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Show COMMISSIONERS HOLD UP PETITION At Tuesday evening's meeting of , tho city commissioners ' the followi ing petition, which boro tho names of thirty eight prominent business men Including doctors or -the city, was read by Attorney John A. Sneddon: Petition. The Mayor and Commissioners of Logan City, Utah. ' Gentlemen Wo Uhe undersigned hereby aro convinced that tho bowling bowl-ing alleys and pool halls In this city aro places of beneficial recreation, and that there Is nothing pernicious or of an Immoral naturo carried on thorcln, and wo see no harmful re-'suits re-'suits tfcat could possibly como to tho 'young people of this city from tho games carried on in said placos. I From tho bowling alloys tho patrons I get physical exercises by virtue of I tho games offered therein, and In I tho pool halls tho potron dovolops ac- B curacy In measuring distance, and In I cause and effect which can bo Beldom I nccpilrcd elsewhere, and wo sco no I reason why your honornblo body 1 should not allow all young men over 1 tho "ago of 18 years of age, to remain L In tho said pool halls until tho hour ijsijV of it o'clock p. m. and no reason why IjL'.JP the oung men over tho ago of 18 years of ago should not bo allowed to I participate In tho garao of bowling nl- I Ioj-b untl ltho hour of eleven o'clock p. m and wo respectfully nsk you to ( giant the nbovo petition. Following tho reading, Mr. Sueddon "made a strong plon for a favorable cpnslderntlon of tho petition, setting forth In detail tho reasons for various vari-ous assertions mado thorcln: Prof. D. C. Jensen of tho 11. Y. Collego nnd Prof. John T. Cnlne or tho Agricultural Collego spoko against tho passage of tho petition. No official action was taken on tho matter, tho final BotUemont b-jlng de- i f erred until noxt Tuesday's meeting, AWt when it will bo passed upon. |