The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-30
BOYS AND CIGARETTES ARE POOR CHUMS TO APPLY TO-
 CIPHER FOR SUCCESS

Success What a world of meaning the one little word SUCCESS con- 1 tans! Our whole lives are based up on the success we make of them. II we gain success we gain everything. There is nothing more to hope for. But l to gain success often requires years of labor. years of failures and years of IdisappOintments, and at the beginning there are many obstacles 10 bar us from success. Many of these we can see ny opening our eyes and looking for them By looking for them, mean by taking the lives of successful men and women of the past and the present and analyZing their lives. In this way we find what made them successful; ]; we find what held them in check until they hecam scccessful Then when We have found these facts why not use them to our advantage? Why not pro fit bv the mistakes of others instead of going headlong into the very self same blunders? If we see q man try an experiment that proves injurious to him. then there is no use for Us to try the same experiment just to satisfy the curiosity, but we should go ahead and profit by his loss.
 There are two things that have caused millions to fail in reaching the goal they should have sought. These two are, Tobacco and Alcohol. We have prohibition for one of these, so why not have prohibition for the other? Tobacco is really the most dangerous of the two. For there are more people who use tobacco than there are people who use alcohol. But the two come hand-i hand in some respects. and hand-in-hand they should be forced to go There is a day coming when tobacco will he no more. There must be a time when it shall go. To advance civilization. tobacco must go. The success. the life of the white race as the superior race depends upon the eradication of the two evils, tobacco and alcohol. There k some benefit de- rived from the nse of alcohol. hut none whatever from the use of tobacco. Then why tolerate a thing that is causing the shortening of the lives of thousands of lives? It is not so much for the lives of the ones who use the vile stuff. but for the lives of the generation to come The man who is of children that are not weakened by it's influences. The young men of to- day owe it to the future generation D 1 keep themselves pure. for they are to be the fathers of the sons of tomorrow. l And if the sons of tomorrow are to be strong, healthy men, they must have healthy parents. One of the greatest mistakes. the governing body of the l United States have ever made was the | issuing of cigarettes to her soldiers while they were fighting her battles. Having cigarettes within easy reach of nervous and physical strain during the war caused many d mothers son to use those abnominable things to help him to forget their surroundings. Many boys learned to smoke then who never woald have smoked had not cigarettes been within easy reach during those nerve racking times.
 What is more disgusting than seeing small hoy smoking a thrown-away cigarette stub, or even one he has made. tor perhaps had some one else to make. not being able to make one ahnomiubale. To see their elders smoke naturally causes many youngsters to wish to' i'm tate them. For they think l il q smart" thing to smoke" When if they only knew the truth. they woHld think il one of the most ahnomi- nahle things they could dc.
 The smoking of cigarettes is the nest dangcous way in which person can use tobacco. except of course. chcw'n ng the stuff and swallowing il, which of course no person with an ordinary amount of sense would do The reason cigarettes are so dangerous is because of the fact that more of the poisonous nicotine is forced upon the system through cigarette smoke. By