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Show COMPULSORY OIL ILDJ1M1CE Board of Education Takes Action Because of Protests Pro-tests of Parents. BOYS ALSO OBJECT Another Meeting Will Be Held to Thoroughly Discuss Dis-cuss the Matter. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, .Jan. 7. Plans to re establish estab-lish compulsory military drill in the Ogden high school were interrupted and virtually brought to a standstill tonight, to-night, when the board of education in consideration of the protests of nearly thirty parents, is-ued orders against the suspension of students who fail to report re-port for drill. The reprieve will be effective until t;ext Wednesday night, when the board w ill give the matter further consideration. Of the total number coming under the compulsory order about forty per cent failed last Monday night to report re-port for the firt drill. Under the decision de-cision of the hoard of education authorizing au-thorizing the reinstatement of military drill and the action of the school grievance griev-ance committee, the students stand suspended. sus-pended. It has been the decision to excuse no boys of the freshmen and sophomore classes from military drill except on orders from the school physicians. phy-sicians. Protests Are Received. At tonight's meeting- the board received re-ceived letters of protest from about twenty-five parents, who object to their children being compelled to take the drill. In most instances - objection was made on the grounds that the student is needed for home work or regular employment outside of school hours. The list of parents making written Srotest to the board included W. J. erinody, A. Whittemore, ('. C. Aadne-son, Aadne-son, O. A. Byrne, VT. Jl. Bennett, the Kev. George E. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. B. Jansen, A. K. Thomas, J. M. Stone, Sydney Syd-ney James Brine. Mrs. A. L. Howe, Mia. G. E. MeClure, Mrs. A. J. Put-namf Put-namf "W. M. Wilson. Howard D. Harris, David Farr, Mrs. Enoch Farr, Jr., Mrs. B. Chadwick, Jr., W. N. Burt, W. A. Koldewyn, Mrs, A. M. Christenson and Mrs. W. E. Corey. Meaning Is Plain. Some of the protests were couched in no uncertain terms. In the case of Mr. and Mrs. B. Jansen the parents wrote: "If you cannot excuse our son from this (military drill) under a democratic demo-cratic form of government, yon can use monarchical power by expelling him from school." One of the letters, written by stu- dents themselves, who are subject to compulsory drill, protested on tlni ground that tha writers, all of whom y are carriers for an Ogden evening r newspaper, would be compelled to gr"c up their routes. This is the protest : We, the undersigned paper car-i car-i iers, refuse to give up our routes in order to take military drill. What arrangements can be made! Please excuse us from drill. j Kay Adams, Sam Biackham, Kei-neth Kei-neth Can field. B. Hutchison, C. Sandslrom, H. Jansen, Harold Hill, B. Wilson, Alfred Whitto-more. Whitto-more. Excused Temporarily. Ou tho motion of Director H. II. Henderson Hen-derson the board first decided to temporarily tem-porarily excuse all those students mentioned men-tioned in the letters of protest presented present-ed tonight, but the members were reminded re-minded by Superintendent John M. Mills that perhaps as many more si dents stood suspended for failure to report last Monday. It was unfair, he argued, to make them lose a week of school pending the board 's action. Director Hen del son then amended bt motion to include nil those students who failed to report. Tho action of the board means that virtually no student now subject to compulsory military drill in tho high school will be compelled to report 1 or drill until the board has reached a final decision in the matter next Wednesdav night. Superintendent Mills was instructed to notify all resons connected with the sc h ool s wh o h a v e anything t o do wil ii drill to attend the meeting. Any other parents of the citv who object to their sons taking the drill are expected by the board to write a letter of pt, N-test. |