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tobacco, Tombstones and PROFITS <SsPy %>%.'& * '• ■. / ia PtnTi W««kly », if, upon the torn hi ton «( everyone killed by It wara inacribwi, "Killed by Totatao"? You would know * lot |Ror* about H tban jrou do now, bat you would m*. know *11 btrtuM tobacco dnm mm than kill. It half-kilto. ft baa it* victims ill tha cafMeteriea afid'.nthe atreeta. ft ia bad eaou*h to ba daad, tat it to • noaatiuif if it to not hw to ba half daad la bf Tiabto ta alaap well with jfftotoaiy eat in two and vitality a* tha flnt ^raat tost, ft to wall within tha troth. Tou ara not parmittad ta know thai ft to prgfftahto a lowly to potoaa you aad milliona af othrr*. ao you arc poison ed. You wara only • boy whan you A iittla later you aaw adrerttoi ■ in eicara and awaking tobacco. New you ara praaaad tp mm tebaceo to aB Ma forma, except anuff Perbapa there arc too many falaa teeth in America inC and amokinf arTaet forth by tha trnata aa delightful, barmleaa It to. even declared that the uae of tobacco to beaafietol—that ft "aootbaa" tha aeaiwfc Chloroform aoothea the nervaa, too. A email bottle of ft will sooth Smoker* do not all drop dead around the cigar lighter* jn tobacco uteres. They co away and. year* later, die oi something else. Fran the tobacco truat'a point of view, that ia one of the finest thing* about tobacco. The victims do not die on the pwtm, even when sold the worse cigars. They go away, and when they die, die doctors certify that they died of some thing elae—pneumonia, heart disease, typhoid fever, or what not. In other words, tobacco kills indi rectly and escapes the blame. What killed General Grant? Why, of course you know—cancer. But what caused the cancer in his throat,? Do you know? Smoking caused it General Lee could not get Grant, bat tobacco got him. What killed President McKinley? An asaaasin's bullet, you say. Partly right and partly wrong. McKinley was shot, but his wound need not have probed fatal. Thousands of men, hart worse, have survived. Bat they had good hearts. When a great strain comes, strong hearts, are . necessary to bring the sufferers through alive. McKinley, when ha was born, had a strong heart, hot the tobacco habit got him and left Us heart muscles ,t soft and flabby. When McKinley had need of a strong heart he went down because he had nothing to keep him op. He had smoked up hia most vit al strength. > ■ Wood row Wilson when old waa seiz ed by an ailment that brought him al most to the point of death. For hoars he was unconscious and for waefcs Ms physicians could not say whether , he would live or die. He had need of a good'hesrt. In his hour of need ha had a good heart. If Mr. Wilson had been a smoker, Mr. Marshall nifrht have been President. Nk while, put* you tn • tr hf*m you. V jim mm iaa a f to t <>ppl* into Um i ■ woman hit carriage and Willi it would not aay the woman ■! »>»< tha building, weald you? T«t (4m a smoker diea of pneumonia th« doctor"* (loath certificate gtvra pneumonia and nbt tohaeoo aa tha cauae of death. And tha tombstone nun with hit chis al nay* nothing at all. What a shock people would get at (hay want through cemeteries and MW tombstones declaring tha fact that thi* man died of typhoid made fatal by a that tration nerve* to piece*, and another one cave ruined hia i Bat the troth will about tobacco ae long aa tka tobacco com pan lea are able to milliona of dollars to build mp maintain foulnesses with which poison the people for a profit. DM you ev%r think what would Iw eome of the tobacco habit if there were no profit in selling tobacco? How long would it last and how rapid ly would it spread ? Was anyone aver born with a taste for toboceo ? On the contrary, everyone is born with a taste against it—tobacco produces sickness the first few times H is used. Men are able to use tobacco only be cause of the remarkable power of the human body to adjust itself to an un favorable environment. The human body prefers the good and dislikes the bad, but if it is compelled to the bad will make the beat of it stick to life as long aa poaaMa. If there were no money in ing people with fcbacco, the tobacco habit would die out with the last of its present victims. No boy could bo» gin smoking because there would be no place where ha could buy tobacco. If there were no place in which to buy food the boy would not go without food. That shows the difference be tween useful necessities and poison ous things that enslave only to de stroy. We need food, we do not need tobacco. We use tobacco only becauae it is foisted upon each generation as opium was foisted upon the Chinese, and aa cigarettes are being foisted up on us now. Aii the tobacco interests become bet ter organized ft la increasingly diffi cult for each feneration to eacape. Even thirty year* ago, a cigar store was an ugly place, littered with cus pidors, dirty and unattractive. Bet ter brains in the tobacco business have changed thia. The cigar store ia at tractive now, even from afar. Ita windows are tastefully decorated with red, a primary color that appeals to the lowest order of itelligonee. In side, everything ia as clean and bright aa if the place were a jewelry store. Every possible appeal ia made to the eye. And, in addition, there are cer tificates with which, if one will smoke his head off, he may gat a beautiful glaaa fruit dish for kia grandmother or a collar button for himself. >. Billboard advertising, newspaper advertiaing, magazine advert iaing, aaarch every nook and cranny of the country for victims. In this way, mil lions upon millions of dollars are spent by the tobacco interests every year. It seems almost a*3f there ia no eacape for each new generation aa it comes along. 