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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

not smoke or cheW the poisonous plant.
Gwen the mild use of stimulants is
incompatible with work requiring ac-
curate attention and definite concentra-
tion. To assist me in my work of bud
ding, work that is as accurate and ex-
acting as Matchmaking, | have force
of some twenty men, | discharge men
from this force at the first show of in
competency. Some time ago my fore
man asked me if | took pains to inquire
into the personal habits of my men. On
prised me by saying that the men I
found unable to do the delicate work of
budding invariably turned out to be
smokers and drinkers. These men,
while able to do the rough work of
farming, call budding and other de-
licate work 'puttering' and have to give
it up, owing to an inability to concen-
trate their nerve force Even men who
smoke one cigar day | cannot trust
with some of my delicate work. Cigar
cites are even more damaging than
cigars, and their use by boys is little
short of criminal" ."-Luther Burbank.
"The pleasing, soothing sensation
which accompanies smoke, should, in
itself cause doubt as to the wisdom of
it's use, as the poison, even where spar
ingly used, is cumulative, and means
slavery to a habit that cannot but be
| injurious.
Tobacco takes a heavy toll directly
from the nerves, and here (in our
strenuous modern life) is where we can
least afford it.
''The most eminent scientific and me-
dical men declare that Tobacco is one of
the most deadly poisons, and cannot be
used by any one who is in perfect health
without causing temporary illness, and
it's constant use produces heart disease
and other ailments, which are inherited
by offspring to the third and fourth
generation. DR. B. NJ. Laurence.
Tobacco and alcohol, twin curses of
barbarism and civilization, hand in
hand, are destroyers of peace, prosper
ity, health and happiness Of the nations.
Alcohol and tobacco have ever been and
still continue to be the chiefest curses
and greatest destroyers of the human
family" John W. Hodge, NJ. D.
"The tobacco-habit is filthy, disgust
ing and pernicious. It is plague
whereby the world is pestered and af-
flicted. 1t is curse devoid of single
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

redeemlng feature. 1t has been con-
demned and denounced by every philo-
sopher who ever passed judgment upon
it."-John W. Hodge, NJ. D.
GAS citizens of a republic and joint
owners of the common atmosphere, we,
the one million men and fifty million
women and girls who do not use to-
bacco have the right to insist that the
addicts of tobacco shall put away their
cigars, cigarettes and pipes while in our
company John w. Hodge, NJ. D.
II have intimated that the tobacco
consumer is not, indeed, necessarily and
inevitably, but naturally and usually, a
blackguard, = the chewing and smok-
ing obviously tend to blackguardism." -
Horace Greeley.
"Show me drunkard that doesn't use
tobacco, and will show you a white
blackbird. d."-HOrdce Greeley.
$50 inseparable are the habits of
drinking and smoking that in some
places the same word expresses both
acts. Thus 'peend' in the Bengal Ian
Adam Clarke.
DR.. Gibbons of San Francisco,
Calf:
Smoke, when it enters the mouth,
absorbs the putrid emanations which it
finds there, and diffuses them in the
atmosphere. It is disgusting to reflect
that as you walk the crowded thorough
fare, you are compelled to take in the
fumes of thousand cigarettes, cigars,
and pipes, you are breathing the foul
ef1uvia from decayed teeth and filthy
mouths and diseased lungs
Charles Lamb wrote the following in
his Farewell to Tobacco"
"Stinking'st of the sinking kind,
| Filth of the mouth, and fog of the mind,
Africa, that boasts her folsom,
Breeds no such prodigious poison"
Hottentots use the oil of tobacco to
kill snakes, single minute drop caus-
ing death as quickly as a lightning
stroke It is much used by gardeners
and keepers of greenhouses to destroy
grubs and noxious insects.
A Methodist Clergyman says:
"I have two hundred and sixty MEM
bers in my charge, and about one hun
dred use tobacco. On making inquiry
of each, find they have spent for that
article in one year $845.OO. The entire
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24
Words of the Wise on
Tobacco

