<TITLE>05. Par 41-49</TITLE>L-41   And we are living in a day of much pressure. Everywhere, everybody is so tense. And down the street with the hot rod, and they can't wait for the stop light, and, you know, and run over you. The... They're not going anywhere, not at all, not going. They're just as hard as they can race, but just racing towards Eternity, is all I know. And they... And you have to watch this way and that way. And--and--and then it's... I said, "There's just two classes of people live down there, and that's the quick and the dead. And them that ain't quick, die quick." And I--I... My! Dangerous to be safe, these days, it's hurrying, racing.

L-42   Temper? Oh, my! A poor little lady, yesterday, I... Brother Williams, I guess, wasn't noticing it. But we was going to make a turn. We had went to see his son, and he wasn't home. And we were making a turn. And some little lady, we have to allow for that, she made a kind of a little bobble. And, why, anybody ought to have, be gentleman enough to said, "It's all right, madam. Go ahead. It's all right."

L-43 But she happened to turn on the left, turn in front of some fellow, and, oh, my. His face was as red, and he had the window down, and just saying everything. Course, the little lady was just pushing up her hair and going on. She... See? And he stopped right in the street, was almost holding us up, you see, just to get to bawl her out.

L-44   Oh, it's a terrible time! Isn't it? Where we going? What's the hurry? We used to drive a old horse around the corner, take our time, lived a lot longer. And we're the same kind of people. And there we are, oh, everybody smoking a cigarette, just--just puffing it.

L-45 Down in Tucson, last week, I noticed the children standing. A little girl, pretty little thing, she was about ten years old. And she, her little cheeks, was all sunken in. And her little, dark hair, a lovely-looking little fellow. And she was standing around, smoking a cigarette before she went in. Now, that child probably had TB, maybe just a nervous wreck. Now, perhaps the reason she smoked, her mother smoked before her.

L-46   I was at the World's Fair this year, and I guess many of you were. And I enjoyed one thing, that was the Medical Room. And when they were there, proving what smoking does, they had this Yul Brynner, and--and you were there, noticed it. And they took a cigarette, and put it on a--a thing, and pulled the smoke out, and strowed it across a white piece of marble, and wiped that nicotine up with a piece of cotton, and put it on a rat's back. And in seven days there was so much cancer, the rat couldn't even walk, from the nicotine of one cigarette.

L-47 Then the doctor said, "You've heard people say..." And he turned it around, and put it under a tube, and let this smoke be pushed up through some kind of chemical, and there was a white streak. He said, "There is the cancer."

L-48 Then he said, "You've heard people say, 'I don't inhale it.'" So he pulled it in his mouth like that, puffed it in, and then put his mouth on this tube and blowed it up, and there was hardly any in it, at all. He said, "Where is the cancer? In my mouth. I swallow it down through my throat. Picks up, my throat, and goes into the stomach." And then that was the world's best, remember.
And then he goes ahead and says, "The people say, 'Use a filter tip.'"

L-49   You've heard that, "A thinking man's smoke," or some kind of a slogan. If the man thinks, at all, he won't smoke, at all. Uh-huh. It's not a thinking man; it's the unthinking man, would smoke one.


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