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Show HIGH SCHOOL COYS RESPOND TO EARNEST APPZAL TO II.rROVE PRESENT HABITS At a special meeting of tba high school' athletic association yesterday, afternoos) la tba gymnasium assembly room tba boys of tba west aide institution insti-tution naanimoualy decided that since every attempted athletie sport in the school this year had beea a failure, they would at least conquer tha cigarette cigar-ette habit that haa beea growing upoa soma of tha boya of tba high achooL Principal George A. Eatoa called ta- f ether tba boys of tha school for eart to heart talk, aad by asking tha opinion) of tha boya, tried to hit upoa a plan that would put aa and to cigarette cigar-ette smoking ia tba echool. la addressing tba assembly Principal Kama dwelt upoa tha many acta of vnadalisai that bsd of lata been associated asso-ciated with tha high school boya. He nV-lnred tl.st nnl"s a tnrn for the betrer were man1', high school athletics would decav completely, and that the demoralising habits contracted by the boya of tha school would kill tba school itself, tie asked that In the future the ho would cease spending afternoons after-noons after school hours lounging in cigar stores and similar loafing places. Tha Ulk by the "eaar" waa aa fa ther to son, and at tba eloaa ba called npon many of the boya present to atate their idea aa to what should ba done to weed out bad babita in tha school and get back agsia oa tba right track. Boya stood np before tha assembly and declared that the remarks of tha principal had bit home, but that tbev were ready to tnrn over a new lenf. Mclntyre, tha most prominent athlete in tha school, said that the greatest reason for tha lack of strong men this spring ia track work waa that tba majority ma-jority of tba boya in tba school would rather spend the afternoons la cigar stores and oa tba streets tbaa on the athletie Held. Percifal Young, a thoroughbred booster for school athletics, . moved that aa everything from football down had proved a failure this year, they start from now on to overcome tha wayward habits that have all but killed- athletice and the spirit in the school; break away from associates of cigar stores and bring tba Bait Lake high school back to where it formerly haa beea and should always ' ba a leading example for tba other and smaller schools of tha atate. -Tha motloa was carried. unanimously by tha athletie association and a determined de-termined attempt will ba made by the boya to live up to it. |