Tobacco is the most natural curse Of
modern civilization. John Ruskin.
Il feel great interest in any effort to
check the pernicious habit of tobacco
using. It is not only nuisance, but a
moral and physical evil and a shame to
our boasted refinement and civiliza-
tion John G. Whittier.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

this alone can we escape the deluge
of physical, mental, and spiritual wreck
age.
''We need a new birth of physical
Righteousness. We need some great,
well-developed genius to direct the null
titudes to a higher standard of right
eousness and reveal the real purpose of
living. May God have mercy on our
great Republic!'
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24
''WHAT TOBACCO Does"

w Hal IObACCO OOEO.
1. Poisons the saliva.
2. Injuries the senses of smell, taste,
sight and hearing.
3. Causes hOarseness of mouth and
throat, destroying the purity of the
voice.
4. Lessons the natural appetite, in
jures the stomach, stops digestion.
5. Arouses appetite for alcoholic and
other narcotic stimulants.
g. Irritates the air cells of the lungs,
= cigarette cough, shortness of breath.
T. It is a cardiac irritant, causing
palpitation and tobacco heart
8. Weakens the motor nerves, causes
trembling.
9. Causes nervous prostrations, di-
minished virility, melancholy and i'm
paired memory.
10. Stops the most perfect develop
ment of the body; athletes in training
are not allowed to use tobacco.
II. Poisons the home air which wo-
breathe murders the babies.
II. In the young it arrests develop
ment Of the body, mind and highest
nerve centers and stunts the growth.
13. Makes a man rob his family of
comforts which his tobacco money
would buy, while he is buying for him
self nothing but misery, disease and i'm
potency.
"A thousand letters were sent out to
Chicago physicians, asking series Of
Of xxyhi0 oh q
the percent of Chicago physicians who
smoke cigarettes. Among the replies
was one from Chas Gilbert Danis, NE. D.
''The effect of cigarette smoking, or
any other tobacco smoking, is injurious
in the extreme.
"Its great harm comes to those who
inhale the smoke. It is one of the most
destructive and injurious habits that
anyone can follow. If long continued,
it will disturb, undermine, and scatter
the strongest nervous system.
"Any man who smokes tobacco and
inhales the smoke is unfit to hold any
position of trust or responsibility. The
habit is not necessarily hard to break.
"Many women in Chicago smoke Gig
arettes. It is more injurious to women
than to men, because the nervous or
ganization is more delicate in women
than in men. The habit is more destruc-
tive to children than to adults. A boy
with a cigarette in his mouth is walk
ing towards the gallows; the girl-fac-
ing toward the red-light district.
"Most all degenerates, criminals,
many insane, male and female pros
titutes smoke cigarettes
"Czolgosz who murdered our beloved
President Mckinley Guiteau, the assas-
sin of Garfield; Booth, the degenerate
who robbed our country of the glorious
Lincoln, were all saturated with nico-
tine.
'The fiend who took the life Of Sadi
Carnot, the President of the French Re-
public, was poisoned from inhaling the
fumes of tobacco. The same thing is
true of the murderers of the Empress
of Austria and the King of Italy.
''The four unfortunate youths who died
on the gallows in Chicago few days
ago almost to the last moment inhaled
the fumes of the deadly cigarette.
"Western civilization is gradually but
surely drifting into condition of de-
generacy. Out of this army of degen-
crates comes the vicious, the criminal
and the insane. Practically speaking,
mankind is becoming alcoholic and to-
bacco mad The nervous system is
crumbling, owing to saturation OF al
cohol and nicotine.
''What must we do to be saved?
"Rescue the children! In this, and
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

redeeming feature. It has been con-
demned and denounced by every philo-
sopher who ever passed judgment upon
it."-Johm W. Hodge, NJ. d.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

retain clear head, sound lungs, undis-
turbed heart, or healthy stomach must
not smoke or chew the poisonous plant"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

A Methodist Clergyman says:
'I have two hundred and sixty MEM
bers in my charge, and about one hun
dred use tobacco. On making inquiry
of each, I find they have spent for that
article in one year S845.0O. The entire
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-24

$50 inseparable are the habits of
drinking and smoking that in some
places the same word expresses both
acts. Thus 'peend' in the Bengal Ian
guage signifed to drink and smoke. >
Adam Clarke.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY PAULINE DE WILLIE.

