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the FLOWERS 5 Cts. T U r^v i4*7 ■ m/% 1 *7 Per Year Per Copy lnc future utizen $1.00 A Paper With a Purpose, Printed by the Reformatory Boys Doing the Best They Can. Volume II. Milledgeville, Ga., Saturday, April 8, 1916. Number 52 TOBACCO IS IN MAN DESTRUCTION Then Why Not Reverse and All That Are Human Aid in The Destruction of To bacco and Its Evil. There are many cases of boys whose use of tobacco has stopped their physical growth and there are thousands more whose minds are dwarfed, and all penal institu tions for boys and young men are filled with youths whose bodies are from.two to ten \ears older than their minds. Tobacco effects every part of the body. It prevents the proper digest ion of food , which is necessary to build bone and muscles Its poison gets into the blood and shrivels up the little blood corpuscles,just as al cohol does, so they cannot convey oxygen and nourishment to tne different parts of the body, nor' carry out the poisonous Waste matter.. It paralyzes the motor nerves so that they cannot properly control the circulation of the blood nor be steady. It acts upon the neives of the heart, giving it a disease called “tobacco heart.” It is stated that one fifth of all the young men examined for the United States navy fail to pass be cause of heart disease caused by the use of tobacco. A fine looking gentleman, who appeared to be in perfect health, said to a doctor: “I have smoked twenty cigars today.” The doctor asked, “Do you not feel some ill effects from it ?” . “No, sir, not a particle. I feel splendid. I am as sound as a dol lar.” The doctor took the man’s pulse and said : “Your heart is beating 108 times a minute and that is thirty six beats more than it ought to make in one minute. At that rate it would beat 1.190 too many times in an hour. The heart can not stand that kind of work many years •” Tobacco relaxes and weakens the muscles. That is why its victims are led to believe that it is so sooth ing, when it is simply taking away strength and endurance. By inves tigation it is found that the stu dents in our great institutions of learning who do not use tobacco develope, during the four years of college life more weight, height and chest girth and lung capicity than those who are occasional or habitual tobacco users, and it is a well known fact that prizefighters, pedestrians, oarsmen, billiard cham pions, etc., are not allowed by their trainers to use tobacco, be cause of »ts effect upon the nerves and muscles. It stupefies the brain, impairs the memory and weakens the mind—the will power. This is enough. How can any boy expect to grow and become a strong, reso lute man, as every boy desires to be, while he is determined to smoke or chew tobacco? An English journal says: “If there is a vice more prostrating to the mind and body, and more crip pling to the man’s spiritual nature, than tobacco, we have yet to be convinced of it.” A medical society in Paris examin ed thirty-eight boys of all classes of society and of average health, who had been using tobacco for periods ranging from two months to two or more years, and found that twenty- seven of them showed severe injury to the constitution and insufficient growth; thirty-two showed irregu- larityvof heart action, disordered stomach coughs, and craving for al coholic stimulants; thirteen had in- termittency of pulse, and one had consumption. After they aban doned the use of tobacco one-half were free from all symptons in six months, and the remainder had re covered by the end of the year. —The Shield. THE MAN ENGINE MUST COOL OFF You Should not Be Thinking of Life’s Problems and Business Incessantly. You Must Rest Your Mind. An engine can not be run con tinuously. It must be stopped re gularly to be oiled and cleaned. It must be given an occasional rest so that its bearings do not become heated through constant friction, thus wearing out entirely. Unless an engine gets its rest and unless it is cleaned and oiled, the engine will break down entirely. It will cither have to undergo repairs or be thrown upon the scrap heap The same thing applies to the human engine, both physically and mentally. To preserve one’s health, a man must rest regularly. He can not work all day long and all night long. He must sjop. He must end the friction upon his muscles. He must “icool off” just as the engine and then he will be ready to “run” again. And the brain, too, is like an engine. It is the great “think ing” engine that produces “thoughts” and these thoughts are power that makes the world move on and on. You can’t force the mind to pro duce “power” all day long and all night long. You can not be “think ing” constantly upon the problems of life and business. You must rest your mind. You must stop thinking about serious matters ever- y once in a while and give your brain a rest. The friction must come to a.i end. The brain engine must be allowed to “cool off.” It must recuperate. Otherwise, like the iron engine, it will give ot.t en tirely and will either have to be re paired through a long course of treatment in some sanatorium for “nervous breakdowns,” or go to the “scrap heap,” namely, the in sane asylum. The question of work, therefore, (Continued on page 8, Column 2) > A v i* YOU A UTTLE FUTURE Clii/EN IN YOUR HOME 7-WELL. YOU SHOULD