| Show NEW RULES OPPOSED I School Board Q rd Wants Mayor Thomps n to Veto the Health H alth Ordinance Ordinances The board of education committee on I teachers and anti schools met in the office of Chairman l Q W Moyle MoyIe afternoon and amt vigorously dissected the ordinance relve re e to the care a of books pencils and sponges of the pupils In iu inthe the schools which felt passed the he council j last Jut Tuesday day Tue The result of be their i deliberations was the voicing vol of a I unanimous opinion that the ordinance if it became law w would prove either a dead letter Jetter or enormously ly aspen expensive expensive sive and an intolerable hindrance to school work With this title view before them the trustees appointed ap a sub subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee committee to wait upon lu Thomp Thompson T son and endeavor to persuade him to veto the measure mea ure and to use his in influence Influence fluence to prevent lt It being again brought up The meeting was held behind closed doors and was attended by Chairman O p 9 W Moyle E IE B W J I the school board Superintendent Chris Christensen Christensen Christensen Superintendent of Buildings William Pinney and Dr p W Whit Whitney Whitney Whitney ney medical inspector The clause in inthe Inthe Inthe the ordinance which caused the most consternation among amon the committee committeemen co men was that requiring that all ail al school schoolbooks schoolbooks books shall be oe thoroughly disinfected dl before being transferred from one pu pupil pil pU to another There are from MOM 10 to books that would come under this regulation regulationS Sone Sene S of these are almost constantly changing hands and at the end of each term tenn there would be an exchange of all of them According to Dr Whit Whitney ney ny the difficulties in the way of prop property properly erty erly disinfecting books is such that it ft would require an exposure of five days to the disinfectant dl tant to make anything like a thorough Job As often time the t e books that are given up by one pupil at t the close of a day are required by another next morning the trustees tru tees hold held hE d that this would be impossible impo As M to the clause prohibiting the ex en exchange exchange change of pencils and sponges Chair Chairman Chairman Chairman man Moyle oyle explained d that following a suggestion of Dr Whitney they were already enforcing this regulation Dr Whitney had also been asked to look into the matter of book covers and is preparing to report on the sub subject subject subject We Ve dont donOt wish to be considered as lighting fighting the Ute health board said Mr Moyle at the close of the meeting but we believe it would be utterly Impossible sible to comply with this ordna I without seriously interfering with the school work and ani the expenditure of an I immense amount of money If the board of health will confer with Dr Whitney who Is Js better posted on what is practical in the administration of school affairs and frame an ordinance j which he will indorse we vre shall offer no 9 opposition The committee appointed to call on Mayor Thompson is made up of Super Superintendent SuperIntendent SuperIntendent Christensen Dr Whitney B E BB EB BB B Critchlow and O 0 W IV Y Moyle |