5>»o matter where a boy may be, tobacco advertising reaches him, ple*td« with him and urg es him to he a fool—to injure hia health, decrease hia happiness and shorten hia life that the tobacco inter ests may gathe- more millions. If 4he money that the American peo ple are vesting for tobacco were in , vestei in hoes**, ovary man and wo man could have, a home, free of debt before rea-bin? the age of fifty. If ft were imr*ated in farms, every one could have a farm. . If it were invaated in reclaiming daa erts that, with water, would be orange grvea, the present century wood see the and of meat of the daa <rrts. If ft ware inveated in atock fat wat er-power companiea honestly aodwian ly managed, tha 6 .w'v. % M i * ' > v # •' if!. Ufa*] 0^4 Ii lug diimry amokar who mm ifM" "U ►mm wp ahaat • Mb a day, i>l«l to 91.000 .vary tSnaa year*. V Mt inir, aflar thirty yaara, hMa Mm, ha wiH hava waatad 910JM. That to am than aMNgk la hny a dunnl >ama, a eood farm, a* to Ma Amart aa wwal thnaa and take ar whirl •round tha world. And. at that, the pwtnt laa la In -health and Hfa. Tha ha<d« of all happinrsa la health A aiek million alrt Is maek w»r» •" than a wall (tarbaga man. Hirknoax not only ntts off Kappinroi but hrinj* dtaromfnrt md pain. AI way • nimnmlwr that tha tandeiwy | of tobacco ia to doatroy | Don't be fooled by ncwapaper atoriax ' inspired hy the tobiwoo intareata about ' irentlnmen *94 yaara old who attri bute their multitude of ytari to tha oaa of tobacco. Whan whlakay^wllinf waa a legal met had of fatting a living you uaad to read the aame hind of atartaa about centanariana who had drank whiahay aiaca thay wane nine yaara aid. Thai* la no doubt that aome man have lived to ha very aid, notwith standing tha oaa of tobacco and whia kay. in believinc that it waa the tobacco or tM whiskey that helped them to live lone. Bmc ia one proof: Look for all thooe who ware boyhood draw of Han aged survivors of tobacco and whidicey and who, like then smok ed and drank. Where are they?. It helped to pot the finishing tsuches upon then. The one in ten mill km* or more who survivea and reaches a great are, notwithstanding the use of tobacco or whiskey, is the odd one who, be cause of some peculiarity fn his con dition. waa able to generate aa anti toxin that offset the poison of nico tine or alcohol. Each of na has the ability, to a greater or lesser iegr^n. to develop antitoxins to meet oar needs. Smallpox kills the Indian and treats the white man comparatively gently becauae it is a new disease to the Indiana, to meet what tfwy have not yet had time to generate proper antitoxins. The white man, on the other hand, has had time enough, smallpox is no new disease to him. He has been familiar with it for cen turies and. in the beginning, it hit him as hard as H now does the Indian. Make no iqistake. Tobacco ia a poison that would not be urged upon you if there were not a profit for oth ers in making you a victim. Within my" own circle of - friends it has killed. I never met a tobaeco-user who did not regret that he had formed the habit, but I never met a non-smoker who was sorry he did not smoke. Isn't that significant? If 4tobacco is such a fine thing, why rfon't Ha victims rejoice. Why do not m#n Uke Wood row Wilson hasten to acquire the tobacco habit? Think this over. Youth ia the dangerous age, aa far as tobacco is concerned. If one can reach the age of twenty-five without smoking, the tobacco trust will have difficulty in getting him. We are in the process of driving alcoholic beverages from the country. The death rate all over the country has taken a sharp drop to the lowest point ever reached. In my opinion the day ia not far distort when we shall outlaw tobacco as we have alco hol. I believe tobacco shortens mora lives and kilts more people than alco hol ever did, not becauae tobacco ia more deadly* becauaa it ia mora wide ly used than whiskey ever waa. We ahall have better health, more happineaa, longer life and more com forts whan we cease waating our moo-, ey for tobacco and whiakey. There are now plenty of persons who will hoot at this statement, but in a few decades there will ha a hund red millions or so who will hoot at the preaent hooters. Savtai Swtct Corn Sm<1 The bent way to secure home-frown sweat com seed, according