The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-12

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CICare.te-smoking has reached such
mitch in this country that 1t is alarming
all those who have the best interests of
our children at heart. This vice is Pc
culiarIy in sidfous and especially attrac-
tive to young boys. 1t leads to physical,
mental and moral depraVity. 1t en-
chains and tyrannizes over the viii, con-
vertinG tho prosPectiVely strong and
healthy citizen into weak and etiOlatsd
criminal. II is the enemy Of the state
the city, the family and every Individual
member OF each.
The boys know something of this
themselves and only require a leader TO
array themselves against this enemy.
s'Ths CaIi'' SAYS to the boys: "Orgsnize
againRt this habit. In union is strength
Enroll your names; pledge yourselves
to resist the little paper tube with its
drug ed contents. In proportion as You
are stanch soldiers in the cause will you
benefit your own health, that of the city
and of the State"
To-day THE CALL inaugurates a crusade
in the public schools against cigarette
smoking by boys under p years OF age.
it is hardly necessary to refer to the cry
ing necessity of such a movement. Every
principal or teacher is lifting his voice
against it. Every mother knows its terri
BILE danger for her boy. The public streets
are flied with urchns putting at the
deadly 'cigareet," as this form OF drugged
tobacco is yuigaTly called.
80, Into
ports of disease and general physical de-
cadence traceable to cigarettes. In New
York $4,000 pupils in the public schools
have joined a similar league to the one
proposed by THE CALL to-day.
Boys, do YOU want to be short in stature.
bent of back, subject to the blues. uncer-
tain of memory and generally mediocre or
of no account? II not. join The CALLS
Boys Anti-CigaTette League" and fight
this devilish enemy Of true manliness.
Parents. do you wish to see your boy de-
generate from a bright, sunny. ambitious
chip Of the old block into a worn, selfish
voluptuary with no principle but self
gratifcatonP II not, see that he IS not
almost unc0usclOusy ensnaTed by the
cigar ette-habit II is lie or death mat
ter. Let him join The CALLS Boys Anti
Cigarette League" while he i young, and
around his young life.
Men and women, do you want to help
cur boys? If YOU DO, help Tie CALLS
boys Anti Cigarette League" Send US
comments and suggestions, offer badges.
buttons or other links, encourage the boys
10 form q strong army. At least speak
well OF it. not "damnlng with faint praise"
but giving q little thought for the sake of
young California.
The boys running around go carelessly
- Aory M CT too-
educators, our citizens. Can we afford to
have them deteTiOrate into pale-faced,
pigeOn-bTeaSted,' putty-mnded men? DO
we watch our boy as carefully as we
would even a valuable horse? The boy
wrongly thinks this cigaTeJte-smoking
manly" amusement. The doctors say
it is tending to make him an idiot and
physical wreck. The penitentiaries are
stocked with men who smoke "cgareets."
Ask any police officer what opinion he has
of the habitual smoker Of these degrading
cylinders. Can we, as men and women,
rest idly without raising our voice and
lifting our hand in any plan that offers to
arrest a single boy in his downward path
toward this Inferno?
Some bows do not see the terrors of the
cigarette fiend' sInTeTno. FGcilis descensus
Averni. 1t is pleasantly yelled in wreRths
of pungent smoke. That is one reason
that THE CALLS Boys ADti-CigaTette
League" is offered them. 1t is a hating
stage where the thOughtless and the
thoughtful can pause and look around
them. 1t is a healthy breeze that may
bloy away the will-o' -the-wisps and decep-
tive smOke-vapoTs. Let US help the boys
10 realize the truth; then if they prefer
false enjoyment, we shall at least have
given them a chance to be true men.
On Mondays next every boy in the
public schools of San Francisco will be
given an opportunity to sign a pledge
TO abstain from cigarette-smOking until
fuence TO suppress cigarette smoking
among minors" That is the whole of the
simple promise-placing every boy on his
honor to resist the foe.
Watch the progress Of the anti-cigarette
crusade. HE CALL will supply news Of
its progress. The names of ali boys join
ing the league will be published. ANY
class or classes may organize corps of
twenty-five boys and over TO have a presi-
dent and secretary and to be called by
some appropriate California name. De-
Velopments will suggest themselves.
The School Department is heartily in
favor of the movement, as was shown by
its resolution last Wednesday night. The
principals will promote it by every means
in their power. One principal, Miss NJ.
NJ. Murphy of the Jefferson Primary
5 chOOl, has kindly consented to be tempo
rary grand secretary of the league. She
will help the boys to organize a CORDS at
her school on Monday next and will be
glad TO exchange views with others on the
subject
New York has league of 5000. How
many Will our league have?