| Show my boy do you smoke the united states navy annually takes into its service a large number r boys who arc sent all over the ind and taught to be thorough 0 sailors it has been the policy of the 0 government since tile war to educate the blue jacket upon like principle that thai the more intelligent telli tell igent cut a man is tho the better belter sailor he is likely to lo become there tharo is I 1 is no lack of candidates for these positions hundreds of boys apply but many are arc rejected because it they lev cannot pass tile physical examination ma ilia jor houston one of the marine corps who ulso is in ili charge of the washington hi ton navy kavy yard barracks is tile the authority for the statement that one fifth afif ill of all the boys examined me are rejected on account of bicart disease uis his first question to a boy who tie dc sires to enlist is dodou smoky smoke the invariable response is no sir but tho lite telltale tell tale discoloration of tile hie fingers at once shows tile the truth tie I 1 suro surgeons colis say that cigarette smoking I 1 by boys produces heart disease I 1 ud lud that in ill ilin ninety ety nine liuo cases out of a 1 I hundred ilic ic ejection of would be apprentices on acco account lint of this defect comes fro from cac asi e of the milder form of the weed iced this is a remarkable statement coining co liling 0 as it does docs faoul so him high oll an air authority and b based ased upon tile the results of examinations pillon going I 1 day after day will and mouth month after it should be a 1 I warning ili to lo parents that 0 tile deadly 1 li I e irette is sure to bring M about incalculable injury to the young A law passed restrict in 11 m its uso i to tile dades would not perhaps I 1 bring till popular disfavor because it might reduce the number jilt of obice t s about our streets but boys indulging illin in tile the ci cigarette giretto ought to be e tre treated abed to liberal dosis of iod oil in pickle until tile the habit is if thoroughly eradicated |
