G I. K A KINGS IN B E 



YEARS ngo, 

 wlioii t h e 



A 11 t i -Sa- 

 loon Jjeague was 

 first started, we 

 had a big con- 

 vention (I think 

 it was at Colum- 

 bus), and Lucy 

 T'age Gaston was 

 there and want- 

 <'il a place on 

 tlic program to 

 talk on cigar- 

 ettes. But the 

 managers decid- 

 ed — and perhaps 

 wisely — on ' ' one 

 thing at a time," especially when that one 

 thing was such a f<tiii>ni(h)iis task. From 

 that time to this, I have felt a good deal 

 that way about dealing with the tobacco 

 matter on these pages. The editor of the 

 No-ToMcco Journal (Butler, Ind.) recently 

 said, "We have no hope, at least just at 

 present, of outlawing tobacco from grown- 

 up manhood; but we do hope to get laws, 

 and enforce laws we already have, to keep 

 tobacco, and especially cigarettes, from our 

 immature boys and girls 



OUR HOMES 



A. I. ROOT 



For llioy sleop not, except tliey liavo done ini.s- 

 cliicif; nnd their sleep is taken ;iway, unless they 

 (Muse some to full. — Prov. 4:16. 



We have made a covenant with death, and with 

 hell are we at agreement. — Isa. 28:1.'5. 



f'ome unto nie, .t11 ye that lahor and nro lio:ivy 

 hidon, iiiul I will sive you rest. — Mult. 11:28. 



(• V LT V K K M.w, 1921 



Kvery I'eal lover 

 of humanity will 

 heartily wish China 

 success in throw- 

 ing off the tobacco 

 evil as she did the 

 opium traffic. 

 ****** 



When ii great 

 nation spends three 

 times as much to 

 tear down its boy- 

 hood and girlhood, 

 it.s manhood and 

 womanhood, as it 

 does to develop the 

 mind, the body, 

 and the soul of its 

 citizens, it is time 

 to call a halt. 



Well, my good friends, there is another 

 phase of the matter that seems to indicate 

 that "even grown-up manhood" needs pro- 

 tection. Tiv the No-Tobacco Journal, April 

 number, is an article, a part of which I give 

 below: 



s..vv.-i ToB.ACfo "cure" is fakr. 



The Tolwcco Leaf, issue, of March 10, 1921, had 

 the following: 



"The Federal Government is on tlie trail of the 

 t':iUe toliiiccd cure exploiters and alieady has one 

 of these nostrums up a tree. After an investiga- 

 tion which has been in progress since early last 



I take it you all know about the millions summer, W. H. Lamar, solicitor of the Post Office 



of starving Chinese, and what the good peo- 

 ple of America and the rest of the world 

 are doing to save them. Prom an article in 

 Good Ecalth (Battle Creek, Mich.) I clip 

 from the opening, and also a sentence from 

 the closing paragraph: 



CONCERNING TOBACCO. 



WILL. H. BROWN. 



Tobacco and Svffering China. 



The attitude of American tobacco dealers toward 

 starving, suffering China should bring about the 

 utter annihilation of the tobacco business, were 

 there not another reason in the world for its de- 

 struction. The situation is almost unbelievable. 

 American tobacco men have deliberately adopted the 

 .slogan, "A cigarette, in the mouth of every man. 

 woman, and child in China." Rev. R. R. Blews, 

 writing for the Free Methodist, Chicago, says this 

 slogan is posted all over China. 



The ghoulish selfishness of the act is seen in the 

 fact that 40,000,000 Chinese are facing starration, 

 according to Bishop Lewis, who has been traveling 

 over the famine-stricken districts of the country. 

 While the generous-hearted citizens of America are 

 raising money to aid this sorely afflicted people. 

 American tobacco intere.sts are planning to get 

 from them, for tobacco, money so much needed for 

 the bare necessities of existence. 



The seriousness of the situation has prompted 

 the Chinese Minister of the Interior to send forth 

 an edict, in which he says that unless restrictions 

 are imposed, tobacco will become a worse curse 

 than opium in former days. That China intends 

 later to totally prohibit the we«>d is indicated in the 

 following words : 



"It is hereby decided that before taking up any 

 measure for the total prohibition of its use, the fol- 

 lowing restrictions shall be placed upon the use of 

 tobacco." 



Thfi restrictions mentioned prohibit cigars and 

 cigarettes for any one under 18; for all military 

 or naval men ; for students in any Government 

 school or college. 



.Department, has recommended to the Postmaster 

 Gemeral the issuance of a fraud oi-der against Ed- 

 ward .T. Woods, Inc., promoters of the 'Woods Set 

 of Medicines.' This Woods outfit has bee.n one of 

 the most conspicuous oflFenders in the practice of 

 advertising its remedies by means of blood curdling 

 de.scriptions of the terrible effects of tobacco upon 

 the tobacco devotee..* 



■'.Solicifov Lamar's recommendation comprises 17 

 typewritten pages in which the fraudulent nature 

 of the 'tobacco cure' 'business and 'tobacco cure' 

 advertising is laid bare. His report concludes as 

 follows : 



" 'The evide.nce shows that none of these so-called 

 "treatnient.s" contain any drug oi- combination of 

 drugs which will create an "abhoirence" or "asso- 

 ciated distaste" for tobacco, and that the principal 

 feature of the "C" and "CCC Treatment" is the di- 

 rection to stop the use of tobacco. In effect, the pa- 

 tient pa> s his five dollars to be told to quit tobacco. 



" 'The postmaster at New York reports that this 

 loncern iecei\es on an average of 200 letters a 

 day.' " 



We do not know whether the Woods set of medi- 

 cines are a fraud or not, but it is very certain that 

 the tobacco trade will do everything possible to put 

 the tobacco habit cure people out of business. 



Even tho this particular tobacco habit cure, should 

 prove a fake, it does not follow that all are fakes 

 or that the tobacco habit is not a real disease for 

 which a cure is needed. The tobacco trade deliber- 

 ately carries the impression that all "tobacco cure 

 exploiters" are fakes. • 



It is certainly true that a very large ma.iorify 

 (if tobacco users find that they are unable to quit 

 of their own strength. It will be noted in the above 

 iiuotation that the. Woods Corporation "receives an 

 average of 200 letters a day." This is unmistak- 

 able evidence that a large number of tobacco users 

 realize the fact that they are in the clutches of a 

 silly, filthy, injurious habit and that they desire aid 

 in their efforts to get rid of it. 



*Their testimonials from patients were no doubt- 

 damaging to the *obacco trade. 



