Show I Why Boys who Smoke are Rejected The UnitedStates navy annually takes into service a large number of apprentice boys who are sent all over the world and taught to be thorough sailors It has been the policy of the Government since the war to educate the blue jacket up on the principle that tho more intelligent a man is the better sailor he is likely to become There is no lack of candidates for these positions Hundreds of boys apply but many are rejected because they cannot pass the physical examina tion Major Houston of tho marine corps who is in cha g3 of the Washing ton navy yard barracks is the authority for the statement that onefifth of all the boys examined are rejected on account of heart disease His first question to a boy who desires to enlist is Do you smoke The invariable response is No sir but the telltale discoloration of the fingers fin-gers at once shows the truth The surgeons sur-geons say that cigarettesmoking boys produces heart disease and that in ninetynine out of a hundred the re I jection of wouldbe apprentices on account ac-count of this defect comes from excessive use of the milder form of the weed This is a remarkable statement coming as it does from so high an authority and based j upon the results of an actual l examina tions going on day after day and month after month It should be a warning to parents that the deadly cigarette is sure to bring about incalculable injury to the young A law passed restricting its use to the dudes would not perhaps bring I popular disfavor because it might reduce I the number of these objects about our I streetSjbnt boys indulging the cigarette I ought to be treated to liberal doses of I rod inpickle until the habit is thorough ly I eradicated i I |