every dol
lar have
Monied Men Do Things.
ct is the monied men who are do
ing things in this world They have
developed pep-an ability to WORK.
Take Luther Burbank, of California,
and Thomas A Edison, Of East Orange
They have all accumulated wealth but
they did it as an incident to their hard
work, to their service to mankind and
they deserve all they have earned and
more. They are not knockers. They
are builders and doors and men who
make the world go around.
Habit the Thing.
inventory Of yourself and see how you
stand with yourself. ] am not a crank
on liquor. But liquor drinking Is
waste Of time and energy and the man
who swills down liquor can't amount
to much. Take the places where the
wealth OF the country gather Take
Del Monte, Newport, Washington. There
the women sit around drinking liquor
and smoking cigarets. Show me
woman who smokes cigarets and you
don't have to tell me any more about
her. I've got her number. These
women with penciled eyebrows. face
painted, frizzled hair. who sit and gos-
sip and do nothing but chew gum, play
ragtime and flirt are of no value TO
the world II any one Of you men in
this audience should kiss them you
would die of painters collie.
CiEarets and Future.
Neither am I opposed to using to-
bacco in moderation 1 enjoy a cigar
after dinner, when I am sitting around
a big fireplace in your hotels out here
in the west with a number Of business
men around me and we are talking and