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G I. R A K I K a s I ^f n e e c u l t ir r e 



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Special Notices by A. I. Root 



If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not 

 hear me. — Psalm 6i):18. 



On June 3 the Y. M... C. A. at its annual meeting 

 of the association's war council gave a list of the 

 articles sont to the soldiers, as I understand it, dur- 

 ing the past year. I clip from the CU'vetand Plain 

 Dealer one single paragraph as follows : 



" Reports submitted during the meeting showed 

 that 15,135,500 cigarets, 1,200,000 Testaments, 1,- 

 000,000 feet of motion picture films, 60,000,000 

 sheets of stationery, 2,040,000 packages of chewing 

 gum, 9,913,000 cigars, 30,000,000 cans of preserv- 

 ed fruit, and 21,000 phonograph records, together 

 with tons of baseballs, footballs, and other athletic 

 paraphernalia have been sent abroad." 



Well, for several days past there has been run- 

 ning thru my mind the statement above made; ap- 

 parently in the same breath, we are told of over 

 fifteen million cigarettes and over a million testa- 

 ments 1 It would look as if the newspaper reporter 

 or the speaker at that great war council saw nothing 

 incongi'uous or remarkable in linking cigarettes and 

 testaments together. One might also infer also, that 

 they consider cigarettes as the more important of 

 the two, because they are mentioned first and because 

 there are about fifteen times as many of them. Is 

 it possible that Dr. John R. Mott uttered no protest 

 when this statement was made in his hearing? Some 

 little time ago I asked Mr. Lanham, who is promi- 

 nent in Y. M. C. A. work in Ohio, if it was true 

 that the Y. M. C. A. was furnishing cigarettes to 

 soldiers. Some time later he replied that he had 

 looked into the matter and that the Y. M. C. A. did 

 not by any means indorse the including of cigarettes 

 among other things sent to the soldiers, but that a 

 few misinformed people had included them in the 

 packages. 



Elsewhere in this issue I suggested that the Lord 

 could not hear our prayers for peace while we as a 

 nation are cherishing or are in partnership with the 

 beer traffic. And once more I want to urge, that 

 God can not hear our prayers while we put cigar- 

 ettes and his sacred word in the same category. Our 

 nation and other nations just now are taking very 

 great pains to eliminate everything prejudicial to 

 the very best and highest physical welfare of the 



soldiers. How, then, is it possible that after our 

 diurches, our teachers, college professors, physicians, 

 together with such men as Thomas A. Edison, Henry 

 Ford, and the good people of the whole wide world, 

 offer their testimonies as to the harmfulness of the 

 cigarette habit, that there should be such awful and 

 criminal stupidity as to put cigarettes side by' side 

 with testaments ? or have we already given the 

 cigarette " the right of way?" May God help us 

 to learn the great lessons he is trying to teach us 

 by permitting this terrible war to go on month after 

 month and year after year. 



Later: In the Modern Merchant and Grocery 

 World I find a column or more of protest, winding 

 up with the following: "I'll tell you what let's do 

 after the war. Let's put everybody in jail that eats 

 candy, and teach 'em to smoke cigarettes in the 

 public schools. Girls, too, no reason why they should 

 be shut out of a bully good thing like cigarettes." 

 " The Strollkr." 



Still later. — Today is June 19, and I have just 

 learned that thousands of boys and young men are 

 learning to use cigarettes because of the war; and 

 not only that, but the use of cigarettes among school 

 girls is growing and spreading in some localities. 



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