Show PUBLIC SCHOOLS EFFECTS OF NARCOTICS 1 much his been said about st george being an extraordinary good place for young people to get their moral training although tim city has a glod name it ran be improved in many respects one main thing that should be avoided is the use of narcotics by the citizens if the people of S george intend to stop the use of narcotics which chev ought to do the will all have to unite and put an end to the narcotic adds that the merchants are decorating our streets with chese kinds of adds not only tell a bad story for the city but also cause the users to be constantly thinking of their old habits our town now has a law saying that na alcohol should be used for drinking purposes the people should not only make this law but should stand by it when the parents know where smuggling is going on and they know that and middle aged men are gathering in old barns and outside places to drink alcohol which is next thing to poison they should not deeo it a secret but should report it to the sheriff it is a part of his work to see that no tricks are being played in the line of drinking whisky therefore the laws that are made toward checking the use of narcotics should not only be made but put into force narcotics are great destroyers to the human body the most important thing that alcohol does toward destroying the body is that it paralyzes the nerve the important thing that tobacco does t the body id that we breathe the poisonous smoke into our lungs it is then taken by the blood to different parts of the body smoking ako causes the lining of the passages air to become inflamed and most always caused shortness of breath most all the alcoholic drinkers have weak hearts this is because of great quantities of fat that gathers around it in this condition the heart cannot do its work properly alcohol causes the walls of the blood vessels to become hard and brittle and very often they break tobacco also has an effect upon be heart it causes the heart to beat more rapidly while the force odthe beat very strong and in time the badts are very irregular tobacco is often the cause of indigestion it first weakens the heart so that the digestive organs cannot get a sufficient supply of blood it also causes the digestive juices to become lessened this checks the food from being digested properly alcohol helps to hinder digestion it does it by hindering the blood vessels and helps weaken the heart alcohol is very harmful to the brain it dulls the nerves and in time paralyzes them the nerves going to and from the brain are checked this stops the brain from working properly and causes insanity alcohol also baures the little openings in the muscles to become failed with fat this males them large and puffy in this condition they become weak and are unable to move the bines alcohol hinders the bones growing larger it also hinders the town where it is used from expanding and from building homes and public houses the husbands and fathers take all the money that they make to buy narcotics money then amstead of being used to buy clothing and food for the drunkards families building homes and improving the town is used to destroy the body and break up the home thus we have seen how narcotics effect the body and town therefore the users should lay aside these two harmful drugs and their money in something that be uplifting both to the individual and community in which they live verna cox ath grae woodward school |