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Show ""CIV!C DAY" At ' ' THE HSGH SCHOOL Child Culture Club Holds Meeting Which Is Addressed Ad-dressed By the City Commissioners, Educators Edu-cators and Members of the Club. ' "Civic Day" day was observed yesterday yester-day afternoon at tho high school at a meeting of the Child Culture club at which tho commissioners, Proressor J. 0 Cross, Professor John M. Mills, Reverend F. Vinlng Fisher, W. A. James and George w". Bailey were guests. A luncheon, was served at 3 o'clock Immediately after which Mrs. Minnib Smith called tho meeting to order and after a fow remarks, concern,-ing concern,-ing "Civic Day" and its meaning, Introduced In-troduced Mrs. J, T. Lynch, who read a paper on the "Sanitary Grocery Store and Meat MarkeL" The papor set forth the development of the sanitary grocery store, and what it meant to tho health of the public in general, explaining that though It might be considered a fad by some, it was the healthiest and most sensible sensi-ble fad that had thus far taken hold of the American people and one which was spreading over the whole country. Why should It not be ns sensible to havo tho groceries and other foods that one daily consumes and takes into in-to the human system as carefully takr on care of as hardware; why shoulu berries and fruit be placed on the floor there to catch .-all dust and dirt, while- millinery is displayed In show cases. Why should not meats and vegetables be displayed in glass show cases and on glass shelves as well as jewelry? These and a score of other questions were asked in tho paper, read by MVs. Lynch. In closing the paper stated that during the past year more oi me sanuarj giuuoi. stores and meat markets had been coming into existence here and there, throughout" the country ana they ore usually found to pay. for the discriminating discrim-inating public Is willing to pay a little lit-tle more, if indeed sanitation does cost more, rather than put up with tho old conditions. Mrs. Barrows' Address. Mrs. Elizabeth Barrows next addressed ad-dressed the meeting and stated at tho outset that her talk would be moro or less extemporaneous as she had no paper prepared. Mrs. Barrows Bpoko of the "Civic Day" as having been a difficult subject in tho past for the club to deal with, as this date on their program had been somewhat of a sticker as no one had understood oxactly what the term meant, or at least, what should be done lo observe ob-serve the day. She spoke of tho condition of the Ogden streets as offering an example of where civic Improvement might be started, but did not feel that it was a matter hardly within the province of tho Child Culture club. In closing she road a clipping from an eastern paper, pa-per, which enumerated a number of authors and their works which bore largely on the subject of civic improvement im-provement and uplift. Mayor Fell Talks. Mrs, Smith next called upon Mayor A. G. Fell for a talk,: but Mr. Fell declined, de-clined, saying that he had not come prepared to speak and under tho circumstances would ask to be excused. ex-cused. Tho Reverend Vinlng Fisher waB next called on and delivered a short talk in which he said that he sincerely hoped that tho day of the unsanitary groceries and markets were passed and that he really felt they were doomed. Mr. Fisher said he had just returned from a visit to Grand Junction, Colorado, and was Impressed with the wonderful public spirit and advanced ideas that prevailed pre-vailed there Though a town not as largo as Ogden, it seemed to him far more progressive in many respects. He said that ho believed that local affairs In many towns throughout the , country bad suffered through too much nationalism to the neglect of home civic conditions Sanitary Meat Markets. W. A. James was next called on and lirt AnrlaovnrAH in oYnlnln tVia pnnrll. tions from the dealers point of view. Ho said that wLile sanitary stores and markets were a good thing, it often of-ten happened that merchants with advanced ad-vanced ideas who had put In glaBS show cases and shelves, had suffered a loss and in some cases had failed in business. He believed that tho conditions could, bo Improved through sanitary inspectors and in bettering existing establishments, but thought that the people must be educated up to the understanding of the meaning of and the understanding of the value val-ue of the sanitation before it would become a success. Commlscloner Browning. Commissioner T. S. Browning spoke next, and at the outset said, he wanted want-ed to say that he thought tho Child Culture club's idea to be a groat one. The family, said Mr. Browning, Is tho foundation of the nation, and the teaching of sanitation should begin there. Parents .should not consider themselves too old to learn and when tho family is cleaned up, there will be no trouble In cleaning up the city and state. He said further, that tho realization of the responsibilities of parentage are often lost sight of, in the pursuit of wealth and thus a great wron is done, for tho man wno rears a good family Ib of greater importance import-ance to the community at large, than the man who amaBses great wealth. Mr. Browning closed his remarks by saying that conditions at home must bo betlejed before thoso conditions would bo remedied. Commlcsloner Nye. Commissioner J. C. Nye. spoke of conditions existing in tho backyards, vacant lots, alleys and othor placos over "which the city government had no control and said he believed theso conditions could be bettered by civic clubs or oven by tho matter being taken up by tho "school children Ho cited several incidents where this had been done in other cities Mr. Nyo said he. was heartily in sympathy with any civic movement which had to do with the bottorment of existing exist-ing sanitary conditions and felt sure that tho commission would lend Its aid wherever posBlble. Professor Mills spoke briefly of the influence of the school children on family conditions con-ditions and said ho bolicved the children chil-dren could spread much civic righteousness. right-eousness. Professor Cro88. Professor Gross a,'so spoke briefly,, tho tenor of his remarks being jjhat he thought reform could not be legislated, legis-lated, but that tho peoplo must-1 be educated first to an understanding oi whnvt tho.rcfonne mennt. cine the MjBIHvSmB'IM reform would be likely to bring about a public feeling against them. George W. Bailey, who has charge of the Chemistry department at the high school, spoke of the many experiments ex-periments that had been carrledi on at the school and of tho Interest taken tak-en by the pupils in the study of microbes mic-robes and bacteria and how ho had endeavored to Impress upon them tho need of sanitation. Mrs. Smith In closing the meeting, thanked tho gontlemcn present for their attendance and expressed tho hopo that the movement now on foot for the building of a new civic playground play-ground and building for tho children, might be brought about Members of Club Present. Tho members of tho club who were present were as follows: Mrs. J. E. Browning, Mrs. H. Jr. Barrows, Mrs. J. P. Bush, Mrs. John Browning, Mrs. F, W. Chambers, Mrs. R Chambers, Mrsi; Thomas Dec, Mrs. David Eecies, Mrs, Nettie Eccles, Mrs. J. Farr, Mrs. C. M. Gosling, Mrs. H. W. Gwilliani, IrB. L. Gowans, Mrs. G. Glen, Mrs. T. B Holler, Mrs. J. T. Lynch, Mrs. W. Harris, Mrs. J. Mills, Mrs. C. A. Smurthwaite, Miss Jejiule Scott, Mrs. S. S. Smith, MJbs Evqlvn West. Mrs. P. T. Wright and Mrs. 0. Riser. |
