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;THE . CHEMAWA' AMERICAN
SPRING
A Composition from the Fourth Grade
,In the spring the flowers spring up.
.How beautiful the meadows and green
mountains look with pretty flowers and
green, grass. And I like "to hear the
birds sing, and the . robins' rob. When
the spring comes all the farmers and
gardeners get busy sowing .grain and
vegetables. - -.
I bought land and, of course I got it
cheap; and that'.-! how I felt after I gov
. this land.j: jt - . ' .
When spring Same I sowed some
beans. Of course T. put, .some cans -on
the end of the pole,, so. when the beans
crept up the pole they crept into the
cans. Ami after doing this they pulled
the lids down and c.mned themselves,
as they were. But this is hard to be
lieve. And I Fowed the tonmfr seeds, and '
sliced them up. After doing this I
thought :: perhaps I . could raise some
sliced tomatoes, but? nothing came up
but a big earth worm.
I played baseball too last spring: Be
fore the game commenced the manager
'came ov r.'to me and-askea what par-
. ticular position I played. I told him
I played none in particular , He dis-
, covered that later oh: . After -long de
liberation he pot me short stop,'; It was
the shortest stop I ever made- in-
- that position. , Some, impertinent J.apa--nese
fans'standihghear by told me I.
had a responsible position on the team
because it all passed through my hand's.
Bad Boys and Cigarettes.
The effects of cigarette using by young
boys would be a startling; revelation, to
many of their mothers if they understood
the alarming proportions to. which it. has -grown
in this country, .' .'.,
.magistrate, in Harlem court, New
York, made the foil wing significant de
claration :
"Yesterday I had. before me 33 boys
prisoners, 33 of whom are confirmed
cigarette smokers.
"Today, I have found the gruesome
discovery, from a reliable source, that
two of the largest cigarette manufactur
ers in this country soak their products
in a weak solution of opium.
The fact that out of 35 prisoners 33
smoked cigarettes might seem to indicate
some direct connection cigarettes and
crime. And when it is announced on
authority that most cigarettes are doped
with opium, this connection is not hard
to understand.
The cigarette is to young boys very
much what whiskey is to grown men.
It does not directly cause crime it - at
least accomplishes it in nine cases out of
ten.
It must be universally admitted that the
majority of voting boys addicted to cigar
ettes are generally regarded as bad boys.
It is an addiction that does not ally it
self with the highv virtues of manly
'-youth! It leaps to bad associations and
environments,
.;;He- must be a strange boy, indeed,
.who can derive: moral and physical good
from cigarettes..
Opium is like whiskey it creates an
increasing appetite that grows witii
what it feeds upon. Even pure tobacco
has the same effects.
The. growing, boy who lets tobacco
opium get hold upon his senses is never
lohrg ' in coming under the dominion of
; whiskev, too. :
: Tobacco is the boy's easiest and most
direct road to whiskey. When opium
is added the young, man's chance of re
sisting the combined forces and escaping
'physical, mental and moral harm is
slim, indeed. ' It is a deadly combination
in most cases. There are a few, if any,
.-case in which it is not more or k"B
, harmful. Stomach-and nerve and will
power weakenirig,fo life is the common
result, even though the habits finally he
mastered. Kx.