East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-28
NO NARCOTICS
IN THIS SCHOOL
WILL NJ. PETERSON DE-
FENDS MILMGAN COLLEGE,
Well Known Tennessee Institution
Forbids Use of Tobacco and Whis-
lIy-Athena Attorney Calamity De-
fcnds His Native State-Many
Prominent Southerners Were Edu-
Gated at Milligan College, Where
All Narcotics Are Forbidden.

Athena, Ore, Dec. .7.-(Editor
East Oregonian.) I'm your issue of
the 26th inst, you say: 80 far as
the East Oregonian can learn, the
only one of the leading colleges of the
world which actually forbIds the use
of tobacco among students is Booker
T. Washington's Industrial Institute
for Negroes, at Tuskegee, Ala"
Now I hope you will not consider
ME an offiCious intermeddler, nor
hasty critic. If recite to you, the fact
that there is at Millisan Tenn. one
of the cleanest little colleges in the
world. The name of this school is
Milligan college, For more than a
quarter OF a century, ]. Hopwood, the
president, has been successful in pro-
hibiting the use of tobacco in any
form among the student body.
Probably we can not say that Mil
ligan college is zone of the leading
colleges of the world" as its enroll
ment of students does not number
more than 500 or 400 annually, but
in the matter of prohibiting the use
of tobacco Intoxicating beverages and
other narcotics among the student
body I dare say it has not an equal
anywhere.
Many a father has had his heart
gladdened at the success of this col
iege in breaking his wayward boy of
the habit of tobacco and whisky
which has been persistently acquired
| in spite of. it seems. all efforts on his
part to teach him to the contrary, Nc
student can remain in Milligan col
lege if he perists in the use of to-
bacco or whisky.
Every moral and clean influence Ii
brought to bear by the faculty of thi
school to prevent the use of them, an'
where a failure to conquer is decided
rather than risk communicating in
fluence on the part of the refractor,
student, an expulsion immediatel
follows. I might say few student
are expelled as the good influence
so prevailing that 1t most general
conquers the hardest cases"
President Hopwood founded thi
college many years ago. 1t has al
ways been under the supervision c
the Christian church. He was n sol
der in the late civil war. His influ
ence has been felt all over the Unite
States. Robert L. Taylor, three time
governor of Tennessee, and who WI
succeed Senator E.. w. Carmack
the United states senate, was edit
Gated there: so was his brother, y
fred. once a member of congress.
Hon. James A. Tate, that fluer
prohibition orator, who is remember
ed by hundreds Of Umatilla count
3 people on account of his speeches
. PendIeton. Weston and other place
in the campaign of 1902, was once
member of the faculty of this co
> 1ege. was educated there. Walter \
Pierce remarked at Weston in lsV
= inst after Mr.. Tate had spoken, Uni
he was one of the finest speakers I
ever heard. -,
Hon. James ]. Britt of Ashevill
y. c., late republican candidate II
congress in the Tenth North Carroll.
district. one of the cleanest and brail
lest men in that state, was educate
there. -
Hundreds of others who have ris'
, to considerable popularity in the 7
, ligious, political and Industrial wor
, were educated under President Ho
woods tutorage. I am personally d
nuainted with hundreds of men al
women who have been educated
Milligan college and invariably IN
: stand by the teachings or their ain
= mater. Yet as far as notoriety go'
if Is not zone of the great colleges
but it certainly is one of the best
the world as far as its moral trai
ing goes. ~,
I hope you will pardon me for II
intrusion, but revering Milligan CO
l lege as 1 do, although l was never
| student there, I could not resist t
| temptation to inform you that the
7 is another college in Dixie" which