UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JANUARY 22,1919.
Tobacco Funds not Conspiracy
Gifts of Cigarettes to Soldiers Justified By Extreme Emergency, Ministers Believe
It has been alleged that the whole agitation, which caused tobacco funds to be raised and cigarettes distributed freely to men in the service, was largely the result of propaganda on the part of the tobacco companies.
Ymk E. Parker, secretary of the
YM. M. C. A., when asked his opinion
paid
"While I have never been in favor of smoking cigarettes, I have always considered it a matter which could well be left over until after the war. We have several big fights on our hands, moral and otherwise, which seem to take up all our energy. The final to tobacco when these other things are settled, because it undoubtedly cuts down a man's efficiency.
"The boys themselves were perfectly willing to encourage the gift of cigarettes and raising of tobacco funds. I don't thing that there was any set propoganda on the part of the large tobacco companies, although there might have been."
While not denying the harmful effects of cigarettes, Dr. Franklin G Dill of Westminster Hall said he and his friends have been in a degree justified.
"Tobacco is a poison like opium," said Doctor Dill, "and ought to be used only under the perscription of a skilled physician. The only difference between them is that opium is quick in action; the nicotine in a cigarette is slow and accumulative in effect.
"On the other hand," Doctor Dill continued, "many boys over the training and particularly waiting for the 'zero hour' to 'go over the top' are under terrible nervous strain; so unuual and intense that if a physician had them in a hospital he would prescribe a sedative. That the cigarette helped many men to the control of 'raw nerves' may he keep true, and the gray glove away of cigarettes was justified. I wish I might speak from personal knowledge and observation but Uncle Sam didn't arrange to send me."
Doctor Dill referred to the Manual of Military Hygiene, written by Colonel Harvard, M. C., U. S. S., Ret, which says:
"From what has been said it is rational to conclude that the use of tobacco in any form by students in all educational establishments, including the Military and Naval Academies, should be absolutely prohibited. The development and strengthening of the degree of manly self-control necessary to comply with such prohibition would not be the least of the benefits conferred by such establishments."
Another Lawrence minister said that while he would not be the one to refuse a soldier cigarettes, if he desired them, he lamented the fact that cigarettes were distributed free to thousands of men who would not otherwise have formed the habit. The effect of anti-cigarette legislation and reform has been lost to a large extent, according to this minister, and he fears that a generation of cigarette smokers will be the result.
Charles E. Henry, a Y worker at the University until recently employed in Y work at Fort Leavenworth said:
"I licked one of my boys 16 years old and another 15 years old for that very thing--Cigarette smoking. I think it is a very, very bad habit. I never did approve of it and I do not now. I have never heard any complaints of the tobacco funds was due largely to the proprandia of tobacco companies."
Lieut. V. A. Hower, who is now enrolled in the University and who was an aviator over-seas for more than thirteen months, said:
"If it had not been for the gifts of cigarettes, in a large number of cases the men would not have gotten any of them at all.
"Tobacco could be purchased at Y canteens and later could be obtained from the quartermaster's department of the army. But usually cigarettes were given away by the Y. M. G. A., Red Cross, Knights of Columbus and
other agencies at times and places where the men would not otherwise have been supplied. For instance, cigarettes were distributed at stations when troops went through, at hospitals where the men were nearly ill or dead, and in prison trenches when it was impossible to do more than hand them out.
"Undoubtedly it was justified," continued Lieutenant Hower. "It was no time to quibble. If the fighting man desired cigarettes, they were given to him. If he desired chewing gum, he was given the chewing gum. So far as I know, the tobacco company is in business business firm would have done under the circumstances to encourage the sale of its product."
Chancellor in Conference On S.A.T.C. Expenditures
Chancellor Frank Strong was in Topeka yesterday conferring with business manager Kimball concerning his discussion with E. K. Hall, of Chicago, national business manager of the S. A. T. C. in connection with the reimbursement of the University for the expenditures on the S. A. T. C.
He also conferred with the board of Administration in regard to the reorganization of the municipal reference work.
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Track Men in Training for Coming Meets of Season
Date Not set for Annual K.U.— M. U. Meet in Convention Hall
The University track men are working hard in preparation for the coming meets of the season. Kansas will have an indoor meet with Missouri at Convention Hall in Kansas City but the date has not been determined according to Manager W. O. Hamilton.
Dorman O'Leary, one of the best quarter milers in the Valley, says he will not be out for track, this spring and has not worked out with the men since his return to Lawrence some time ago. Murphy is working with the men and getting into condition. He may enter the KC 40 at Staten Island, unattended. Murphy will get up an unattached relay team if possible.
"I will enrol in the University and start to school if Welch gets out of the army and returns in time for track. I would then organize a relay team with Haddock, Welch, O'Leary and myself. I have taken courses at the university but two years and have another year of competition," said Murphy,
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Wherever there are as many as 500 reasonably stationary soldiers, sailors and marines at base camps, ports, or with the army of occupation, there be educational courses given by the Y. M. C. A. to those who are to be moved in a few weeks there will be short courses but there will be something to interest every one. Boredom and inactivity are the greatest trials of the soldiers now, and the Y. M. C. A. will offer a counteractive force as attractive as it will be useful.
One of my good friends said to me the other day, when I had been talking about what might happen in the years just ahead of us, "Sanderson, you talk like the advance agent of a cyclone." I jocelyn repeated the remark to a friend who has gone to live for a year in the heart of the East Side, New York, just to be at the center of the unrest in America. Said he, "The cyclone is already here." Is your storm-cellar in good repair?
Students Neglects to Pay War Work Fund Pledge
There is considerable money yet unpaid from the War Work Fund pledges. G. O. Foster is the treasurer and all payments should be given to him at once. If there are any men who were members of the S. A. T. C. who for some reason at this time are unable to pay their pledges or even part of it, they should see Frank Parker, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. He will make any adjustments necessary. As it is now the pledges are binding obligations and should be looked after as soon as possible.
ROSS W. SANDERSON,
Pastor of Plymouth.
The University of Montvidejo in Uruguay, the leading American University, is to include the Bible in its program of studies. The University of Kansas at Lawrence, the leading higher educational institution of a great Christian commonwealth, omits the Bible, The Religion of Israel, Christianity and all other dangerous subjects from its curriculum. Why?
Please don't forget Professor Mitchell's Sunday School Class. It is just getting nicely under way. You will enjoy it. At ten Sunday morning in the upper room just to the rear of the gallery of Plymouth auditorium.
All Congregational students and their friends are cordially invited to Plymouth Parish House Friday evening of this week. Please come equipped with a sweet disposition and a determination to have a good time!
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Marguerite Clark In "Little Miss Hoover"
Lieut. P. K. Bum, graduate of School of Engineering '14 is back from France. Lieutenant Bum offers courses in the use of the pick and shovel.
He entered service as a private and was later given his commission as a Second Lieutenant. His last work was in map making. The only hard thing he did was to write scripts for "Willie," when he had no weapon but a pencil with which to fire back.
While in France he came "Toney"
James, George Fair, "Rolo" Brown,
e17, and "Andy" Groff. James, a
former football star, had been quite
Lieutenant Bunn Returns
To University from France
shot up, but was getting along O. K. Brown arrived in France a few days before the armistice was signed.
"Every man an "I" man," is the slogan adopted by the department of physical training at the Illinois university in the new plan of awarding honors.
Student directories at the University of Nebraska were out last week.
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