Every Friday in the place of his tory, the pupils of room 4 are request ed to recite word for word, a part of some patriotic speech, as practice in memory work.
 The second year English instead of devoting all of their time to literature, as they have been doing in the past week, will divide their time between English literature and rhetoric.
 One of the pupils in French class commented on the 2rules in French grammar. She said it was very Clfficult language to learn as they had no standard rule for the pronun- citation of different words. Our teach ST reminded us that our language was iust as difficult for foreign peoples to master as their is for us, because we have no standard rule either. Just because ough is pronounced O in dough there is no reason for it's being pronounced the same in tough, as that would change the meaning of the word entirely.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY MARGARET FOSTER

The penmanship class in the higher grades has become so large that it has been divided into two classes, the advanced class taking the work twice a week.
 Every Friday the high school his tory classes take their history period in which to recite some patriotic poem or a part of some great ora tion.
 Thelma Mcconnell and Elizabeth OIoughlen were absent from school on Friday.
 The high school English classes are going to address Miss Keever and their classmates on the subject of Some Reasons Why High School Pupils Shourr Speak and Write Good English
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
VALUE OF FOLk-DANCING.

Tr. Luther H. Gulick, of New York City, one of the foremost educators of America has the following to say in regard to the value of folk-danc- ing:
 ''The movement for folk-dancing in America is far more significant and complex than appears at first sight. It's simple and obvious reasons lie in the healthful exercise which the folk dance affords, particularly for girls, under the restricted conditions of city schoolyards, where play-space is lim- ited; and the fact that children like these dances and do them with en- thusiasm, thus deriving from them more vigorous exercise than they would through less enjoyable move ments.
 But while the physiological bearing of folk-dancing is important it is not ultimate or final. There is also the love of beauty and rhythm for which modern life seems to afford little op- portunity, which expresses itself spontaneously in olk-dances contain ing the emotional experiences of the race. There is connected with the folkdance, love of the open, of the vigor and joy of activity for it's own sake, of cooperation with others in exercises of rhythmical beauty. There is that sense of balance and propor- tion that is related to all real art. More people can express themselves aestheically through dancing than Ehrough any of the other arts. That iS a greater number of people can learn to dance than to sing, write poetry, paint pictures or do anything else of an artistic character. So the folkdance movement is really a great aesthetic folk-movemen
 But it has a meaning with reference to American life that is still deeper. One of the sad things regarding i'm migration is the breaking away of the children from the traditions of the parents. The smart young American children of foreign stock do not under stand their own historic setting, do not understand their parents or the meaning of the family traditions and customs. We in America have recog- nized the value of the labor which the immigrants have brought to us, wealth of tradition and experience which is embodied in the race-history of our immigrants; yet the great so- cial composite that is developing in America is an embodiment, not only of the physical abilities of the old
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY KATHERINE ROYCE

list has been received from the A. N. Palmer Company of those who will receive their diplomas for last terms work in penmanship. They are: Elizabeth O'Loughlen, Doris Adams, Katherine Boyce, Edna Thaw- ley, Dorothy Dooley, Pauline De Vile and John Rosswog.
 The modern and medieval history which they will review in before con tinuing the work.
 Thelma Mcconnell was absent sev- eral days this week on account of the illness of her father.
 William and Leo Laurie are con fined to their homes with a slight at tack of whooping cough
 Wednesday evening a number of the. high school pupils took advan- tage of the first snow fall and had sliding party on the Hazelet hill. Owing to the fact that there were not enough sleds to go round, fry pans, dish pans and even stew kettles were pressed into service. Everyone had a good time and no one was hurt. Thursday was such a beautiful day that it brought to mind quotation from Whittier's Snow Bound":
 'No clouds above, no earth below,
 A universe O. SKY and snow"
 We expect to learn some great ath- letic stunts soon as Miss Temple has promised to teach us to sit down in two counts
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY EUGENE TIBBS

