Show If OPENING SCHOOL HOUR BOUt I Salt Lake Medical Society Resolves Against a Requested Change I SAYS PRESENT PRACTICE IS THE BEST 1 Ill 1 k tire 101 of Ed if It toUr 13 I to-Ur the itonnion Iht Iel Uo Hoo a ThOr I I I I It The proposition to change the hour l of opening the public schools trum 930 1 to 9 uelock a m Ins struck a snag The Salt Like Medical society backed by public opinion us gleaned by members I I mem-bers of tho organization has resolved I ngllnst It and will report to the board a of education edUelton accordingly Tho petition fur the change corn thlciugh the teachers and some ot the I patrons of the Hamilton school who 1 sot forth that S30 was not as ad I l nntagous in hlllth and progress M I an opening hour ns 9 oelock that tho L t pupils gather on tho school grounds nt g I groundsat 4 v tile allle hour and consequently waste the best thirty minutes of the J f r day that the afternoon hour for closing ing 340 p nadma not ke pupils 1 i i sufficient time for the outdoor ex erelse necessary for the preservation of I health and the accumulation of cner ID that for that reason school should I 3PI also close thirty minutes earlier than Is now thc custom This relues was referred to the coin of it on teachers and school work tit i t-it her i it has beeTo under investIgation for some Ume To many i Persons i the i petition 1 has seemed Inconsistent anti I extraordinary and n little fear has 9 been expressed that It might be grant 4 1 ed Among those who hl enter r talned this fear are members of the I I Salt 4 Lake Medical society who took 9 I the question up and gave it a vigorous 1 A discussion at their last meeting The I contentions of the Hamilton school I people Wet strongly declaimed against It and held to b untenable Opposition was uninlmous It being urged that a I granting of the ifquent would bo both r expensive and unhygenlc expensive In 11 I that parents of pupils would have to Mc earlier In the morning causing an 1 11 I increase In the consumption 01 fuel and light and unhygenlc In that pupils X I would not have the neeessary time to 1 lirepare for school cat their breakfasts I and be In their class rom when the I I gong sounds These and other reasons N 2 rea-sons will be presented by tho Medical t It society to the board of education tIt 4 t-It meeting tomorrow night r I t aIn I a-In this wnlllon I may not be In t I appropriate to slate that In the earlier I is times of the present school system that I 9 oclock was the regular hour for I opening but that It J to I W changed I Jil 930 for the very reasons now urged I I by the Medical society The change I e met with popular approval at the time kil i 11i It was made and It Is not considered Ill likely that the board will g back to t I a old conditions now nw I j e |