Show cl i garet butts prove that times are good salesman judges nations economy by stubs LEXINGTON ILL you dont don t have to look any farther than the nearest gutter to see that tunes times are as good as they were in the me late 1920 s a tobacco salesman declared morns morris casey jones 44 said he had made a study of the public s smoking habits over the last 25 years you can pretty much judge the times by the length of butts people throw away he said he said the average length of the butt today was about one and one half inches long that a every bit as long as the boom days of the 20 s jones said during the depression years the streets were pretty well clear of butts he said A lot of smokers saved their butts and rolled them into new clarets he said some even smoked them in their pipes A great many people who were rolling their own during the lean years now have cigars in their vest pockets although he makes his living sell tag ing tobacco jones said he digap proved of women smokers butts with lipstick on them are much longer that the others he said probably because someone else paid for them |