The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-26
CONSTITUTION
ANTI-UGARETTE LEAGUE
Of the CITY of New York.

Of the City of New York.
Art. J. This association shall be
known as the Anti-Cigxrette League Of
- SCHOOL, No. -,of the city Of
New York
Art. H. The object of the associa-
ton shall be suppression of the habit
of cigarette smoking among the public
school boys and other boys of New
York, by personal example and any
other proper means.
Art. III. The officers Of the associa.
ton shall be a president, vice presi-
dent and secretary. There shall also
be a council of ten members all Of
whom shall be pupils attending the
said school
Art ~. The officers of the associa-,
ton shall be elected annually by ball
lot on the first Friday after the OPEN
ing of school in September of each
year.
Art. V. The council shalt consist of
the ten boys, members of the league,
who receive the largest number of
votes cast by the pupils Of the school
at the animal election
Art. VI. Every member'of the league
shall be entitled to wear'the button or
insignia designating membership SO
long as he maintains good faith and
keeps his agreement to abstain from
smoking cigarettes
Art. VII ANY member who vio-
lates his agreement and is reported
to the council, upon proof that there
has been such violation, the name Of
such offender shall be dropped from
the rolls and he shall be required to
surrender his button to the council
Art. VIII. Any member who has
been SO dropped may, after six
months, upon pJoof that is satisfac-
tory to the council that he has not
during such period smoked cigar
lettes, be reinstated in membership
and have his decoration restored to
him.
Art. X. Any member found guilty
of second offense by the council
shall no longer be eligible to member
ship while a member of the school.
Art. Y. The decoration or badge
shall become the property of the wear
er unless deprived of it by act of the
council, as heretofore prescribed.
Art. XI. Elections and meetings
shall not be held during school hours,
and the principal of the school shall be
present at all such meetings. A meet
ing of the league shall be held ON the
first Friday of every month of the
school year.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction in several of our states
have addressed the writer stating that
our New York plan was about to be
adopted and it is already in successful
operation in number Of the larger
cities of the country. Employers Of
boys readily recognize its value, and in
important instances have expressed a
desire to give preference to the wear
ers of our silver decorations when en-
gaging boys
There is law in this state. and in
many of the states, both against the
sale of cigarettes to boys under sixteen
as well as against the use Of the same
by boys under that age.
The newspapers recently contain a
dispatch from Itanca. n. Y, stating
that young lad about thirteen wears
of age is confined in the Tompkins
county Jail serving sentence of two
days imposed by the recorder for smok-
ing cigarettes More. however, is to
be expected from the boys themselves
in the efforts TO correct the evil, than
from the enforcement of the law. The
pedagogic value of this scheme is ap-
parent to all those having to do with
school affairs. The ethical value OF it
Is too apparent to seem to require any
plea in its behalf. The good that NAV
come from the enrolment of sixty
thousand boys for so good a cause in
our great city is incslculable. The
good that must follow certainly justi- |
ties our efforts.
CHARLES BULkELEY HUsBEIL.
Member board of education of New |
York.