Show praises cormons mormons Mor mons for stand against narcotics praising the litter day paints for their positive stand against the ube of stimulants and narcotics dr hoag medical inspector of the public schools of berkeley cal and an expert on hygiene delivered a forceful lecture to the teachers and principals of the local public schools at the high school gemnas lum assembly hill yesterday afternoon dr hoag declared eliat through out the country 50 per cent of school children are addicted to the ue of coffee and suffer from aiuto cation through indulgence in nar colias of tins sort lick of cioper food and the obber vince of the simplest herlth rules the said scandinavians were particularly addicted to the use of coffee 1 I want to make an exception of the mormon scandinavians dinavi ans however he said the cormons mormons Mor mons as I 1 hive learned do not sanction alic use of tea coffee or liquors I 1 want to say the cormons mormons Mor mons hac a lot of good health I 1 admire them for the stand aliey tiko on this matter the subjects referred to by dr hoig treated in frank and fearless manner the doctor declared tint miny school cli ildren are not alcin this is not their fault ho declared but they have not been given alie proper training in hygiene are taught too much abstract theory he asserted and not enough actual practice and simple methods of do wa things dr hoag eliat 10 per cent of school children hive mide quate breakfasts he urged that teachers make it a point to ascertain what their students have for breakfast and to instruct aliat to eit and how and to cat it he declared that 22 per cent of stud enad have chronic headaches hia daches due to auto intoxication from improper food coffee and the like he de cried the habit of parents taking young school children out of a night when they should bo in bed having proper rest dr hoag condemned alio tendency of parents to overdress their children what children need is less clothing as a rule he said from a hygienic standpoint the speaker declared that alie present stiles of dress have solved the lem of filothea pretty well he said the avenge women who wilks down the street today shows matelli gence in the matter of alie amount of clothes she deais deseret news |