Show WEST POINT CADETS MAY SMOKE From the Philadelphia Inquirer At last the ban has been lifted from smoking nt West Point and hereafter cadets may smoke pipes In their rooms and certain pavts of the grounds but are prohibited cigars and cigarettes Thus ends a controversy that Is many decades old Gen Grant said Uls first temptation to smoke wis at West Point where It was prohibited lie tried it with such poor success that he never became the habitual smoker he Is reputed reput-ed until during the Civil war when he was showcreu with lino cigars by admirers ad-mirers Gen Scholleld says that when he was at the academy he used to smoke on the quiet and got many demerits de-merits for so doing though ho Is certain cer-tain from his own experience that he was not Injured and thai It was a solace so-lace which should not have been denied Ho also says that time prohibitory rule drove many cadets into the t practice Of course it Is not pleasing fact that young men who are to fight our battles for us should want to break rules for the express purpose of doing so without being found out if i possible > but theie seems to be quite ns much human nature na-ture at the academy as elsewhere and the authorities have surrendered not to ethics but to cold facts |