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Volume II. Milledgeville, Ga., Saturday, April 8, 1916. Number 52
TOBACCO IS IN MAN DESTRUCTION
Then Why Not Reverse and All
That Are Human Aid in
The Destruction of To
bacco and Its Evil.
There are many cases of boys
whose use of tobacco has stopped
their physical growth and there
are thousands more whose minds
are dwarfed, and all penal institu
tions for boys and young men are
filled with youths whose bodies are
from.two to ten \ears older than
their minds.
Tobacco effects every part of the
body. It prevents the proper digest
ion of food , which is necessary to
build bone and muscles Its poison
gets into the blood and shrivels up
the little blood corpuscles,just as al
cohol does, so they cannot convey
oxygen and nourishment to tne
different parts of the body, nor'
carry out the poisonous Waste
matter.. It paralyzes the motor
nerves so that they cannot properly
control the circulation of the blood
nor be steady. It acts upon the
neives of the heart, giving it a
disease called “tobacco heart.”
It is stated that one fifth of all
the young men examined for the
United States navy fail to pass be
cause of heart disease caused by the
use of tobacco.
A fine looking gentleman, who
appeared to be in perfect health,
said to a doctor: “I have smoked
twenty cigars today.”
The doctor asked, “Do you not
feel some ill effects from it ?”
. “No, sir, not a particle. I feel
splendid. I am as sound as a dol
lar.”
The doctor took the man’s pulse
and said : “Your heart is beating
108 times a minute and that is
thirty six beats more than it ought
to make in one minute. At that
rate it would beat 1.190 too many
times in an hour. The heart can not
stand that kind of work many
years •”
Tobacco relaxes and weakens the
muscles. That is why its victims
are led to believe that it is so sooth
ing, when it is simply taking away
strength and endurance. By inves
tigation it is found that the stu
dents in our great institutions of
learning who do not use tobacco
develope, during the four years of
college life more weight, height
and chest girth and lung capicity
than those who are occasional or
habitual tobacco users, and it is a
well known fact that prizefighters,
pedestrians, oarsmen, billiard cham
pions, etc., are not allowed by
their trainers to use tobacco, be
cause of »ts effect upon the nerves
and muscles. It stupefies the brain,
impairs the memory and weakens
the mind—the will power. This is
enough. How can any boy expect
to grow and become a strong, reso
lute man, as every boy desires to be,
while he is determined to smoke or
chew tobacco?
An English journal says: “If
there is a vice more prostrating to
the mind and body, and more crip
pling to the man’s spiritual nature,
than tobacco, we have yet to be
convinced of it.”
A medical society in Paris examin
ed thirty-eight boys of all classes of
society and of average health, who
had been using tobacco for periods
ranging from two months to two or
more years, and found that twenty-
seven of them showed severe injury
to the constitution and insufficient
growth; thirty-two showed irregu-
larityvof heart action, disordered
stomach coughs, and craving for al
coholic stimulants; thirteen had in-
termittency of pulse, and one had
consumption. After they aban
doned the use of tobacco one-half
were free from all symptons in six
months, and the remainder had re
covered by the end of the year.
—The Shield.
THE MAN ENGINE MUST COOL OFF
You Should not Be Thinking of
Life’s Problems and Business
Incessantly. You Must
Rest Your Mind.
An engine can not be run con
tinuously. It must be stopped re
gularly to be oiled and cleaned. It
must be given an occasional rest so
that its bearings do not become
heated through constant friction,
thus wearing out entirely. Unless
an engine gets its rest and unless it
is cleaned and oiled, the engine
will break down entirely. It will
cither have to undergo repairs or
be thrown upon the scrap heap
The same thing applies to the
human engine, both physically and
mentally. To preserve one’s health,
a man must rest regularly. He can
not work all day long and all night
long. He must sjop. He must end
the friction upon his muscles. He
must “icool off” just as the engine
and then he will be ready to “run”
again. And the brain, too, is like
an engine. It is the great “think
ing” engine that produces
“thoughts” and these thoughts are
power that makes the world move
on and on.
You can’t force the mind to pro
duce “power” all day long and all
night long. You can not be “think
ing” constantly upon the problems
of life and business. You must
rest your mind. You must stop
thinking about serious matters ever-
y once in a while and give your
brain a rest. The friction must
come to a.i end. The brain engine
must be allowed to “cool off.” It
must recuperate. Otherwise, like
the iron engine, it will give ot.t en
tirely and will either have to be re
paired through a long course of
treatment in some sanatorium for
“nervous breakdowns,” or go to
the “scrap heap,” namely, the in
sane asylum.
The question of work, therefore,
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