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Show EDUCATORS IN APPEAL TO PARENTS Several hundred citizens, a majority ma-jority of them parents of ochool children, gathorod In tho First Meth-odlBt Meth-odlBt church yesterday evening to listen to addresses by Superintendent Superintend-ent John M. Mills of tho Ogden board of education, and Professor Henry Peterson, the- new principal at tho High school Rev. Frederick Vlning Fisher presided pre-sided and, following the close of his jj remarks, stated that ho had Invited jj the two leading spirits In tho city's I education matters to speak to the congregation on subjects In which all should bo Interested. During tho evening musical numbers were rendered ren-dered by Mrs Agnes Warner and Miss Rosamond Laird. Superintendent Mills dwelt particularly partic-ularly on the Ideals of education from different standpoints. Including that of the Spartan teachers of classic renown as well as those of the hermit her-mit scholars of history He advocated advo-cated co-operation between parents and teachers and the harmonization of home and school Influence, stating that parents should increase their lsilance In respect to the habits and associates of their children and bo constantly aware of their movements after dark, as It Is then that tempta- j tlons and opportunities Increase many-fold. Professor Peterson made a special point of the advisability of keeping chlldron In school, emphasizing the assertion that a boy who quits school at 14 and goos to work Is several dollars a week less valuable from an employment standpoint than the boy who studies a few years longer, and both will continue that ratio throughout life regardless of conditions condi-tions or Influence. Roth addresses were Intensely interesting in-teresting and instructive and manv passed to the front of the church after af-ter the close to meet tho new principal prin-cipal and to congratulate both on their excellent talks |