The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-10-25

noe fthe most popular songs
among the doughboys Of the A. E. F.
Contains these stirring lines:
ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
If the Camels don't get you
The Fatimas must"
That is theway the boys over there
poke good-humored ridicule at the
anti-cigarette mOralists. Perhaps
there are American soldiers overseas
who don't smoke cigarettes either
the ready-made or roll-your.own kind
If there are any such, however, they
have not yet been mentioned in the
dispatches. The cigarette is as much
necessity in the maintenance of
thatintangible but very real element
we call morale as any other part of
the soldiers necessary or incidental
equipment, and when one considers
what our cigarette-smoking army is
doing and the workmanlike way in
which it is doing it, it does seem as
IL the anti-cigarette crusaders had very
few legs left to stand on. 1t was a
full generation ago that they began
to assert, with much higalutin' EN-.
phasis, that the cigarette was under.
mining the manhood and sapping the
vitality of American youth. Most of
our boys over there have been born
since the cigarette first became popu
lar in America; most of them have
been cigarette smokers from an age
even younger than the most ardent
devotee of "MiLady Nicotine" regart
as the proper age to begin smoking
One of the most important services
the organizations representing tn,
United War Work Campaign are rend
ering in their great task of maintain
ing the link between tn ehomes owe
here and the boys over there is tn,
n supplying of cigarettes. The figure
,rbare astounging. One organization
IcNlone shipped S4S,7S5,SO2 cigarettes il
tbe fret year that our boys were OF
5heother side to say nothing of 32
D 100000 cigars and 2,500,O00 package
of smoking tobacco.
1t is especially interesting also t.
note in the same list of shipment Il
$4,000 packages fchewing gum
More gum than that is going over nov
since General Pershing has given hi
official indorsemen ito the use O
chewing gum as means of conserN
ing the drinking water supply whil
on the march and in the trenches
Chewing gum has also been tn
target for much abuse from the we
meaning, although the gum chewer
who are the targets for much of thi
criticism are not Of the sex of whic
the A. e. F. is composed. We do nc
recall any serious attacks upon TIL
use of chewing gum by the male col
tingent. 1t is surprising that the Ge
man pres shas not adduced this us
of chewing gum by American soldier
a sproof of the effeminacy of ou
fighting men.
Not all of the $170,500,00O which IL
organizations combined in United VIZ
Work Campaign require to keep u
their work for the next year is to
spent for cigarettes and chewing GU
by any means, but the Importance
these two items should not be owe
looked. Anyone who does not appro,
OF either may have the satisfaction
knowing that at least as much as h
own particular contribution will
used for some other purposes such
books, baseball bats, doughnuts
dominoes, Indeed, the range of Il
activities and the catholicity of Il
appeal of the United War work Cam
aign are such that it is difficult
see how any good American can fiji
and excuse for not giving.