The school has been having some carpenter work done in the high school room and other parts of the building. A broken window in Room 4 has been replaced at the expense of Earth O'Loughlen, who accidental ly threw a book against it.
 Miss Temple has made the recita- tion of history very unpleasant to some of us by making the rule that we stand in front of the class and make a speech on the part of the history that was previously assigned us. i>a ls fg
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

Room 8 had the best attendance for the month of September, having 99 per cent attendance and 100 per cent in punctuality The room with the best average each month is awarded a beautiful framed picture which will hang in that room the following month, or until some other room wins it by making a better record The room that has the best record for the greatest number of months of the year, will have the picture to keep nexl year.
 Sometimes an advertisement furn- ishes good reading, and the following one entitled "How Father Beat the School Tardy-Bell' is copied in the hope that parents who have children who are forming the tardy-habit may read and profit by it.
 Like most successful business men he was stickler for punctual1ty. lie considered his habit of being at the right place at the right time larSely responsible for his success. To en- courage the same habit in his sons he gave each boy a new alarm clock on the day he started to school. The clock is the boys very OWn-just as his pencils and school books.
 The plan works like charm. The boys are proud to bring their report card home; the time tardy" col umns show a clean record. And tath- CT is pleased because he knows they are learning one of the big secrets of his success; getting on the job at the first tap of the gong. If you ask him the most important study his boys are taking, he'll answer: "PunctHallty, and he'll recommend as text book dependable alarm clock
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY GEORGE w.

The desks in the high school room have been screwed onto long parallel boards so they can be moved, leaving the room bare for any game, play ol meeting for which it may be wanted
 Some of the children who have brought lunches have been making so much noise that Miss Keever had the teachers remind them to be quiet Miss Temple, in attempting to repeat this order, said that Miss Keever had asked the children who brought lunches ''to eat less noisily."
 Miss Coulter, the teacher of the second and third grades, has taken charge of the typewriting class.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY BROOKE

Every Friday the medieval history class has speeches made by the pupils. The speeches may be taken from the Literary Digest or the Worlds Work, but they must pertain to history.
 Most of the boys have been spend ing their recesses playing tug of-war.
 The algebra class will discontinue taking algebra at Christmas, and take geometry.
 There are eight girls and seven boys in Room 4.
 The pupils in Room 4 are going to have an old fashioned spelling match.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BL E, O'LOUGHLEN.

Physical culture, one of the most essential of school studies has been introduced into the high school and is being received with much enthusiasm. Miss L. L. Temple of the high school has specialized in the branch and is very competent in corrective gym nasum work. Folk dancing and vari- ous deep breathing exercises have been given attention, and with the perfection of these, more advanced exercises will be taken up. The high school is gratified for this line of in structiOn.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

Last Tuesday an invitation was extended the high School by the seventh and eighth grades to join them in their folk dancing. This was accepted anG so thoroughly en- joyed that Miss Haggland has kindly consented to teach them to us. At present we are practicing Swedish folk dance, one Danish dance, and the 'ace of diamonds" all of which are entered into with the greatest enthusiasm.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

to have his name on the Honor Roll are punctuality, excellence in all sub jects and a good citizenship grade Each Monday morning the names of the pupils whose standing was above criticism the preceding week appear on the Roll.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY ALBERT DENNIS

