Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-03-18
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The press of the State State is re-
Quested to give circulation to the
following:
Every teacher is requested to read
g. copySof the State law concerning
temperance instruction in the schools.
A statement made a few days ago
by a prominent school official claimed
my attention. Hs said there were
about six thousand achers in South
Carolina, and about a thousand of
these were new teachers. TO these
young teachers as well as to older
ones we appeal for help.
The Christian Temperance Work
Iers have for several years been try
ing to bring to the notice of all
teachers the laws of South Carolina
with regard to scientific temperance
instruction in all schools that use
any public money.
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The law makes it the duty of
teachers to see that the proper tex
books on this vital subject be plas &.
in the hands of all pupils az 81
read, and those not able to RED Ali
be taught the same orally SIse
teachersS Go
Three books have bs2 recon-.
msnded by our State board, viz:
First book, Dur w sFful Bodies, ],
for very smy dFen, costing 90
cents. Sse9n 91k, Our Wonder
q kpdiea, l5r q more advanced
Ting 8S cents. Then for a
s. her class, Hutchinson's Phil
and Hygiene. costing a little
more.
These books are fine, and are we'll
worth the study of the teacher and
parent. The requirements of all
State laws relating to the effects of
alcohol and narcotics on the human
system have been fully met. Fa-
miliar language is used, facts pre-
sented in an attractive and simple
manner, so that the youngest pupil
can understand.
Some who feel the need and are
eager for immediate results, think il
is a slow way of working for the
temperance cause, but it certainly is
the surest.
If we would have temperance
workers and voters we, must educate
them. The children of to-day who
are reared in criminal neglect will
make the laws Of. tomorrow.
Too much stress cannot be given
the great need of early child-train-
ing in the school and home. Let us
look well to the rights of the child
rem to be faithfully warned in time
against the evils of the deadly ciga-
rette.
Dear teachers, let us take the little
boys not too young to learn these
bad habits, and not too young to
learn the simple truths taught in
these books, and lead them on, know
ing as the shepherds do, that where
the lambs go the focks will follow.
1t is not necessary for the pupils
to grow up for results, as the parents
learn from the children's books, and
teachers learn from instructing the
children.
The worst foe of the youth to-day
is the cigarette. 1t has been said
that this is pre&eminently why the
"reason why" age, and that it is ut
terly useless in these days of intelli-
gent thought to advance a theory
without giving bedrock reasons for
it. These little books teach the
children how and why tobacco in
jures the nerves, the heart, the di-
gestion, the brain, the will-power, and
the whole fabric of a growing boy.
Some one writes that if all of our
teachers would only conscientiously
teach what our State laws require.
soon we would have vast army of
workers which by their numbers
would make Napolean turn green
with envy,sor astonish Cromwell
by their zeal and devotion.
DIR. Bremen, of the hospital for the
insane, of st. Louis, says: aThere
is an alarming increase of juvenile
smokers and basing my assertion on
the experience gained in private
practice and at this institution for
the insane, | will broadly state that
the boy who smokes at seven will
drink whiskey at Ia, take morphine
at 70, and wind up with cocaine and
the rest of tho narcotics at 3O."
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