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Show WIDE DISCUSSION AT CIVIC FORM MEETING D. II. Christejisen's Lecture Postponed, hut Members , Have Lively Session. D. H. Chrlstcnsen, superintendent of the city schools, was to have delivered an address at the meeting of the Civic forum at Unity hall Sunday night, but as Mr. Chrlstcnson's family has been quarantined quar-antined for scarlet fever, ahd while lie Is not In the household at the present time, he did not deem It advisable for him to appear In public, so that his lecture was postponed until it can be given under more favorablo conditions. W. W. Barton, principal of the Hamilton Hamil-ton school in ibis city, took Mr. Christen-sen's Christen-sen's placo and read a paper on "The Schools and Moral lifflciency." In which he contended that, the school Is efficient In moral instruction. A general discussion of the views advanced ad-vanced by Mr. Barton followed the reading read-ing of his paper, but the arguments were not conllned to the subject under consideration, consid-eration, they ran the whole gamut, almost, al-most, of tho socialist movement. One speaker said that they should not leach I heir children to sing "My Country. "TIs of Tlicc," because their children owned none of tho land. Again It was contended contend-ed by another speaker that militarism was being advocated In the schools and ho did not propose to vote bonds for militarism or military equipment. Still another orator put forth tho Idea that no merchant, engaging Iu business In these modern days, could continue bis vocation and be honest. Another speaker condemned con-demned the reading of llcllon; while, on the other hand, still another debater said that much cultivation of the mind could be derived from tlio reading of wholesome Action. The relations of tlio sexes also entered Into the discussion, and capitalism capital-ism and labor and many ollufr phases of present-day Issues came up for con-sideintlon, con-sideintlon, and after a -debute lasting for nearly an hour and a half the meeting adjourned. |