The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-12-19


present" says an advertiser. True,
but unfortunately there's SO often diff
ference between the real and the
ideal.
Mr.. Thos. Knox OF Liberty was a
lcaller at the PILOT office Wednes-
day.
Be sensible in doing your Christmas
shopping. II your income is slender
be governed by the thought of retribu-
tion in January rather than distribution
in December.
Mr.. J. Fl. McCulley of Clarks Mills
was caller at the PILOT Office We'd
nesday.
| Olaf Lundberg, VIM Brandt, Albert
Petska, George Pfeffer and Deputy
Clerk A. j. Anton were at Chicago
and Madison the first of the week to
inspect road machinery to be purchas-
ed by the county.
Mr.. Andrew Bogenschuetz OF Cen
tervlle was caller at the PILOT
office Tuesday.
Joseph Connell of Manitowoc, county
supervisor of assessment and income
tax assessor for Calumet and Manitowoc
counties, has been named Il member OF
the commission of three to reassess
property in Oconto county. The selec-
ton of Mr.. Connell is good one for
he is n man of good judgment, far and
impartial in his work.-Chilton Times.
The Crop Reporting Board of the
Bureau of Statistics of the United States
Department of Agriculture estimates,
from the reports of the correspondents
and agents of the Bureau, that the
total production of cotton in the United
States for the season of l912-19l3 will
amount to 6,6l2, 335, 900 pounds mot in
GLIDING linters,) equivalent to $780,
600 bales of 500 pounds, gross weight.
The estimated production by states
follows:
Virginia, $4,000 bales; N. Carolina,
$4,000; S. Carolina, |, 1874 200; Georgia,
1,70l, 900; Florida, $4,000; Alabama
$780, 900; Mississippi, 100000; Louis
lana, $4,000; Texas, 4,850,000: Ar
kansas, $4,000; Tennessee, 100000;
Missouri, $1,000; Oklahoma, I,039,000:
California, 5000.
Over ninety per cent of all the boys
who fail in the grammar and high
schools are smokers, according to
Prof. M. V. O'Shea of the University
of Wisconsin. The tobacco evil, he
declares, is the most serious one that
the public schools have to contend
with.
Most boys do not learn to smoke be-
cause they like tobacco, but because
their school fellows smoke. 1t is a
social thing with the boy. BY doing it
he thinks he is one of "the crowd"
ana nOI an OuLSlueF.
Unruly boys are almost always ad-
dcted to the cigarette habit. Smok-
ing robs pupils of their docility. Rec
ords kept of the work of students who
were not addicted to the smoking
| habit when they entered the high
school but who acquired it later, show
that not only did these pupils become
harder to manage, but the quality of
their:school work also declined great
| ly.
What hold the smoking evil has
gained on public school boys is indi-
Gated by the statements made by a
number of high school principals who
declare that from so to 80 per cent of
high school pupils are now using
cigarettes.
1t is an interesting fact that the
strongest sentiment against smoking
has arisen in communities in which
the raising Of tobacco is the principal
industry Tobacco men do not want
young boys in their own communities
| to smoke, and in number of places
in Wisconsin various organizations
have taken stand against smoking by
school children.