Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-02-24

On this page today appears re
markable statement from a Boston
paper as to the increase in the manu-
facture, sale and consumption" o
cigarettes in the United States dur
ing a series of years past, eliminating
in a figure of tragic proportions TO
the twelvemonth just ended. The at
tention of thoughtful people is di
rected to the statement, in the hop
that the seriousness of the showing
may arouse and solidify sentimen
against this most demoralizing, sense
less and menacing vice.
AS criterion of lavish prosperity,
to quote our Boston contemporary
the rapidly increasing use OF the dead
" cigarette has hardly established its
value or reliability. But as an evl-
dence that the cigarette habit is gain
ing year by year an astounding num-
Der of new devotees, the statistics
are alarmingly convincing. Naturally
these recruits come almost wholly
from the ranks OF the young, and this
is condition that calls for energetic
action. 1t is demonstrable, also, that
the habitual use of the little white
coffin-nail' is on the increase among
women-it is said that in the larger
cities of the country the fact is SC
we'll recognized that some hotels have
smoking rooms exclusively Tor Ia
dies" and certain dealers in tobacco
brands. blends and mixtures, make
specialty of catering to the female
trade.
The thing is too disgusting and nau
seating to be discussed patiently, ant
ries about womenno reich o!emf,o
no wonder numerous state legisla
lures this winter are earnestly consid
erinp the enactment of strict anti-ciS
arctic laws. We hear occasional sto-
ries about women adicts to the habit
in this city-lt is deported that their
ruby lips and lily fingers are frequent
" thus soiled in clubs, cafes, cabarets
and even in private homes. If true, II
is abominable and appalling, and the
demand for the enforcement OF suci
laws and ordinances as apply to tn
evil should be loud and insistent. Al
so it is high time there were a relent
less crusade against the conscienceles
rogues who sell or give cigarettes to
minors. Finally, it is a time whei
every moral force and scientific sua'
sion in the community should be en-
listed against habit so degradin
and tendency SO vile.-Desere
News.
Japan exported about $500,0C0,0O,
worth OF products, and importe'
about $350,000,000 worth during tn
first Il months of the past year, leav
ing a favorable balance OF abou
$l50,000,000. Exports OF cotton yarn
and fabrics showed an increase iron
$50,OO0,OOO in 1915 to %l,000,0O0 il
1916; exports of matches increase
about $2,500000; copper, $S,0OO,OOO
and considerable increases were re
corded in exports of porcelain.
The most important imports con
sisted of cotton, wool, iron ole, rods
plates and machinery, in all OF whicl
large increases were recorded. Japan
is on the job. All these imports ar
to be used in the manufacture o.
goods at a labor cost OF from 10
rs cents a day, and much OF them wi
come to us paying less than revenue
rates. The Shensi opium fields {.
China having given way to cottoi
plantations, Japan is talking Of estab-
fishing a large cotton mill in that vi
cinity to take care of the crop Thi
will have further tendency to Dust
Americans from the Chinese market il
cotton cloths. She is now driving the
COAST lil1llCIS VI tiilS NouHii y
out of the Chinese market and she
was looking forward to lucrativ
Oriental business in woollen textile
before the British Government elected
to take over the entire Australian and
New Zealand wool crop. The Japan
csc banks are stuffed with specie as q
result of her war order prosperity
and this money is to be used to deve'
op Japanese industries.
The remarkable fexibility of cleo.
trio power makes it an important
adjunct of the modern farm.
The demand for farm labor in
creases with the demand for farm
produce. and the increasing cost O.
production and distribution to the
consumer The only way this, ha