The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-01-24
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY "a, 1894.
CIGARETTES.
The President of StanfordIUniversity Talks
to the Boys Who Smoke Cigarettes.

10 tne Dogs VINO omohe Olgarebbes'
David Starr Jordan OF San Francisco
wrote the following sensible article for
the Call, which paper is untiring i'll its
efforts to stop cigarette smoking among
boys who were born for better things:
There is, as we know, a false notion
OF manliness current among boys-a
notion that manhood lies in the vices
and designations oil a man rather than in
the development of a mans strength.
BY carrying out this idea, in one way or
another, the development of true man
hood is often rendered impossible.
AS a college teacher, my experience
with boys who have formed the cigar
cite habit is somewhat limited. 1t, now
ever, confirms me in the opinion that
such boys are like wormy apples; they
drop long before harvest time. Very few
OF them ever advance far beyond the
first year. They rarely make failures in
after life, because they do not have any
after life. The boy who begins cigarette
smoking before his fifteenth year never
enters the life OF the world. When the
other boys are taking hold of the worlds
work he is concerned with the sexton
and undertaken.
There is one grim argument to be
made for the use of cigarettes by boys.
1t helps in the survival of the fittest. The
manly boy does not take to such things.
He has life in him, plays football, steals
watermellons, goes swimming On Sum
days, hunts ducks-does anything but
deaden himself with narcotics.
The cigarette boy does none OF these
things. lie becomes i'll when work is
is laid upon him. His friends are solic-
itous because he studies so hard and
looks SO pale. lie is Withdrawn from
school, and after a few years of life with
shattered nerves he passes away, leaving
the place he might have filled to the
''deep-lunged children of the father
land"
But all vice is corrosive and spreads
from the rotten to the sound. Every
year men whose lives are worth saving
are wrecked through foolish notions OF
manliness caught from youthful associ-
ates. 1t is bad morals and bad econo-
mics to permit this waste.
Parents, by individual discrimination
and careful watching, often arm their
boy 8 against the insidious habit. Some
children can be appealed to on their
ambitious side, others on their love of
praise, cleanliness, strength, health or
even business instinct. One father sends
the following instructive letter as to how
he stopped his boy from cigarette smok-
ing:
"When in his sixteenth year my son
would occasionally lring home from
school an odor of cigarettes. Realizing
how %injuaious it would be, | remonstrat-
ed with him. He said that it was 1.-The
the thing to do ii you want to be in
with the boys" | proposed that in adj
dition to his weekly allowance of 80
cents | would add 8 cents for every day
that he did not use tobacco in any torm.
''rhis contract was faithfully carried
out and at the expiration of the year
he had just $18 % saved, besides having
had more fun with mis- pocket money
than in smoking cigarettes. A new con
tract was made for the second year at a
double rate, with the same happy
results.
"For the third year, entering my bus
mess at a reasonable salary, he wanted
the contract renewed but wal informed
that my cigars were always at his dis
posal. am not aware that he used any
of them before he Was 81"