Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — Businessman Says Cigarettes Are Menace to Young Men. [ARTICLE]

Businessman Says Cigarettes Are Menace to Young Men.

Clarence S. Funk, the new general manager of the Rumley company, of LaPorte, Ind., in an address the other day to a class of young men in applied Christianity, spoke thus to his youthful auditors concern.ing the habit of smoking cigarettes. Coming from a big businessman and former general manager of the International Harvester company, one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, any young man who reads what he says ought to give some deep reflection if he wishes to succeed in a business career and climb the ladder of success to a higher round. About the cigarette, Mr. Funk said: “No young man can be a success in the business world today who is addicted to the cigarette habit. No better way of insuring yourself defeat, lies before the young man today than to become a user of cigarettes. The day Is past when big employers will give serious consideration to the youth from whose lips a cigarette dangles listlessly, and who is continually asking for ‘the making.’ The big businessman of the present will not engage the young men to work for him whose Angers are stained with nicotine from cigarettes. Many bright young fellows who dress well and look clean and neat, apply for positions in big business houses, but the manager can easily see through their appearances and ascertain whether or not they are men of character. Character counts more than anything else in business as well as in other things.”