European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Sohir Doy april to this the Straw that broke the Camel s Back i a i by Dick West Washington up As vices go smoking is for most of the world a fairly modern foible dating Back Only to the 16thcentury. Evidence recently uncovered Ina prehistoric Cave in Wyoming shows however that american indians were smoking pipes 4,000 years  to the National Geo graphic society which helped finance the excavation experts Are trying to determine whether tobacco or some other Plant was burned in the pipes. Indians traditionally smoked red Willow Slippery Elm bark and Kinn Kinnick the bark an leaves of sumac not the Poison Ous kind or Dogwood the society says. After i read this item i lit Upa Cigar which smelled a bit like burning sumac and soon found myself musing Over a question the answer to which is lost for Ever in the mists of Antiquity namely How did those Indian happen to Start smoking in the first place smoking As you know is an acquired habit rather than a natural function. Someone had to be the first to try it and All sub sequent smokers have him to blame what could have caused him to take that fateful first puff the most logical supposition is that it came about  couple of indians were sitting around a campfire and one of them picked up a Slippery Elm Twig that was smouldering on one end. He put the other end in his Mouth to dislodge a piece of Buffalo meat that was stuck Between his Teeth and in doing so he chanced to inhale some of the smoke. Say he exclaimed Takin another drag that s what i Tafi springtime fresh i ? his curious behaviour was of served by his Friend who then pulled a sumac Branch from the fire stripped off a piece of bark and lighted it with a hot Coal  he sail sumac tastes Good like Kinnikin Nick  they puffed along in silence for seven nil utes then the first Fla fast turned to his Momand asked Why Don to some of that Dogwood a Luna a smokers to silly mall meter. I length does t ii service a e5all selective service and regulations. Among the specifies a asked for were names and addresses o conspirators who Are not a aortas defendants the overt j that the government claim constituted conspiracy detail meetings claimed to be part the conspiracy names of leg Grants allegedly counselled Jno the rules the five with breaking.  go.  the government ars h witnesses before the Tea. Ford wednesday denied the fondant permission to a positions abroad for their die against the charges