The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-05-23

reflections for physical defects were
reported as eighty per cent, and to-
bacco heart was the most prominent
ly noted cause of rejection. 1t COM
pletely unfits men for hard march
ing
Japanese statesmen, then anticipat-
ncr war with Russia, read of these re-
iiections, and said, "If we are ever go
rG to fight Russia successfully we
must change our universal habit of
smoking cigarettes from childhood"
II was then the custom for both boys
ard GIRLS in J2nan to smoke cigarettes
almost as soon as they we're able to
walk. The Japanese smoke more sci
cntitically than other people, throw
ing away each cigarette when half
consumed because they know the nico-
tine grows more harmful as it comes
0rarer the mouth, and smoking in
their thimble-size pipes only two or
three whiffs at a time
But despite such precautions, Japa-
nese statesmen know that tobacco in
any form would diminish military eff
ticiency.
Accordingly. the Hon. Sho Nemoto,
Christian member of parliament, in
troduced a bill that no youth in Japan
should use tobacco berofe 20 years of
awn. which it their neriod of ma
iority, nor after that if he was still
in school or college.
When the Japanese, eight years af-
ter that law was passed, made war on
the BIGGEST nation in the world, they
sometimes marched two days without
food. and then went on and de-
foatcd their foes. Such men are not
"sissies."
1t was easier for these Japanese to
be the cleancst army morally since
the days of Cromwell, with no inn.
moral women among the camp follow
years without tobacco, which is di-
rect stimulant to the baser passions.
Every one who uses it makes harder
for himself the battle for purity,
"iiNll NNNIH hlS'l W HO CSISSbio .hio
own health and success aspires to win.
With all this machinery of promo
tion in full swing at the time we en-
tered the world war, it was possible
in week to start campaign to make
smokers of all our soldiers, even
The president of the Grand Trunk
to pass the physical examination be-
cause they had previously used to-
bacco little or not at all. Simultan-
eously in newspapers all across the
land departments were opened to
gather money from philanthropic per-
sons by appeals to charity" and "pa-
triotism" to present cigarettes and
other forms of tobacco to our soldiers.
The beloved Red Cross organization
joined in the appeal for tobacco % be.
sent to the soldiers, and when &e-a.,
Presbyterian Preachers Meeting of
the National Capital and others sent a
protest against Red Cross funds being
spent in that way, urging that no
sanction should be given to the use
of this harmful narcotic by having it
"thrust upon the soldier by the gov
ernment as a part of the ration Tin
the Galvan billy or presented as a
charity" the MANAGEMENT of the Red
Cross did not deny the use of their
funds in that fashion, but justified it
as for the comfort of the soldier.
1t would be easy to show from num-
erous testimonies of distinguished
physicians that the giving of Gig
arettes to soldiers in hospitals is the
worst of all the many misuses of to-
bacco. And there is just now more
of this cigarette smoking in hospitals
than ever before. Professor Irving
Fisher, of Yale University, in a fine
booklet entitled as the Tobacco Habit
Injurious?" quotes DR.. Huber as say
ing: "The use of tobacco has been
observed to induce diminution of the
therapeutic effects of medicines and
to retard the healing Of wounds"
The presiden tof the Grand Trunk
railway, who went down with the Ii
tanic, said to the writer, "We have
gotten rid of the smokers. They lose
their nerve in sudden accident. =
(Taken from article by Wilbur f.
Crafts, Ph.D., April, 1879