Show wily WHY IlL NOT AIM AD AT CENTER In some somo of oC the argument against what Is known as the anti 1 bill before the legislature on Friday there was Vas heard expression of oC the question h Why not try to prohibit the evil to which you OU object And Antl it seems to us the query is well founded Eyer Every ono who has hns observed even the tho most evident phases of or life knows that smoking Is injurious to youth Boys ore are hurt by it H. They can not arrive at development either mental or physical if IC the they indulge tho the habit In tho the growing period of or their lives They Thoy simply can not smoke without being stunted in inbody inbody bod body and If in brain as a result of oC it Then why h not forbid smoking The fhe bill under discussion forbids the selling of ot cJ or paper Even if Ir enacted into law and absolutely enforced it would not go to the root of or orthe the evil It would not abolish the use of or tho the cJ aret If a law forbidding tho the sale of ot these articles be constitutional wh why would not a law forbidding the smoking log ing of the tho especially If directed to persons of or eighteen years old and under under under- 1 be e In conformity with tho constitution 1 The harm comes of or the smoking smoking not not In tho the selling It Is not a good reply to say that the tho state now throws restrictions about liquor selling telling and forbids its sale to minors For on one thing the tho community makes a revenue from tho the liquor business Wo We doubt if JC the community community com coin wants to go so far tar into partnership with the tho business as ns to license the business and get et money from It Surely the state slate has a right to conserve tho the health and the habit of oC Its youth The broad broa ground on which l the tho community fixes lire firo limits and forbids the m marriage of oC diseased persons rind and guards against nuisances will sustain a law Jaw forbidding the smoking of or by perSons persons persons per per- sons under the ago age of ot eighteen or el eighteen or or twenty if It the state should fix that as ns the lie safer 11 limit 01 It And it Is the thing thine- aimed at Indiana has a law which Is regarded as most stringent It prohibits the having of cle or the I makings In the possession of or any ono one In the tho state It may be constitutional But It has by b no means been effective People have havo the materials manufactured and I otherwise In n their possession and not nol one olle in a thousand f of oC them Is Ig In an any way molested b by the officers of the law han There were sonic some prosecutions two years ago when tho the law Jaw was now but In general e the tho anti antl law of oC Indiana is a dead letter In every county of ot the state Wo We 0 see no reason why tho the prohibition can not be he levelled directly at nt the tho thing against which objection exl exists |