The sun., 1919-03-15
DOPED CIGARETTES
MAKE HEROES GRIN
Some Angry at First About
Pastor Wilson'S Outburst
Against War Solace.
VICTIMS OF HABIT TALK
One Tells of the Shocking (?)
Effect Smoking Had OH
His Workmanship.
VICTIMS OF habit TALK


since Wilhelm dissolved his partnership
with Gott-yet they were angry too.
The particular occasion that led the
men or war to assume a belligerency
they have gradually been laying aside
since the armistice was an article Dr.
Wilson sent out in which he said in ef-
feet that American soldiers were SO
poisoned by nicotine that the boys were
often made shaky and Just couldn't hold
their guns without having a cigarette to
tortify them-that the tremo7s of shell
shock victims really were due to the
use of tobacc
n despatch from Ocean Grove repre-
sented DR.. Wilson as saying in
speech before the New Jersey Conference
Of the NJ. Il. Church at Ocean Grove
that men on the firing line who had been
deprived of these invaluable aids TO
fighting men for even an hour became
so broken up that they had to be called
on the Job, being virtually pills without
he pills Yes, sir. and what's more. the
Tobacco Trust" which got rest while
the country was attending to Germany,
was dragged out of retirement and
burned in effigy by DIR. Wilson as being
responsible for this awful tobacco cpl
demic.
Knows One "TerribIe Example"
He charged that the horrible trust"
taking advantage of war times, had
roisted cigarettes on the soldiers which
caused them to become drug addicts be-
cause they had so much opiate jazz in
them. Why, didn't DIR. Wilson his own
self know minister who had been serv-
irg with the Y. NJ. c. A. In France and
who had held lighted cigarettes in his
mouth in order to have them hot Off the
griddle for the soldiers as they came out
of the trenches all but reduced to their
second childhood because they had gone
without the loathsome weed for 80 long?
And would you believe it, Or. Wilson's
friend has now become a drug addict
smoking thirty and thirty-ive of the
nasty things Il day?
When this was put Up to officers at
The Pershing Club last night they eX-
pressed wonder at the fact that, If this
we're So the American soldiers, befogged
with opiates and barnacled with tobacco
weeds. had ever managed to pull through
the war alive, let alone win 1t. The Of
Ulcers felt that, assuming just for the
sake OF argument that DIR. Wilson NAV
have been right. there must have been
something radically wrong with the
American Army to win in the face of
such odds
That was about the attitude of Capt
Gun Battalion. Thirtieth Division. who
met the world shaking revelations of
DIR. Wilson with broadside of grins
Capt. Fitzpatrick went all through the
snoke-of battle. not cigarettes-along-
side the Twenty-seventh Division in the
south of France, and he was put out
OF action on october 10 last by she'll
fraGments-he made II plain It wasn't
by doped cigarettes.
..DOpers" May Do 1t as Charity.
II don't see how" said Capt. F'itz-
patrick If the cigarettes were doped.
the manufacturers could make a profit
out of them, unless they were doing the
doping for charity. The cigarettes we
bought over there cost 8 cents for a
pack of twenty, and probably the whole
sale price was about or cents. Well.
unless the manufacturers have some
wonderful new process for making mar
cotlcs like no much dirt, l don't see how
they could profitably put costly cocaine
into cigarettes-enough cocaine to give
mans nerves a good kick
The only complaint ever heard
about the cigarettes over there was that
there wasn't enough OF them. We
bought many more cigarettes than were
issued to us, and these were obtained
at the canteens, being the same that
are supplied TO the general public. II
the manufacturers were selling doped
cigarettes TO the army, then they must
have the public completely drugged with
tnc same-brauds
81 smoked everything in sight, espe-
cially when | was convalescing for four
months in n London hospital. and
never felt doped from thenl-and ! guess
don't look II. either. Medical officers,
ministers and chaplains dispensed
ciearettes-everybody smoked them and
Teyer kicked, except for more. You had
to smoke them-they proved a sedative-
and If a man had his serves blasted 1t
was from shell shock, and not from any
narcotic INT in a cigarette"
y similar opinion was expressed by
Capt. w. b. Cheney. discharged two
weeks ago from the infantry, who is CO.
ING to sail overseas to-day with a con-
slgnment OF cigarettes for the Red Cross
worth $1,000, which the Captain was
quite confident didn't contain dope, even
though he hadn't smoked all OF them.
i We been in the army eighteen years"
said the Captain. I've smoked army
cigarettes all the time, and I've never
felt and i'll effects. l certainly don't look
IS though they had made a wreck of me-
do 1?' And the husky, ruddy faced
Captain smilingly thumped himself on
his bullying chest
Awful 60 Eject on Marksman.
Those medals for expect marksman
and pistol shot don't look as though the
cigarettes had made your hand wab-
Bile, the reporter remarked.
NO, and l got them for scores made
after smoking cigarettes" said the
Captain. This talk by DR.. Wilson is
all nonsense wouldn't he taking cigar
cites over II / thought they would hurt
the boys The issue cigarettes all come
through the Army Quartermaster Corps
and are carefully nspected-though Dr.
Wilson may wish to imply that there's
something wrong In the way the depart
ment has handled this"
Another officer who made a few plthy
remarks on the subject was Lieut.. J. Fl.
Beach OF the Eighth Infantry, Cana
uians, who went through the whole show
until he was wounded at Paschendaele
Wood in 1914 He tried every brand OF
every country in the war he said smok-
ing sometimes forty a day, though it
wasn't for that he received the Croix de
Guerre.
I've never seen any one spoiled by
the cigarettes he said. 81 used to re7u-
late my time by them--my watch being
put out of action I'd pinch them off al
what thought were two hour intervals
and I'd generally find after carefully
measuring the lengths. that was
pretty near right. How could l have
measured them so well II my brain was
muddled by dope? ?"
Other army officers of higher rank at
the Army and Navy Club who withheld
fheir names carried convictions along