The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-06-12
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p SSiO!e chance OF getting DlSSeF re-
turns where it Will count. When he
,&kas time out .or sleep ne wants to
do 1t up in good shape. W1en he
gets in his recreation, he wants to
enjoy himself to the top limit. NJ
matter what he is doing, ne goes into
it for all it is worth.
This is why drugs and stimulants
make such an appeal to the city man.
They offer a shortcut method OF get
ting results. They seem to give ma
ture a boost. A drug will often put us
to sleep sooner than we can get there
unaided. If we have the blues we
take a dose out of = bottle and soon
EEL happy and energetic again. With
the help OF a powder or two, we can
knock out a headache and manage to
keep at our business without any loss
4 time. If we have to work extra
hours. we can keep ourselves awake
and up to the game by the hep OF
a stimulant
In other words, what drugs, mar
cotics and stimulants seem to pro-
mise is increased efficiency without
increased cost. If this were really
the case, the use of drugs would be
habit to encourage. But this is a
fallacy.
There is no drug that can be taken
into the system regularly without
working harm Every drug mas sec
! cndary effect as we'll as primary one.
Only one result is possible,-the
shortening cf the users usefulness
When a man sits down on a hoT-
nets nest he is Immediately led to
expand an unusual amount of energy.
but this hornets nest creates the en-
ergy. 1t was stored up the mans nerves
and muscles. The act Of sitting down
, in an unaccustomed place simply en-
abled the man to spend more energy
in a given space of time than ne other
wise would have done. A stimulant
/ is very much like whip. What it
really does is to increase a mans
energy-spending power, it turns on
more current.
Popular education will be the source
of protection, that all may nave
fair chance for useful life.
There are other great factors OF
vice and crime leading to a national
decay: also there is the enormous
waste of human life by our railroads,
mills, mines and factories amounting
to tens of thousands annually and
those permanently injured and
made a burden to themselves and to
socity to tens Of thousands more. In
no other civilized country in the world
is this loss anywhere near as great
in proportion to work accomplished
as in the United States. The greatest
part OF this immense loss can be pre-
vented.
The best sources Of information for
those interested in the conservation
of humanity are the lives of great
men. Our youth should be directed to
! the histories of the leaders Of the past.
A striving to succeed as they succeed
ed will tend to the making of better
men of us ALL
S. Smiles has written that "Biogra-
phies Of great but especially OF good
men, are most instructive and useful
as help, guides and incentives OF
others. some of the best are almost
equivalent to gospels-teaching nigh
living, high thinking, and energetic
actions for their own he world S
good AS the wealth of the nation
rests in it's men, so is the nation
dependent upon the patriotism of its
children. Most OF the States of our
/ United Staes have a sen, a study OF
whose life will be an incentive to pat
riotism. a lesson to all, tending to
make better citizens Of each Of US.
Searching amongst tie great names