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houses, employing hundreds of boys, have issued this announcement,
or similar ones--_So impressed with the danger of Cigarette using
that we do not employ a Cigarette user._
Marshall Field, the Mammoth Universal Provider, gave similar
notice.
[Page 203--Smoking Land]
Montgomery, Ward and Co., the universal providers, say, "We will
not employ cigarette users."
"Morgan and Wright Tyre company, large employers, announce, "No
cigarettes can be smoked by our employees."
"At John Wanamakers.--The application blank to be filled out by
boys applying for a position reads: 'Do you use tobacco or
cigarettes?' A negative answer is expected, and is favourable to
their acceptance as employes."
"Heath and Milligan, Chicago, bar cigarette users."
"Carson, Pirie and Scott, Chicago, bar cigarette smokers as
employes."
Ayer's Sarsparilla Company, Lovell, employs hundreds of boys.
--"March 1, 1902--Believing that the smoking of cigarettes is
injurious to both mind and body, thereby unfitting young men for
their best work--therefore after this date we will not employ any
young man under twenty-one years of age who smokes cigarettes."
"I've got a boy for you, sir." Glad of it; who is he?" asked the
master workman of a large establishment. The man told the boy's
name and where he lived. "Don't want him," said the master workman,
"he has got a bad mark." "A bad mark, sir; what?" "I meet him every
day with a cigar in his mouth; I don't want smokers!"
"The Lehigh Valley Railroad bars cigarette smokers."
"The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad bars cigarette
smoking."
"The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad bars employes who
smoke cigarettes."
"The Central Railroad, Georgia, forbids cigarette smoking."
"The Union Pacific Railroad forbids cigarette smoking."
The following is a public notice: "The Western Union Telegraph
Company will discharge from their messenger service boys who
persist in smoking cigarettes."
A Telephone Company.--Order: "You are directed to serve notice
that the use of cigarettes after August 1 will be prohibited; and
you are further instructed to, in the future, refuse to employ
anyone who is addicted to the habit."--Leland Hume, Assistant
General Manager of the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company.
"In the United States Weather Bureau.--'Chief of United States
Weather Bureau, Willis M. Moore, has placed the ban on cigarettes
in this department of Government service'."
Smoking Does Some Good, but More Evil
Smoking soothes and comforts millions of the worried and the weary,
and brings much pleasure to the habitual smoker, but it always more
or less injures the health of the smoker and sometimes kills him. The
vast majority of the medical fraternity condemn smoking, especially
by the young.
Smoking injures multitudes of boys in many respects.
Smoking often leads to boys into bad company.
Smoking often makes them precocious, undutiful, impudent and
callous.
Smoking often ruins the health.
Smoking generally stunts their growth.
Smoking generally sallows their complexion.
Smoking often leads them to lying.
Smoking often leads them to stealing.
Smoking often leads them to drinking.
Smoking degenerates the boy physically, mentally, and morally.
Smokers cannot excel in athletic sports, such as boating, cricket,
cycling.
Smokers are always at the bottom of the class in school and
college, and backward at all kinds of study.
Excessive smoking causes mental and physical laziness in boys and
men.
The following organs, fluids, functions, etc., of the body,
especially of the young, are frequently more or less affected by the
use of tobacco:--The blood, the heart, the nerves, the brain, the
liver, the lungs, the stomach, the throat, the saliva, the taste, the
voice, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, the tongue, the
palate, the pancreas, the lips, the teeth, the bones, the skin.
Medical men and observing experts affirm many diseases are caused or
accelerated by the use of tobacco, among which are the following:--
Heart disease, consumption, cancer, ulceration, asthma, bronchitis,
neuralgia, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, indigestion, dysentery,
diarrhoea, constipation, sleeplessness, melancholia, delirium
tremens, insanity.
Smoking frequently leads to prolonged suffering.
Smoking often destroys the appetite.
Smoking sometimes weakens the will power.
Smoking sometimes leads to loss of memory.
Smoking often leads to despondency.
Smoking sometimes leads to suicide.
Smoking frequently leads to loss--loss by bad health and waste of
valuable time--direct loss in money required for other purposes,
and immense loss through reckless, thoughtless, or unfortunate
smokers being the cause of partial or total destruction by fire of
buildings, ships, factories, homesteads, crops, stores, and
property of many kinds; also loss of life and property by
explosions in mines, explosive factories, powder magazines,
explosive stores, etc.
Tobacco using is an unclean habit, and offensive habit, an
enslaving habit, often it is an intensely selfish habit.
Tobacco fumes, especially in small and poorly-ventilated houses or
rooms, injure or destroy the health of multitudes of wives, and
injure the health of multitudes of infants and children.
Tobacco using injures the unborn child by giving it a puny body and
an imperfect start in life.
Tobacco using is fast degenerating the race.
A third of the recruits for the Army are disqualified through
smoking.