to United States Department of Agriculture (pa cta! tlta, la to allow it to ripen on the plant, and, since a single ear will be sead enough far a small garden, it la quite practicable to da this. Select the bast and earliest oars by stripping to examine the gifcin and then carefully told I ad bald thaas to ptaaa by an| band or • strtog. Allow fotved him to land here at BrM p. m. mountain time. He had Mvwnu mora than ta» third* of the United Utataa. a total of 1.926 mile* and waa huiryinr to ward hi* pai at a apead of ITS miiea an hriur. after Imvln* thr*>e of hi* nMiiIm) Htnppinv plam behind him ill hie* raof with the nun. A tiny atream of oil apnrtinir from an almoxt iirrfaihle aperture in the oil cooler of the Cnrtiaa pursuit plane, neeeaaitated the cancellation of the flight. A ahnilar leak hah cauaed nearly an hour** delay at Cheyenne. Wyoming, hia third utoppinr place, ahortly aft er noon today, and Mamktn waa driving Wa motor at top apeed to ra cabi loet time. Far more than 200 miloa weatward from Cheyenne, the motor raced amoothly, hot at Rack Sprinr* the cooler began auddenly to teak. Maogfcan paeeed over the air mail field at 4:H p. m. determined to rontiirae to Saldm, Utah, tile next ^ A* the fomea from the eaeapin* o(l became atronger hmitrfr, he tsraad bark aad leaded at the almoet da aertod field A Mttf ■■■■Iniflnn by two pilots rnnvinced Maafrhsn that it wnM be impossible to mil San Prmeteeo, the western tormina* of Ma flight. W«i* dark Bitterly disappointed. whan rottiia wmni almost assured, Maughan made a cursory •lamination at the oil cooler and went to a Rode Sprint hotel for the .night, .... It waa IS hoars to the m inn to. when he landed at Sock Springs, from the time he took off at Mitchell field at 4:08 a. m. eaatorn standard time, this morning. The three stops which he made at Dayton. St." Joseph and at Cheyenne had consumed one hour and Si minutes. Officals of the United States air mall senriee here estimated that Mau ghan h*d made an average speed of about 1(6 miles an hoar. He was in the air IS hoars and nine' minutes * Until noon today the flight of Lieut, tenant Maughan apparently wax des-. tmed to be a brilliant success. At1 Cheyenne, however, on the western rim of the Rocky Mountains, the first element of uncertainty was thrown in to the race, when Maughan descend ed nauseated from the effect of oil fumes which he had inhaled, ae a re sult of the leak in the oil cooler. Dis appointed, Maughan stopped from the plane and laid down to recuperate while mechanics worked feverishly to repair the leak. > In 56 minutes the work was com pleted and Maughan, still slightly ill, resumed his seat in the cock-pit and struck out westward on the fourth lap of his journey, with rope rekind led by the belief that he still coo Id win out against encroaching darkness by a fast spurt to Saiduro, Utah, and San Francisco. Ha was within >46 miles of the end of his flight and leas than two hoars from 8alduro, the final stopping point before the last Up of his Journey when the new leak in the oil cooler forced him to descend. in* ingnt, several tunes cmmIM, owing: to Inclement weather or new ly discovered defect* in the oil feed line, was a renewal of the unsuccessful attempt which Maufhtn made July ». On that trip he was forced down at Avenue City, Mo., 10 mites from St Joseph, the terminal of the second lap of his flight. A cloned oil feed line caused temporary abandonment •f the plana for the flight. The trip was mads largely to de monstrate the feasibility of smi lag aerial war craft from one ceaat to the other in the United States aa a wartime maneuver. A bundle of newspaper, which was thrown into the cockpit of Maogkan's plane, just before ha took off at Mit chell field at 4:06 a. m., eastern stan dard time, this morning was undone and the papers eagerly soaaasd by ahr mail employees at Rocky Springs mm la ■»>>< to < melancholy end of the Democratic i there hi that the wrnrst is 7«t to i Htnlinir CmHtiimi in nest December will he utterly chaotic, with the lrft win* at the farm bloc greatly «trefi*then«><i, and with tha poaeihiUtien for miachief ao lone P°» aaeaed by LaPollette tndrfinitely ti plied. Flrat, they wit! of any a de«mi«t ration 1, and indifferent; ma aa. of radical liafcw will take a hand in tha they exiat today, tkay will |<t moat of the votoa in a povp of atataa. The will then be called open to that the oaadidacr of Mr. Harding for another term moat he looked upon aa aunifeatly inpoeai Already the situation far the Presi dent and his friends is doobty humil. is ting. The President, in sows of kis western spsschss, showed • disposi tion to lepudiaSs himself in the effort to placate the disaffected agiailaii vote, while the Republican candidate in Minnessota disavowed Mr. Harding and aO his works and sought to Bake it clear to the voters that it weald be rood business to elect Mm, as he would he in a position te extract mors money from the federal tieasui j for the fanners than his opponent. But