The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-03-11
SOME CIGARETTES TO SMOKE

Iy Cobb says: TOO much cannot be
said against the evils of cigarette
smoking. 1t Supplies the brain, saps
vitality, undermines ones health, and
lessons the moral fibre. No boy who
hopes to be successful in any line can
afford to contract habit that is SO
detrimental to his physical and moral
development"
Clarke Griffith, Manager Of the
Washington Nationals, says, "Our fail
ure to come up to expectations has
been largely due to the fact that some
of the players on whom depended were
cigarette fiends. There will be no more
of it. Any player that insists on smok-
ing cigarettes is thru, so far os the
Nationals are concerned; and that
goes so long as I am manager of the
team. No man in athletics for living
can use them."
Hugh Jennings, Manager of the De
troit Tigers says: 81 have found in
the baseball profession that the men
who have made the greatest success
are those who have abstained from al
coholic drinks and from the use of the
filthy cigarette. Cobb, Crawford,
johnson, Alexander, Mathewson, Ed
die Collins, and in fact l recall more
than a hundred men who are recog-
nized as baseball stars, have never
smoked cigarette and are abstainers
from alcoholic beverages"
Thos. A. Edison, the Electrical wiz
ard, says, "The injurious agent in
cigarettes comes principally from the
burning paper wrapper. The substance
thereby formed is 'Acrolein'. 1t has
a violent action on the nerve centers,
producing degeneration of the cells Of
the brain, which is quite rapid among
boys. Unlike most narcotics, this de-
generation is permanent and uncon-
trollable. I employ no person who
smokes cigarettes"
The Cadillac Motor Car Co. of De-
troit Mich. says, "Boys who smoke
cigarettes we do not care to keep in
our employ. In the future we will not
hire any one in our factory whom we
know to be addicted to this habit.
Dozens of other we'll known firms
have no time for the cigarette smoker.
Prof. w. A. McKeever, of Manhat-
ten, Kan, investigating the records of
1886 boys who smoked cigarettes,
found only six who were first class
in their studies; only ten were aver
age, while all the rest were poor or
worthless students. Of this bunch of
boys normally 584 should have been
bright, 1854 average, and 5S4 poor.
(Only one chance in a thousand for a
cigarette smoker to be successful
student.) .. ,-....
But note especially, the proposed
amendment to our N. Oak. Anti-cig-
arctic law absolutely forbids' the CIV
ing of cigarettes to boys. Now the fact
of the matter is that the age of be-
ginning the use of cigarettes has al
ready fallen from 22 to II. At present
the cigarette is one Of the worst out
laws or law breakers in the land for
it is unlawful to give them to boys
now. This proposed amendment will
simply make it possible for the Gig
arctic to be a far more serious men,
ace, and outlaw against society and
health. Civilizations most powerful
arguments will soon hurl the cigar
cite where the booze has gone.
Arguments just as fundamental as
the above should induce every 400
percent American" to vote NO four
times on the amendments proposed
for your decision on Mar. 16th.-J. N.
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