The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-12-11
DR.. Crafts Talks to
High School Students

OF every one hundred children who
start to school. ever finish high school.
Every day a child is away from gram
mar school costs him s4 ana every
day he is away from high school, costs
him $40. Those are the figures com
piled by the Y. NJ c. A. association /"
The speaker designated Manly in
dependence" as the third essential and
likened humanity TO a drove of sheep
in following the footsteps of some
leader without having made investiga-
ton as TO where that leader would
take them Displaying a huge replica
OF a Japanese carp. DR.. Crafts declar-
ed, The carp is a symbol OF energy
and told the story of the Japanese Gus
tom OF, on certain specified days. dis
playing an image OF carp for every
boy in the household. If there are
four boys in the family there will be
four carps floating from a pole placed
on top OF the japanese houses. The
people Of that nation tell their boys
to be carp. meaning have mind
OF your own. and be energetic. Push
against the current A carp swims
against the current. not with it,
why does boy learn to smoke?
smoked week when | was a boy /
didn't smoke because | liked il. but
because wanted to be manly. | pus
a cigar in my mouth and strutted down
the street and expected folks TO say,
What manly boy that is, but they
said. What fool he is. To be carp
is yorth while.
There has been Law passed in
Japan that no one under 20 years Of
age shall use tobacco. and none over
20 shall use tobacco when they are
going @ school"
The speaker declared self control,
beginning with bodily control, to be
the fourth essential and the chiyalric |
duties, one 10 another to be the firth.
In his connection, he suggested the
of chivalry committees in
the high school, a committee of three |
70 be elected from the girls aud
committee OF three to be. elected from
among the boys. The duties OF these
would be to see that ,
spirit Of chivaIry existed and was re-
cognized by all students OF the high |
school FOR Instance" said DR.
Crafts, two or three boys. students
at the high school are standing on the
s0rner making suIgar and unccuth re-
marks about passing women. The
goes to them and tells
them. Here, you are making fools out
of yourselves and YOU are giving the
school black eye We'll cut you ami |
you viii be like the man without a
country If YOU don't quit it,.
1T has been reported to me time
after time, that every high school
has four or five plague bearing rats
among the boys and two or three
plague bearing rats among the girls.
These must be reformed or soften out.
II they are not. they will act upon the
rest Of the student body like 80 many |
rotten apples in the midst of y barrel !
'f good apples.
4 want YOU to remember that alco-
lol is not stimulant 1t is the con
irary. It's effects are depressing. Do
'ou think man lying in the gutter, I
lead drunk, is stimulated Alcohol is
narcotic. I'll give you three stimls
ants; Hct water. hot milk and deep
The last essential is simply this,
md | want you deep thinkers to pom
Ter it we'll No woman can be woman
y and no man can be manly unless
hey do something that no beast can
10. And let me tell you that il you
'ieure it right down, that's pretty
hard"