Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 1963 Page: 24 of 32
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sil be going places.
My news is siiort but before I close
I wisíh ta say I hope you all háve a
wonderful Easter and a Happy Easter,
even though I am latě in wishing it
to all of you.
Fraternally yours,
Zephyr Spence
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LODGE NO. 66, WACO
Bear Readers,
Šummer is bere and baseball, too. My
little brother who is 12, is going to playj
for the Seven-Up team this year.
Chri&topher bas played balí three years
now and is going on his foiirth, I
ieel the w.hole family loves to get out
'there and yell “Come on get the balí
fooys; leťs win this game.” The games
are full of excitement and laughs. The
boys are out to play their, best for
their team.
Summer also means a new queen for
Lodge No. 66 and my honor to crown
the new queen. It also means many
other activities with our youth Club;
there are parties and District III meet-
ings and Youth Activity Day. I know
the youth are looking forward to the
iday that is set aside for the'last Sun-
day in June. I hope to see all of the
District III youth at Dallas Lodge 130
where this Yciuth Day will be held.
It is just one year before the SPJST
Conve.ntion will be iheld here. A new
giri will be chosen for a řour-year
reign as Miss SPJST. It is the honor of
Lodge No. 66 to be the hc,st and hostess
of this great convention.
I guess I had better close for now
and study, for tomorrow is another
school day.
Yours truly,
Jean Spence,
Queen of Lodge 66 Youth
ELK LODGE NO. 35 NOVE KVĚTY
Bear Readers:
Dast month no Youth Club meeting
was held because not enough members
were present for our Youth Assistant,
Sister Ruby Pavelka, to hold a meet-
ing. So please come to the next meet-
ing which will be held April 21, 1963.
Some forrn of entertainment will be
held because I’m sure we’11 háve some
visitors there, since the lodge will honor
our new members. So you Youth be
sure to come along with your parents.
Plans will be made at this meeting to
háve some fonn of entertainment for
the Youth Club members in the near
future. see all of you there and hope
you had a Happy Easter !
Fraternally yours,
Norma Pavelka, Youth Leader
VĚSTNÍK
TEEN-AGERS AND SMOKING
Yoiťve just been to a slumber party.
Two girls brought cigarettes and you,
like everycne else, tried one, maybe
two. The taste wasn’t great and you
felt awkard holding the cigarette, but
you would háve felt more self-eonscious
if you had been the only one who re-
fused.
Or, football season seems a long time
away. There is evena chance thay you
won’t make the squad. Most of your
friends háve been smoking for a year
or two and your father smokes two
packs a day. So why shouldrťt you?
If you do qualify for the team, yoiťll
just stop smoking.
To smoke or not to smoke? Iťs your
decision and you’11 bear full respon-
sibility for it.
Your parents will probably advise
against it, but iťs your own will power,
not theirs, that is about to be tested.
But before you make up your mind
to join the two million new teen-aged
smokers each year, look at the other
.šidě of the coin, particularly at Infor-
mation the American Cancer Society
has gathered in its campaign to dis-
courage teen-agers from smoking.
The society’s argument is simple. If
you smoke, you risk lung cancer, the
leading cancer killer of men. If you
smoke two packs of cigarettes a day
over a somewhat extended period of
time (upward of 15 years), the chances
are one out of ten that you will get
lung cancer. If you start smoking now,
the odds are stacked even more heavily
against you.
. Studios made by the society show
that most smokers begin before theyhe
20. It takés from one to two years for
smoking to become a reál hábit. The
earlier you begin, the more heavily
you eventually will smoke. Not only
will you. smoke cigarettes, but you will
inhale the smoke more deeply, thereby
causing greater lung damage.
Once you begin smoking , iťs diffi-
eult — and some say impossible — to
quit. Iťs better, say officials of the
Cancer Society, never to begin. But,
you ask, has it been proved conclusive-
ly that smoking causes lung cancer?
Scientists háve isolated at least eight
Chemicals from inhaled smoke that,
when on the backs of mice, cause can-
cer. They háve not been able to induce
cancer in a mouse’s lung, mainly be-
cause a mouše does not inhale smoke
the Same way a human being does.
And one more unpleasant statistic
from the American Cančer Society: 85
per cent of lung eaneers are incurable.
Wednesday, April 17, 1963
They are among the- most .difficult
cancers to detect, having few symp-
toms until the disease bas progressed
so far that trcatment is useless.
No one maintains that all lung can-
cers are caused by smoking (though
a nonsmokeťs odds of developing one
are I in 230), but many doetors sub-
scribe to the statement of the Royal
College of Physicians in London:
“Cigarette smoking is a cause of lung
cancer and brcnchitis and probably
contributes to the development of coro-
nary heart disease and various less
co.mmon diseases . . . cigarette smokers
háve the greatest risk oí dyíng from
these diseases and the risk is greater
for heavier smokers.” According to sta-
tistics of the American Public Health
Association, a million children now in
school will die of lung cancer before
they reach 70.
Thaťs one side of the argument.
There’s another, more personál side.
Smoking seems like an adult, sopliis-
ticated, mature hábit. Ýou know yoiťll
feei more at ease with yourself and
your surroundings with a cigarette in
your band. Are you sure?
“Nothing looks worse than a high
school girl with a cigarette in her
hands,” insisted a good-looking stu-
dent council president. “She either
doesn’t know how to manage the tliing
or she leoks just plain tough.”
From a girl editor of her high school
naper: “I don’t think smoking makes a
boy look older or more masculine. I
think it makes him. look more nervous
than anyone clse in the room.”
A finál point, in čase yoiťre in the
fringe group that thinks iťs smart to
smoke. A team of doetors recently con-
ducted a survey of tbe smoking habits
of high school students in the Newton,
Mass., area. Though the doetors admit
their results are open to interpretation,
their rescarch showed that the great
majority of freshmen and sophomore
boys and girls who smoked regularly
were in the bottom quarter of their
high school classes.
Iťs still your choice.
———) O I--
Never put any ungrounded electrical
appliance near water. In the bathroom,
electrical outlets shc.uld not be within
reach of the bathtub or shower. Per-
sonál carelessness is respo.nsible for
most of the death by electrocution
occurring in bathrooms each year.
❖ #
Wanting to work is so rai'e a merit
that it should be encouraged.
—A. Lincoln
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