South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-19
PRINCETON BOYS
CIGARET SMOKERS
Nicotine Victims Are From 7
to II Years-Poor Scholar
ship is Shown.

PRINCETON. IND. May 19.-
Eighty boys IN the grades Il the
Princeton schools are users Of to-
bacco James ". StOtt superintend-
ent, said IN submitting figures be-
fore the Civic club in an appeal for
cooperation Of parents and citizens
generally 10 overcome the ravages
that the use OF tobacco is making in
the schools. The schools here arc
among the best n the state, and the
Discipline within the school jurisdic-
ton is nearly perfect but Supt.
Stott and the teachers agree the
mentality OF "A large number OF
pupils IN both grades and high
school has been seriously affected
By smoking done outside school and
which can be reached only through
the parents. who. IL is charged. in
the majority Of instances show an
indifference.
Many Smoke Snipcs.
One statement that created sur
prise was that the majority OF the
grade boys smoke cigaret snipes
licked up from the streets small
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sniDes from the streets. then con-
gregate in an alley or some out-of-
the-way place and smoke them.
Others bTIy them in their gardens.
then at a convenient time dig them
up. invite in other boys and have a
smoker one boy admitted 70 his
teacher that he smoked 10 cigarvts
q day: another said he smoked a
Tipe a number Of cigarets and all
the snipes he could ind When
asked where they got their cigarets
some said they procured them from
other boys. others from their faith
ers' stores, while two admitted they
could buy them wherever they
wanted 10. one boy, an habitudl
'snipe shooter confessed that the
snipes he smokes he gets from the
gutter He has looked for these
snipes so continuously that he hes
formed tho habit Of looking down.
and when seen is always looking
down.
Mr.. Scott said 10 costs $247 a
month or Sill a term 10 school a
boy here and tiat cigaret smoking
SO affects the mental capacity Of the
user that he must do his work over,
thereby doubling the expense With
the exception OF one pupil. every
boy that has dropped out of school
during the present term has been a
smoker The superintendent said.
a1d he was not positive this boy did
lot smoke.
Supt. Stott presented these statis-
tics On the grades. I'm the second
pIade are eight who use tobacco in
some form I'M the third grade. IL
in the fourth grade. nine: in the
NTH grade. 10. IN the sixth grade
%. in the seventh and eighth
irades. IT.
OF these so. two are seven years
old; six are eight years old: THEE
are nine years old: seven are 10
years old; six are II years old.
eight are II years old. IA are Is
years old: &c are u years old: Il
are 10 years old. four are 16 years
old three are u years old. The
majority of these smoke cigaret
snipes picked up in the streets. It
as stated
High school Figures.
In the high school. Supt Stutt
Salu, Z0-b per cent OF the BOYS acc
habituaI smokers. In the freshman
class 100 per cent. Of all of the
smokers either f.uled OF we're cor
ditiOned in one or more subjects
while among the nonsmokers those
who failed or were conditioned
amounted To 63.63 per cent In the
other high school classes those who
failed or were conditioned are thus
divided. Sophomores nonsmokcrs
23.S6 per cent. smokers 100 per
cent. juniors. nonsmCkers 22.22 per
cent. smokers so per cent. seniors.
ncnsmokers 22.22 per cent. smokers
90 % per cent
2'he entire teaching force" said
the superintendent lis irving 10
eliminate this habit from the city
schools ny shutting out as far as
possible bad Influences and holding
Up hieh ideals. The study Of
hygiene conN inced one bov of tho
error of his ways. and ne uui.
smoking snipes. Another BOY enter
&c a race and was beaten: he WAS
told that II he wished 10 he an ath-
iete he must abstain from smoking
cigarcts. He quit But the schoo,