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V KENTUCKY NEWSCLIP P. 0. Box 158 MIDDLETOWN, KY. 40043 (Ky. Clipping Service) Floy& Co. Times Prestonsburg, Ky. Circulationc 4,524 A CIGARETTE.PACK 4" 'Ah1D A WHISKEY BOTTLE Take a cigarette pack and a wlhiskey bottle - both preferably empty. Read. The cigarette pack bears thiJ, statement: "Caution : Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to; your health." . The warning was placed there, because the law requires it. But what of the whiskey labei ? It tells the brand, proof, and, usually, add's some refer- ence to its "outstanding" quality„ me'llowness, bla- hia. One wonders why the whiskey bottle escaped the responsibility of stating what the contents might do for the consumer. Minor items such~ as beating your wife, starving your children, killing your best friend, committing blind, mass murder withyour automobile. The distiller might be per- mitted! to forget delirium tremens and other ail- irsents the drinker might incur, but it, would seem reasonable to think these other matters should be. listed for the protectiorc of alll concerned. Lawmakers have talked legislation which would ban cigarette advertising. WhiCh is, alli rightwith us. But what of alcoholic beverages-continue to try toi convince young America that the most beau- tiful women and the most handsome, -urbane men get that way by soaking themselves to the gills? We are fully aware of the fact that neither ad- vertising nor warnings nor all our inveig'hing will ,stop either cigarette smoking or drinking. It's. merely the reasoning or the motives hack of the handling of these products that inveigle our inter- e5t. . • But what can you expect, when a large percent- age of the parents i,n this country. introd'uce their Children to sopial drinking at an early age on the premise thatthey Gail -be taught to drink withi mod- eration-As IltNIe~ -1:aaies and "gerktlemen? This is little shoritgofr playing the Americanized form, of Russian roulette=y°m don't use a gun, just human beings, and leave it to blind chance as to •.;,-hichi will die an alcoholic. Or what can you expect when a heavy parb' of the population contends that alcoholic drinks should be made available to all, prettily packaged, legal- ized and dispensed to every Tom, Dick and Harry who may, or may not, beab his wife, starve his chsl- dren4 kill his best friend, and on down, down the 2ine ? I