The Prescott daily news., 1908-11-12
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A LITTLE LEAN, WHERE?

W utH W S N-SCOFC4 C" -N>NN 'N our sewer pipe we cannot fe t..l it is closed, knowing with every breath we are bringing in to the system noxious gases. or typhoid germs. Not only IS there danger to ourselves, our family but the bad a.Ii floats ov- CT into our ne.ghbOrs homes, thus poisoning the air they breathe and laying them liable also to disease and death.
 We should look carefully after these little things. 'Tis the lit t.e act several times repeated that makes habit and habit We al knows forms character.
 There is a little leak we would like to call attention to today. Small 'tiS true, only large en- ough for a package of cigaretts to slip through. We do not know on whose premises this .eak is to be found but we know it is here for the effect is seen on the street and in the school.
 In the museum of Fine Arts there is group of statuary, one of the wOrid's masterpieces; it represents three figures striv- ing with heroic, but unaval.mg effort to tear Themse.veS loose from tn entwining and constrict- ign fO, dis of two SerpentS. It IS horrible study of Trogan history and standing before 1t, one inNo.~ untariy shudders to think Of all it implies today.
 l am sure there is not a man among us who would lend a hand 10 pace one O. us O one oi our children in such a uation. but rather every man in town would rush to our help, would lose sleep spend money and work day and night to release anyone Of Us from such grave danger This is showing the natural good i'm pulse of mankind. But listen dear friends the cigarette even in broken doses soon finds a habit as binding and as deadly as the fab!ed Laocoon. You have only to stop a moment and think of what it's effect will be, tand not one of you our dear friends and neigh bOrs would for the small sum der ived from the sale of such help to thus enslave our children They have such confidence :n you, they think you are man and know all things and would not sell yourself or give to them anything that would hurt them. It needs only little thought along this line to make each of you hasten to stop this leak in your store, and thus hep us keep the cigar ette from getting the mastery of our inexperienced boys. Will you hep us? M B. w.
 A certain New York magistrate has said; Yesterday l had be- fore me thirty-five boy prisoners Thirty-three of them are con- folmad cigarette smokers. Today from a reliable source, I have made the gruesome discovery that two of the largest manufac- turers soak their product in a weak solution of opium. The fact that out Of thirty-f;ve prisoners thirtythree smoked cigarettes m!ght seem to indicate some dir ect connection between c;garet- tes and crime And when it is an- nounced on authority that the most cigarettes are doped with opium this connection is not hard to understand. Opium is like wbiskGy--.t creates an sncreaa- ing appetite that grown with what it feeds upon. A growing boy who let's tobacco and opium get a hold upon his senses is nev- CT long in coming under the dom- ination of whiskey too. Tobacco is the boys easiest and most dir ect road to whiskey When opium is added the young mans chances of resisting the combined forces and escaping physical. mental and mora. harm. !S slim indeed"