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Cartoon Viewpoint of the Week ’The design is modern, the tailoring superb, and the fabric will last!’ PRESIDENTIAL Vy"- '* :* m Avf) ( ■HI !fe stte Smoker's n Anniversity I JOHN J. SYNONI When I was six years of age, I used to hide away, crawl un der our porch steps, to smoke cigarettes. And I have been smoking them ever since; this is my golden an niversary. Moreover, the Good Lord willing, I shall go on smok ing them another 50 years. Just cantankerous, I guess. At six, seven, and eight, along about there, I was told smok ing would stunt my growth; I’m six-feet-four. Then, when I got to playing baseball, I was told smoking would cut my wind, whatever that -meant. I didn’t believe that either though I did quit — during the season — be cause I had pledged my word I would. But I was soon back at it, when the summer closed, when I put my spikes away. And as anyone who has heard one of my intemperate orations can at test, incessant smoking of dg The ■'f** i;; 5;: ■ ■ SSL Known For Good Taste ,ji : M.ifiiimiiiiirtMiijHinriirifTii, * ' I* „ IS -X* - '.UtrA SSSSaiiiS arettes has had no appreciably adverse effect on my lung pow er. Now that I am grown old and gray — aye — they tell me; cigarettes will give me lung cancer. Perhaps. But you may bet I will go on smoking them. I have never yet stopped doing any thing I wanted to do because I was told it was “bad” for me. True, I stopped drinking booze 25 years ago. But it was because drinking booze — as I drank booze — was wrong. I didn’t needy anybody to tell me that. The effects — homelessness — spoke with eloquence enough. So, I quit. But not because of the bluenoses and their waggl ing fingers. The wonder is that, with all their hissing good inten tions, I did quit. * * * What of smoking? Beyond dis coloring my tushes, I can detect no ill effects from the moun tains of cigarettes I have smok '~ ■ "immiimrjt Frosty Morn Meats Inc. "Helping to build a better Livestock ed, do smoke; 50 a day. True, my left big toe went numb, some time back, and that caused concern, got me to think ing. And a good thing, too; I changed shoe size, as a result of cogitation, and all came right with me underpinnings. And riddle me this: Where is all this anti-smoking smoke com ing from, and why? Who or what is inspiring attack on the indus try that is of such prime econo mic importance to so many Southern people? Eh? The pack age of cigarettes beside me car ries this notice: “Caution: Cig arette Smoking May Be Hazard ous To Your Health.” Yes, sir.And so may crossing ing the street be hazardous to my health. Take it another way: There is a big, fat passel of booze bottles yonder in the cab inet, set there for visiting fools. There is no such “caution” no tice on_any_of_them. I Why isn’t there? Rather, why are cigarettes singled out as be ing hazardous? Why not belch ing factory chimneys; why don’t smoking chimneys have a lab el plastered on them? Why not woman as hazards, if you want to get down to cases. You say the answer is rate of incidence among smokers vs. incidence rate of non-smokers? And I say tommyrot. Perhaps you didn’t see the results of the recent twins stu dy. If not let me tell you about it: There was no evidence to indicate that the twin who smok ed was any more liable to lung cancer than the twin who did no smoke. Cigarettes: Pish and tush. It’s the booze and the women, boy, who should be labeled. Them and the folks who run around telling their betters what they should and should not do. / All my butts to them. ! JARMAN FUNERAL HOME . . . Where Your Trust Is Sacred And Your Wishes Cared For . . . Dial JA 3-5143 Kinston, N. C Farm and Home Requirements Of Petroleum Products -o HODGES-BELL OIL CO., INC. Phono JA 3-2338 P. O. Box 666 U. S. 70 East of Kinston, N. C. Let Us Supply The Materials You Need to 131 S. Rejinish Furniture MINWAX VARNISHES ENAMELS PAINT REMOVERS CASTERS Cloc* 1 p.m. Saturdays ' • ' ' IwNpP Diractly in Front of Courtheusa mmmm
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