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tnNESDAY, qctobe^ esses Good Th rou ghou ntendent Of Public ruction Tells of North alina Schools /?1.fare depts. STING education Great Investment dmation Of Youth Of Carolina (I.VDE A. ERWIX all Superintendent MM it- Instruction Carolina's program of v education for all its ot be effective with-1 icquate program or regui attendance of children1 nine months school the first compulsory ciidance law was pass-, 7 the required term of 1/ P T 11 riC/FNT s / ; A' v / C F SOITHPORT CLEANERS SOL'THPORT, N. C. ? Why wait until the c< cover that leaking roof? COVER N< FORD C1 LOCK-TITE The Shingles that KI And The Wj SAVE FUEL and REPA1F These shingles are gui against material and wor caiei's to choose from?5 and Green. JAMES E. Agent For Bru M. C. MclVER, 211 N. 6t DISTRII ?Estimates { K I Ga 3. 1945 , ' Attendance t School Year school was only sixteen weeks, attendance being compulsory only after the people voted for it. At that time there was no provision for transportation of pupils to modern consolidated buildings In rural areas, with all the advantages these institutions now afford in instructional service, space and equipment. The length of the school term has been greatly extended, however, until now every child has the opportunity of attending, a school having a nine months' term. The compulsory school attendance law, too, has been improved and finally extended to fifteen years for 1945-46 and to sixteen years for 1946-47 and thereafter. Whether any higher goal will be developed atter that remains for the coming years and the wishes and demands of the people. North Carolina is the only state in the nation that has a school system of 12 grades operating for nine months of the year almost entirely at the expense of the state government. Annually its fleet of 4,815 school buses carries approximately 333,800 children 15,600,600 miles during the school term from points near their homes to the consolidated schools. The State's educational system, including its transportation facilities, now re>ld winds start to blow to DW WITH fCLONE SHINf.IFS LEP the COLD OUT \RMTH IN. IS IN YEARS TO COME aranteed for 10 full years kmanship defects. Three lorris blend, Blue-Black, PINNER, nswick County h St., Wilmington, N. C., 1UTOR Are Free? WE WANT T( >weet I SEE US BEFOI rrell J NEW WARI TABOF I presents an investment of $129,-j( j 000,000 in buildings, equipment' i (and vehicles and is operated at < ja cost of approximately $50,000,-1: jooo a year. [i To get the fullest return from ' this investment and this opera-, ] (ting cost, all children of the State t j between the ages of six and 21 i 'who have not completed high ' l ' school should take advantage of. 1 the full school term. Those child- 1 ren between the ages of seven ( and 15 (16 after this year) should, ji ; in accordance with the law, be | required to attend school, unless/ they are excused under the rules/ and regulations governing com- 1 pulsory attendance as adopted by (the State Board of Education. Parents themselves can do the 1 most toward making certain that j their children are in school for, I the required number of hours each ' day. Failure to attend school should be permitted only when' there is a valid excuse such as illness or other unavoidable causes. The school law definitely places upon parents or guardians the lesponsibility of seeing that their .children attend school regularly, and provides a penalty of a find for continued failure to do so. In every county of the state, court officials are familiar with , certain families of the community who are charged each year with j wilful failure to send their child- ' I ren to school. There are certain ' instances in which families may (not be able to provide the proper ! clothing for their children in view jof limited family income. Because of this they may hesitate to send their children to school regularly, but for cases like this the county board of education may, under the law, give up to J $10 a month during the school term to help keep the child properly clothed. I The county department of pub; lie welfare also will cooperate in this respect and provide, within limitations of funds avaiable for that purpose, whatever' aid it can for the child. The welfare agency has money contributed by the county, the State, and the national governments to give ccr tain relatives with whom the r,V,ila in liirinn, finnn'nin, nnnintnnnn vimvi 10 uvmg liiianvirti asoioiaiicc jfor the child as long as the child I remains in school up until 18 ! years of age. Those funds are provided under the Social Se- ' curity Act for aid to dependent children when there is loss of the ! normal breadwinner. For example, i if only the mother remains to support her family, she will not i -have to keep the oldest child out ; of school to care for the younger, tones during the hours she might! , be working. These funds for j aiding dependent children will be ' ; available as long as the children ) BUY YOUR 'otatoes ?r/NT Y rsr*i 1 <t YUU M.LL Sales C HOUSE IN I CITY THE STATE PORT PILOT, jf school age continue their education. This assistance may be obtained by application to the superintendent of public welfare in the county. Recent modifications in the law peimit school units to set up special officers to check truancy and absence cases and provide for their pay through fines or other local funds. Some school units have taken advantage of this new law and others, doubtless, will do so in the future. In most North Carolina counties, however, the county welfare superintendent is still the chief school attendance officer. In the years following the first world war county superintendent of schools in all except a few more populous localities of North Carolina, was also the superintendent of public welfare; and from this lime on one of the duties of the welfare head was enforcement of school attendance. In those instances where the two jobs were combined, it was not difficult for the welfare superintendent to keep in touch with the truancy cases because they were daily brought to his attention in his school duties. With the expansion of both the public education and the public welfare programs in the State in the past few years, however, the problem of enforcing school attendance has been increasingly greater. Where no special attendance officer has been employed the educational system has relied on the welfare units to handle truancy cases. Sometime in the future, no doubt, a more effective enforcement system will be worked out in North Carolina, but until that is done the county welfare departments will share with the schools and special officers the job of keeping North Carolina's youth in the classrooms. Parents will help greatly in taking care of this problem by assuming their share of responsibility in making certain that their children are in school or that they have a reasonable excuse for not being there. All North Carolina public schools are now ODen for the 1945-46 school term. They offer our youth an opportunity for advancement that should not be disregarded, if the boys and girls of today are to develop into the leaders of the commonwealth tomorrow. Regular school attendance by each boy and girl is the first step in getting th most out of the opportunity which the school provides. Civilians will now receive 136 million pounds of the 1945 canned salmon pack instead of the 55 million pounds previously allotted. # I I 1 ,u. . *: . *> SOUTHPORT N. C. , JOBS! ' All of us believe in the future of America. We believe that the present uncertainty is only a! j temporary period between war prosperity and an era of peacetime plenty. But believing is not enough. That, alone, is not the answer to ^unemployment and the other hazards of reconversion through [which we are passing. The only solution for unemployment is? JOBS. We, in this community, are, fortunate. Of course, the national! ! situation is bound to have some | influence on each State and Ooun-1 ty of the nation, but by and large iwe have no reconversion pioblems. here. Our farms and forests are j producing commodities as necesj sary to the well-being of the | country and as urgently needed1 now as during the crucial years' of war. A job is waiting for almost anyone who wishes to work. Of course, working on a farm or cutting pulpwood in the forests does not pay the swollen wages obtainable from some of the big city war industries be- j fore V-J Day. But living and working here does not cut wide gaps into a paycheck either, with ( everything from rent to recrea-1 : tion at inflated prices. In fact, ! taking all things into considers| I tion, it is possible to live better1 land save more at current wages j j here than could be done with con! siderably higher big city wages, j Nor are current wages low. j Curregt farm prices enable farm-j ! era to earn and pay good wages,1 I while pay for pulpwood cutters and haulers and other workers in i forest industrfes are higher than I 'hey have ever been, i If anybody wants good living.: doing healthy and invigorating work at good wages, he can find it on one of our neighboring j farms or in cutting urgently needI ed top quality pulpwood for one of our neighboring pulp mills. mere is no reconversion prouI lem here. 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