Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-08
NUBBINS
BY
BURRIS JENKINS

Representative Clare Booth Luc,
OF Connecticut advises all American
women 10 cut out ons cigarette :
day TO help in the general shortage
She sets an example by cutting on
all her morning cigarettes: mayb,
sh got the idea from cutting Out
morning drinks; nobody knows
about that.
One lady said the other day SHIT
would be less inclined to cut out one
cigarette just because il was Mrs
Luce who asked il of h'r; but that
seems catfish, don't you think so?
If one has contrary feelings like
that, he or she ought to cover them
up, especially as rgards such a
whirlwind as Representative Luce
Isn't il easy TO understand what
Mrs. Luce is doing? She is riding the
highest wave of publicity that any
woman could rid today. Not even
Mrs. Roosevelt could find a higher
one. And, when a woman with all
the talent for publicity that such
ladies inherently have, nobody ought
to say them nay. American women
ought TO say, Sur, Mrs. Luce, Wen
cut out a cigarette 4 day with YOU,
maybe two, and maybe all our morn
ing cigarettes"
There are some advocates of the
corn cob pipe FOR women. Nor of
them than you might believe. The
movement may be said to be going
strong. Or is il a repression instead
of NOV ment? Some of us can re-
mem5er when our grandmOthers
used to smoke little black corn
cob pipes with long pipe-stems; and
sometimes they didn't ev.n hide
behind the kitchen stove when they
did it, but just came boldly out in
the parlor or the sitting room whera
ever they happened to be. Some of
us used 10 even pulveriz' their to-
baccO for them and pick out the
stems. Yes, some of those elegant
old ladies of the long ago us ID TO
take snuff instead of smoke. They
seemed to have better time at
that. Hard TO say why, but maybe
ths inevitable sneeze was part of the
fun. We youngsters had the same
task of powdering the snuff and
filling the beautiful little snuff
boxes. And grandmother was none
the less impr ssive for her strange
wayS and manners.
Indeed. it is rumOred to-day that
many bulging shopping bag con-
tains along with the compact and
list of various other things that no
male pen would dare to set down,
a dainty little pipe with a curv- d
stem, whether meerschaum or briar,
in perfect harmony with all the
other feminine articles il k cps
company with.
After all, isn't il altogether a
question OF locale, time and place
and custom? There is Havana. for
instance. n yer having been there.
we cannot give eye witness; but
we've had the most indubitable
evidence that the daintie5t ladies in
Havana smoke big black cigars.
Certainly that's true in Denmark,
because we have seen il tim, and
again. We've sat down to dinner
with our host and hostess; and as
soon as he had taken his ap riff
he lit his own cigarette first and
then handed 4 modest sized cigar to
his wife. Same way after dinner and
all through the evening. He stuck
to cigarett s and she stuck to cigars.
For our part, ii seems inevitable
that the cigarette shortage all over
the world comes pr tty largely from
European men, and not from Euro
pean women.
The word morals" is identical
with the word custom; SO in the
last analysis we've got to 60 by the
habit and customs of nations and
peoples in making up our minds as
to what is right and wrong. The diff
ference between right and wrong
c.oes d eper than that, we fully
realize. Lincoln Steffins in his in
comparable autobiography tells us
that he spent three years in his
youth going to all the univ rsities
of Europe and trying to find out If
any professor really knew the diff
ference between right and wrong;
but h came away unsatistied, as
much lost i'm the darkness as ever
and he is not the only wise man
who has had similar experience.
Look at the entire German nation,
with plenty of wisdom or what has
passed for wisdom in previous CEN
turies. with inventiveness, with gen.
ius for philosophy and everybody
else's psychology kept their own.
They are the dumbest Erutes about
what's going on in their own heads.
They long ago threw away the last
shred of what we would call social
thics and are trying to promote
the Growth and development Of
cannon fodder, babies, babies ba-
bies, without any regard for the
happiness and welfare of the par
ants. 1t is going TO be the hardest
task i'm the world TO keep out of the
third world war. In fact, it is begin