The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-12-24
YOUNG MEMS BUSINESS
CLUB COMES INTO BEING
piany Youths Sign Pledge TO Abstain
From Cigarettes and Tobacco
In General.

ferday afternoon In tho mass meet
Eng IN the First baptist church and
signed che antl-tobaeco pledge.
The meeting was in charge Of DIR.
Dora Martin, tho antI-cIgarette mis-
Sionary. Or. Martin told OF her work
with the Amarillo schools, Of the
rare promise for tho Young Mems
Business club IN this city, and the
splendid outlook for a higher and
grander moral plane among the boys.
Dr. Martin was at her best In the
meeting, and made one Of the most
helpful addresses from the boy
standpoint perhaps ever heard In this
city.
W. II. Fuquua, ~ chairman Of the
executive committee, outlined the
work incident 10 the appointment OF
the committee OF which he II chair.
man. II was stated that each OF the
churches will have u man In the work
and that under direction Of this COM
mittec the boys will be enabled to
inaugurate a system OF self-govcrn-
ment that argues well for the adj
vance OF all the faculties OF the
mind.
Mr.. Fuqua called attention to the
fact that tho boys OF today are the
men OF affairs tomorrow; that the
coming man OF affairs needs clear
brain with all OF his senses alert.
In face of the fact that competition
will be among men OF that character.
The boy who blows a large amount
,f his mentality through his nose and
mouth In the form OF foul cigarette
moke win scarcely be the one that
men will seek to put into the fore
ront OF activity and 10 manage var
GUS Industrial and political cam
)aigns. II IL the man with the cor
sect habits that Is and will be in
iomand.
Latcr in the meeting Mr. Fuqua
aih u love Texas, love her his
DRY. her boys and her girls, /
,yc her institutions and her laws.
I'M 80 much IN love with Texas, with
amarillo especially, that | expect to
continue TO live here 10 die here,
end, lastly to be buried here !
em, as a matter of fact, afraid to
,sayo Texas. am afraid that some
hing good will come and will not
ID 10 on Il The most OF tho good
things come from Texas, and | am
sorry 10 say some OF the bad ones
oklahoma complains that Texas is
furnishing her with cigarettes,
Rcbukes Fasteners.
Mr. Fuqua told of having been on
train a few days since, attached
TO which was a magnificent Pullman
car carrying a party OF millionaire
mine owners en- route TO the south
west to inspect their properties. He
reclted how when the Texas line had
been almost reached, the conductor
came through and apologized to his
distinguished passengers. telling
them that they would not be permit
ted to drink liquor, nor play cards
while In Texas,
Mr. Fuuua then told OF the anger
engendered by reason OF this an
pouncement by the conductor. He
ttated, Incidentally, that he had al
ways made II a rule to stay out OF
conversations that were not address
ed TO him, but that finally the cpl
!Shets OF the party were exhausted
70 far as the state OF Texas, her
laws and legislatures making them
were concerned, and then came a
stage e :so SSFiosicl OK wrath d.
rccted 10 the individual citizen. II
was recited that anyone who would
live In Texas was OF certain impre-
hensible character, and that was suf-
ficieat to bring Mr.. FuQua into the
conversation.
He told the men that he lived In
Texas, was proud OF the fact and was
glad that the laws forbidding the
playing of cards and the drinking
OF alcoholics had been passed. and
had no apology to offer to any who
happened not TO like them" Mr..
Fuqua stated that "they finally ad-
mitted upon maturer thought that
there was good reason for the pass
age OF the laws"
Others Speak.
Messrs. Fryer and Russell, the two
members OF the committee present
aside from Mr.. Fuqua, spoke briefly,
giving assurances that they will as
sist with the undertaking. being vi
tally interested in the proposition.
II was later intlmated that in the
interest OF the immediate activity