The following Governments have passes laws against juvenile smoking:
Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, Canada, Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, the North West
Territories, Cape Colony, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia,
Tasmania, and about 48 of the States and Territories out of 53; and
so terrible and deplorable an effect has juvenile smoking upon the
race that most other Governments are considering the advisability of
passing laws against it.
The insidious influence of cigarette smoking by boys is shown in
these examples of handwriting, taken from a London Country Council
health report. The first was written by a boy when he was a victim of
the habit; the second is the same boy's writing when he had given it
up, ten months later.
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Narcotics and Intoxicants
In most parts of the word man has found out some way of stimulating,
soothing, or deadening his animal system by means of plants or drugs.
Hundreds of these stimulating, intoxicating, soothing, and stupefying
substances have been discovered and used in various countries, chief
amongst which may be mentioned--
Opium, Tobacco, Indian Hemp, Betel Nut, and Alcohol; and others are
used in a less degree, such as Coca, Kola Nut, Thorn Apple, Cocculus
Indicus, Intoxicating Toadstool, Deadly Nightshade, Henbane,
Rhododendron, Azalea, Emetic Holly, Bearded Darnel, etc. The first
five among those human pleasers and human destroyers are--
1. Alcohol, now drank in the shape of spirits, wine, beer, or some
other form probably by 500,000,000 persons.
2. Opium, smoked, inhaled, drank or swallowed by probably
100,000,000.
3. Tobacco, now smoked, chewed, and snuffed by probably 300,000,000
4. Haschish, made from Indian Hemp, now smoked, chewed, or
swallowed by probably 150,000,000.
5. Betel Nut, chewed probably by 50,000,000.
These five narcotising and intoxicating poisons are used, more or
less, by half the people in the world, giving some considerable
pleasure at times, but destroying, more or less, the health of all
who use them, and gradually stunting the form and otherwise
undermining the well-being of the entire human race.
Chemistry also produces many things which are taken in the same way
and for the same purpose, such as Laudanum, Morphia, Cocaine,
Chloral, Chloroform, Ether, &c., and many so-called patent medicines.
These all tend to form habits which soothe and please for a time, but
they all damage or destroy in the end.
The great bulk of easy-going, unreflecting people have no idea what
an amount of mischief and misery the habit of using these things
inflict upon poor humanity.
_Books show narcotics, toxicants,_
_Of each and every kind;_
_Insidious destroyers all,_
_Of body and of mind._
These four pages show at a glance the effects of the three most
fascinating and seductive Drugs in the world--Tobacco, Opium, and
Alcohol, and which physically, mentally, and morally injure or ruin
the greatest number of mankind.
First Shoeblack--What yer doin', Bill?
Second Shoeblack--Learnin' to Smoke.
The Drink Craving
Probably the best use a man can make of his leisure time is to read
good books and to follow their advice, and the worst use he can make
of it is to indulge in intoxicating liquor, and to go where that will
lead or take him.
It is said that "Dipsomania," "Alcoholism," or the
"Craving-for-Drink" disease can be cured in most persons by certain
remedies an proper management, and the time has come now when the
lovers of human progress everywhere feel that this fearful curse must
be grappled with, and, if possible, stamped out like the smallpox, or
any other terrible disease. One writer sums up the evils of drinking
as follows:--
"It injures the health.
It shortens life.
It originates hereditary disease.
It ruins the character of thousands.
It destroys the peace of families and of individuals.
It causes husbands and wives to neglect each other, their children,
and their homes.
It makes wives widows, and children orphans.
It bereaves parents of their children.
It reduces families to penury.
It hinders the amelioration of the poorer classes of society.
It makes time hard and trade bad.
It is a cause of quarrels, robberies, and murders.
It is a cause of suicide.
It fills our prisons.
It fills our poorhouses.
It fills our hospitals.
It fills our madhouses."
_Books, like strong drink, will drown a man's cares_
_But do not waste his wealth,_
_Books leave him better, drink the worse,_
_In character and health._
[Page 205--Pipes of the World]
Pipes of the World
Showing one of Cole's "Similarities of Mankind"
[Page 206--The Supreme Being]
GOD
Go to the top of a mountain so that you can see 50 miles in all
directions; you then observe a space 100 miles in diameter. Now the
_world_ contains 25,000 such areas as that. Our world is amazingly
vast, but our sun is a million times as large; yet we see rolling in
space thousands as large as our own, which probably have accompanying
worlds. And again, beyond this the telescope and astral-photography
reveal to us that _to the right, and to the left, before and behind,
above and below, and to every point of the heavens, and at immense
distances,_ millions and millions again of enormous stellar bodies
exist, roll, revolve and travel through space. Multitudes of these
suns and worlds around us in every direction are at such immense
distances that a person travelling with the speed of light, namely,
200,000 miles, or 8 times round our earth, in a _second_, world take