The in the high school who are taking French or Latin are also talk
 ing review of grammar, so they will have less difficulty with these languages. They are, at present, re, viewing the parts of speech and their use in the sentence There has also been some practicing at diagraming.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

Miss Doris Adams. niece of Mayor A. J. Adams, who is now at her home in California, but who spent last year in Cordova and was a faithful student in our high school, has written an ln- teresting letter telling of her work this year She is continuing her commercial course in the Yuba City high school
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

On the evening of Friday, October 9, a most delightful reception was rendered the faculty of the school by the Parent-Teacher Association at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Donohoe. It was a graceful courtesy, much ap- preciated by the teachers, and all present seemed to enjoy the opportun, ity thus afforded for social conversa- ton, as well as the interesting pro- gram of musical numbers which had been provided
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY VICTOR MARSHALL

The class in ancient history has been having review work on the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babelonion and Hebrew empires.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
School Notes

countries but also includes strands of their rich aesthetic life. To see a group of fOreignborn people bringing not only their labor to use, but their literature, their music, their folk dancing, is to understand something of what is happening in connection with the folk-dance movement. It makes the people feel that they be long, that they are being recognized, that the old is being used in the construction of the new.
 Dancing is a language which may express that which is pure and true or that which is debasing and de- grading All work in folkdancing should be a definite, concrete force, making this language in America speak the word that is true and wholesome.'
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY VICTOR MARSHALL

As soon as the books of the library are checked up by Miss Keever, they will be ready for the children to take home
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

"RUral parents would be lacking in the element which makes civilization enduring, if they did not desire for their children educational opportuni- ties comparable to those in cities "- Gov. Cox in Letter of Acceptance.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY HARRY O'NEILL

Miss Coulter is teaching the type writing class now.
 The high school has taken up folk dancing.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW.

Section 104 of the Laws of Alaska, provides for penalties for violation of the compulsory school law. It pro vides in part that any parent or guar dian who shall allow his ward or child to remain from school five days of each quarter without legal excuse shall be punished by fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, and the cost of the prosecu, tion, and shall be imprisoned in the federal jail until sucn fine and costs are paid:" Section 105 makes it the duty of principals and school boards to lay before the United States com. missioner any violation of the law.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

During September, only nine par ents visited the work of the school. We take it that more did not come because it was the opening month and they kindly wished to give us time to get everything into smooth running order. It hasn't taken long to do that, and all the teachers and pupils will your school, not ours. Won't you come and see what we are attempting to do work together inteIligently and un- derstandingly for their good?
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

Thomas A. Edison is at work on a machine with which he hopes to re- ceive spirit messages from the dead. if he could devise a plan for getting a truthful report of the presidents s condition from Dr. Grayson.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY E. O'LOUGHLEN,

$ In order that we strive for perfec- tion, each teacher has begun an Honor Roll The requirements for one
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

The aim of the Cordova public school is to make gcod American citizens who will THINK RIGHT and DO RIGHT tecause they KNOW the RIGHT.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16

L. D. Henderson, commissioner of education for Alaska, has recently re- turned from a tour of the territory. He reports that the number of chil- dren attending public schools is grow ing in all parts of the territory, even in the sections which have shown a decreased population. One of the problems this year has been to get teachers, he reports, though at this time all schools except one have been supplied. At the next session of the legislature, MT. Henderson hopes to see provision made whereby schools in the larger towns may get more ter ritorial aid than at present.
The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-16
BY LEONA CHURCHILL

Folk dancing has grown very pop ular at school.
The evening world., 1920-12-16
WiIlgS-ODeTIaRd Company
Posses Preferred DiDidend

The wiIlya Overland Company
passed its preferred dividend At .
special meeting yesterday. Tue sol-
loving 10 part OF q Statemsnt given
out by the directors;
Until the period Of readtustmsnt
IN the motor industry, now IN prog
ress, has been completed and Abnor-
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To that end several changes IN sN-
acutive personnsl have BEEN unade,
The financial position Of the company
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