because they did not trust the govern ment. That was what happened to Kellogg when be was defeated by Shipstead. Kellogg claimed to be the best sort of radical, bat it did not avail him anything because it was sus pected he would not always be ready to join LaPollette in making trouble. Just now the Democrats are re joicing because they are convinced thai they will find it posaible, by joining forces with first this and that bloc in Congress, te throw all ad ministration plans into hopeless con fusion bat some members of that par ty are wondering if there will be found sn element of danger in all this. A party of negr.tion and obstruc tion does not always show up to the best advantage, and as the radical wave has swept over some sections of the country, the Democratic party has almost ceased, to exist, ss a party. Some think it not unlikely that De mocratic strategy will in the end call1 'or the nomination of a conservative. V good many Republicans might be l-d to support a Democrat of the Undei vood type, for example, if the Republii sits should be forced, by the rising tide of radicaliam, to abandon Mr. Harding, Just as a great many Democrats supported Governor Preos the Republican candidate in Mixme sota, feeling, as they did, that this was the only safe and sane course open to them. ~ln • general way, toe result m Minnesota «M • voice of protest against conditions temporarily affect ing the farming interest adversely. At such times candidates who promise the most, regardless of whether then promises can he redeemed or not, are the beneficiaries in popular elections. The Democratic national commit tee, through Chairman Hull, char acterised the Minnesota result as a most humiliating defeat for the Bald ing administration and "an answer also to the recent journey of Chair man John T. Adams, of the Republi can national committee, to the middle west, where he admidst millions sf farmers ruined or mads bankrupt ■» prosperity as the Republican slogan." ■MM. __ jK third party overwhelming ifefnt nt the .M party » the ywiMiiitinl nnt fMr The firmm' wWch the Imliltaro k*«t relied heretofore (earns definitely last to tl»* Republican party. Any pr» graaaive Democratic candidate ftar President la certain to nrwp tha great northwest next year, judging by the vote in Minnesota on ; Whan Michigan and are aa strongly Sooth Carolina ia a Democratic defeat the Repoblican party aa thay did in the Coagnssional election to Michigan three weeks ago and in the i in of the Kapoblican party is at hand. The ] party haa only to ha pa rt ts be a ami ad tf overwhelming victory far its Preai dential candidate in 19S4. As for aa Da mot lata in tkt ranks, why ma mm jnat preparing to torn the winli ant. "It might ha said that the laanlt of the election in Mliuiaauta ia a m| emphatic vindication of of the Democratic senat date which stood at ail timaa in at real co-operation date for the senate, a very able Mr Carley, provided a place for I conservative Democratic votes to fa that rould not ha cast for Mr. John Mrm. Hardiag's Health Not With President Hinlinr About U. 8.8. Henderson, July 21—The hoar month's traveling. speaking and re crptionmg program of Pi Mid—I Harding since leaving Vuhinftn has not not brought any improvement to Mrs. Harding's condition, which alwayi hha keen more or less pre carious since her breakdown last Sep tember. She has rone through the moat strenuous month with rrmarkabta fortitude considering her Iimitoi strength, but now appears tired. Ma Harding did not miss a day's actiTi tles until she was forced to retire at Fairbanks, but since then she has been in seclusion, taking no part ia the entertainment planned at Preai dent Harding's many Alaskan stops. She has spent most of her time ia her cabin resting. The trip so far has not proved beneficial. Doubt is beginning to enter the minds of mem bers of the official party as to wheth er President Harding will find Jt ad visable to take the long sea trip through the Panama Canal to Porto Rico after his engagement at San Die go The Henderson sailed at a steady twelve knot gait acroaa the gulf of Alaaka today bound for Sitka, the teat Alaakan atop. The party is schedul ed to arrive at 8 o'clock Sunday mom. ing and may remain in Sitka until Monday morning. Turn* Ho«s in WWt Fields Chicago, July 11—Thousands of farmer* in the grain bait have. found • means of rsalitlng a dollar or mora a bushel on wheat, despite the (act that the (rain commands only 86«ei»ta in the market, it was announced ham tonight by the/ American Farm Bu reau federation. Reports from every part a# tha wheat eoontry, it was said, showed farmers to be .turning their hards of hoga into the wheat fialda to *11*111 the stock and simultaneously am tha cost of harvesting. With wheat at M cents, two canto lower than can, aad pork prices at their prsaasit level, tha fanner gets the dollar or mars br converting Ida wheat into povk, the : cnhlednoywLaereoeveryetoaaa an
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