¥ Here are the three officers of the United States submarine which snatched a cargo of gold, silver,
and securities from under the noses of the Japanese in the Philippines, safely transporting the
treasure from Corregidor to Hawai. They grew their beards on their eventful voyage to and from
Manila Bay. They are, left to right, Lieutenants Fred A. Gunn, Fred J. Harlfinger, and Harry L.
Woolworth. In building men for defense and victory, Uncle Sam desires the keenest intellect and the
best physique. Read what Dr. Kress has io say about this undertaking.
add URING the World Way the lead-
Le | ing tobacco companies, aided by
4 others, succeeded in fastening the
tobacco habit upon practically
every boy who went overseas, so that each
returning youth carried a pack of his
favorite brand of cigarettes. Possibly to
have lost the World War would have been
less serious to our nation than to have fixed
the cigarette habit upon millions of our
youth.
The traming of men for the future must
begin in the home and the school. A farmer,
being asked the secret of his success in pro-
ducing such a fine flock of sheep, replied:
“I take care of my lambs.” If we would
build capable young men for defense we
must look after our boys and girls.
Japan discovered this secret. She has
for years aimed to keep her children {rom
becoming cigarette addicts. In the year
1900 a bill was introduced into the House of
Representatives of Japan prohibiting the
use of tobacco in any form by young men
under twenty years of age. In introducing
this bill Hon. Mr. Nemote, member of the
House, said: “I would like briefly to give
you reasons why we have introduced this
bill. Recently even children in our public
schools have come to smoke cheap imported
cigarettes the consequence of which we
fear will bring our country down to the
miserable condition of countries like China
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and India, because tobacco, like opium, con-
tains narcotic poisons which benumb the
nervous system and weaken the mental power
of children addicted to smoking; and thus to
give point to our national policy, we must
strictly prohilat the smoking of tobacco by
children and young people. If we expect to
make this nation superior to the nations of
Europe and America, we must not allow our
youths in common schools, who are to become
the fathers and mothers of our country in the
near future, to smoke.”
Germany, too, in aiming to become a
world power 1s suppressing the use «f
alcohol and cigarettes, especially by the
youth. She, too, has an eye for the future.
I quote from the Washington Post
of March 12, 1939. “The Germans
under Hitler, almost from the begin-
ning of his rule, have inveighed against
the use of tobacco and spirits, particularly
by the young, and they have lately taken a
firm stand on the subject. Not only the
German youth of both sexes, but older Ger-
mans of both sexes are urged to eschew both
fumes and drams on the ground that such
are bad for them, as nobody can deny. . . .
Unquestionably, a nation which neither
drinks nor smokes must derive physical
benefits from this abstention.”
Some years ago, when smoking was con-
fined to men only, and when the cigarette
was unknown in America, Dr. Richardson,
BUILDING
MEN
FUR
HEFENGE
(Concluded)
By Daniel H. Bress, M. 1.
in an able work entitled ‘Diseases of
Modern Life,” said: “If a community of
youths of both sexes, whose progenitors
were finely formed and powerful, were
trained to the early practice of smoking,
and 1f marriage were confined to smokers,
an apparently new and physically inferior
race of men and women would be bred. Such
an experiment 1s impossible as we live; for
many of our fathers do not smoke, and
scarcely any of our mothers, and so chiefly
to the credit of our women be it said, the
integrity of the race is fairly preserved.”
— Pages 322-23,
Through the ingenious advertising
schemes of tobacco concerns innocent men
and women and benevolent and religious or-
ganizations are being enlisted in boosting
the tobacco trade. The campaign of flood-
ing the young men in training for defense
with cigarettes is purely a commercial game.
Tomatoes Every lay
By Waldemar Schweisheimer, M.LI.
BA OT only are certain foods popular
NZ at times, and unpopular at others,
ED SE] but even the shape of food is in-
== fluenced by fashion. Only a short
time ago tomato planters considered the
“beefsteak tomato,” weighing from two to
three pounds each, very large, very
smooth, a desirable goal. Today, however,
tomato consumers prefer decidedly smaller
tomatoes, about two and three-fourths
inches across, the better to grace the
modern salad plate,—and this resulted in a
decrease of planting oversized tomatoes.
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