Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-18
TOBACCO CAUSES
 MANY FAILURES So Said Prof. M. w. O'Shea at Meeting of Parents
 Association.
PRACTICE CONDEMNED
Says Tobacco Sends Small Boys to the Bad and Makes
 Criminals.

Boston, May 1.-The use of tobac- co acting as ''social suggestion is the first thing that sends boys to the bad, according to Prof. M. w. O'Shea, who spoke before the National Con- gress of Mothers and Parent Teach ers' Association here today at it's sev- enteenth annual meeting.
 Going to the bad added Prof. O'Shea, does not necessarily mean committing any crime or getting in jail. The things that are most dread ed in a boys conduct by parents and teachers involve usually the forming of habits which waste the energy and bring disease upon the individual. Us ually the boy goes wrong when he fails to hold his sensuous impulses in check, or when he fails to develop mind and body so that he can accom- plish what modern society things is necessary for individual and social well-being.'
 Prof. O'Shea stated that in other countries 1t was quite the thing for a boy to use his vitality in the gratifi- cation of lower impulses and "The American youth in our times,' he add ed, must exercise considerable self control and give himself to wholesome physical, intellectual and social activi- ties in order to avoid going to the bad
 Continuing Prof. O'Shea spoke in part as follows:
 Here is the difficulty. Parents, teachers, and all students of human nature know that the chief suggestions that play upon the boy tend to arouse the old impulses that urge him to dis sipation. There is money ill appealing to the boys elemental passions. Ev- anywhere he goes, the stage is set for him and inflames him.
 Moreover, the majority of boys now are reared under the complex condi- ttons of city life. They are incessant- ly stimulated and stimulated They live constantly with adults and initiate them. Conduct which might be all right for the adult is stimulat- ed by immature individuals with dis astrous results. All students of hu- man nature realize that over-stimula- tion in early years leads to ripenins too early with cessation of develop ment in one respect or another. Ii always leads to lack of nervous poise and balance with the result that i'm pulses easily get the upper hand o an individual in times of stress an( strain. No civilization has yet solved the problem of city life. The chic cause of degeneracy in the race has been the inability to conserve yoItl under urban conditions.
 Parents and teachers realize tha one thing that sends the boy to the bad is the use of tobacco early. S( far as the boy is concerned, this is ; matter purely of social suggestion When he first uses tobacco, every thing in him rebels. He learns i simply because it is forced upon hin through suggestion. And when ht comes to use it particular phycholo gical effect upon him results. Il makes him feel that he is mature, SC that he tends to become indocile in his attitude toward the school and tht teachings of the home. It may bt that tobacco does not hurt the boy physically. but it certainly robs hin of his simplicity and practicity; ant tends toward his arrest on low plane, plane on which he does no use his mind or body for the highes uses.