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LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC. FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919.
CHILDREN MUST ATTEND
FULL T SCHOOL
Rules GoTcrning School Attendance
in the State Effective July 1;
Also Rules Governing Ab
sences from School
The State board of education an
nounces that school children in North
Carolina must attend the full term
of their district. The enforcement
of this law is in the hands of State
Superintendent Brooks, Roland F.
Beasley, commissioner of public wel
fare, and Dr. Watson, secretary to
the State board of health. The law
became effective uly 1.
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Greensboro News says:
"In defining the school ase 'be
tween S and U.' the superintendent
begins with the eighth and ends with
the fourteenth natal day. The com
mission then determines that children
between these ages must attend con
tinuously for a period equal to the
time when the public school in the
district in which the child resides
shall be in session. If the school in
such district runs six months the
child must attend that iength: if
more, even ten months, the attend
ance must be continuous. If the
child attends a private school it must
go for a term as lonjr :;s that of the
public school provided in the district
in which the child resides. Attend
ance records must be kept by that
school and it must make reports of
that character exactly as the public
schools. If it fails or refuses to keep
these records attendance on these
schools shall not be accepted in lieu
of attendance on tne. regular schools.
Instruction by private tutors will be
accepted if his qualifications arc ap
proved by the county superintendent
of schools and the State board of
examiners. The time of such instruc
tion must equal that provided by the
public schools.
"The next most important feature
of the rules issued is that irovernmir
the excuse of absences. The teacher
in charire shall have the riu'ht to ex
cuse pupils for temporary absence
for the following reasons:
"1. Illness of the ch id that inca
pacitates the child from attend nir
the schools, but a physician's certifi
cate must attend the child if it is con
tinually absent for illness. In cases
where it is inconvenient to get the
certificates the teacher must investi
gate the illness and if dissatisfied
with the evidence of lllr.css must re
port the cases to the county health
officer.
"'2. Illness in the family where it
is apparent that the child's services
are needed in the home and wherever
there is danger of spreading conta
gious diseases if attendance was not
interrupted.
"3. Death in the immediate family.
Premiums Given Away in Caldwell County
In introducing a new line of shoes we are going to give away absolutely free---in Caldwell
County One Thousand $1,000.00 Dollars in Cash Premiums. This is an Exceptional Offer
made on an Exceptionally High Class Line of
Men's and Women's Shoes
In addition to buying your shoes at about cost of production we give with each pair soldfor the first
5,000 pairs in Caldwell County a number ranging from one to five thousand. When the five thousand
pairs have been sold we furnish the clerk of your court, or your banker, with a duplicate set of num
bers and instruct him to place them in a box in the presence of witnesses and from this box let
a child with bared arm draw Twenty-Two numbers. To the persons holding numbers corresponding
to the numbers drawn we give:
For First Number Drawn, Cash $ 500.00
For Second Number Drawn, Cash 250.0-)
For next Five Numbers Drawn, $25 Each 125.00
For next Ten Numbers Drawn, $io Each 100.00
For next Five Numbers Drawn, $5 Eac.hi 25.00
TOTAL PREMIUMS GIVEN $1,000.00
$1,000.00 Given Away for a Name
With every pair purchased before January first 1920 we give the purchaser a right to submit a
name to be used for the brand of this line. To the person submitting the name chosen we
will give $1,000.00 in cash
For Catalog and Full Information address,
V. E. BALLOU, Southern Manager
"4. Quarantine in which isolation
is the order of the local or State
board of health.
a. Physical incapacity, which
shall be interpreted to mean that
such defects mak eit difficult for the
child to attend school.
"6, Mental incapacity, interpreted
to mean feeble-mindedness, or such
nervous disorder as to make it either
impossible for such child to profit by
school or impracticable for the teach
er to instruct properly the normal pu
pils of the school. In such cases the
defects are to be reported to the
proper authorities for treatment.
"7. Severe weather that is danger
ous to health or safety of the chil
dren. "8. Distance from the schools; two
and a half miles from the nearest
school being considered an excuse for
absence, it will be the county's duty
to furnish transportation.
"t. Poverty is an excuse, but it
must be reported, such indulgence to
be reported to the county superin
tendent of public welfare. In some
ea-es of this character the county
board of education may order aid to
the family from the incidental fund.
"10. The completion of the course
of study in the district shall be an
excuse.
"More difficult to regulate is the
section of the compulsory act which
provides that 'the immediate de
mands of the farm or home' in sev
er.;! sections of the State shall in cer
tain seasons of the year be a cause
for non-attendanee.
"The State board of education,
realizing the difficulty of administer
ing this feature from Raleigh, leaves
to the county boards unt.l further
notice. It recommends that where
the lit mands of the farm are serious
enough to require the immediate ser-
vices
I'illlll
nt tne
he child and such assistant'
obtained elsewhere, and
where s.c.ttiess m tne nonie or otner
1
causes calls for the child because as
sistance cannot be gamed otherwise,
the county boards may excuse. Very
broad powers are conferred on them.
A fall report on each a". ! every case
arising under this section must be
made to the State superinten.ient in
order that the State hoard of edu
cation may determine to what extent
thi ect.on of the law s appealed to.
"The lOiumiss on suggests in cer
tain places in which farm ng ',!:. I:
t.ons demand the work of children at
th,
regu.ar
school hours schools
might o: en an hour earlier and
.lose
about noon or 1 o'clock.
"Defining truancy is likewise a
hard job for the comm'ssion. hut it
makes ;t as easy for the layman as
nos;!ile by holding that willful ab
sence from school one day is truancy.
The parents will be tirt apprised nf
this conduct, and if it fails to bring
re-uits reports will lie made to the
attendance officer. The cause will be
investigated and if this willful tru
ancy continues the child will be car
ried before the juvenile courts, which
have jurisdiction in such cases.
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"There are other causes which may
take the offending; child before the
juvenile courts. When the conduct
of the pupil is such as to menace the
welfare of other children at school
the offender becomes a case for the
courts. - :
"The. county superintendent of
public welfare is the chief attendance
officer and enforcement of the law is
in his hands."
WHEAT DEALERS ARE PUT UN
DER LICENSE
Julius Barnes, United States wheat
director, announces that President
Wilson has signed a proclamation
putting under license of the wheat
director persons, firms, corporations
and associations dealing in wheat,
wheat flour or baking products manu
factured either wholly or partly from
wheat flour. The only exceptions are
farmers and small bakers.
The proclamation, which goes into
effect July 15, applies to the "busi-j
ness of storing or distributing wheat, I
or manufacturing, storing or distrib- 1
i uting wheat flour," as well as to the 1
manufacture of bread or other bak
ers' products, either wholly or partly
from wheat flour. The exceptions
are listed as follows:
I "(a) Bakers and manufacturers of
' bakery products whose consumption
of flour in the manufactu.c of such
products, is, in the aggregate, less
than oO barrels per month.
"(b Retailers and farmers or co
operative associations of farmers or
other persons with respect to the
products of any farm or other land 1
owned, leased or cultivated by them."
Common carr.crs are required to
secure on or before July la a license
from Mr. Barnes "in such form, un
der such cond.tions and under such
rules and regulations governing the
conduct of the business as he may
from t.me to t.me prescr.be."
The proi tarnation states that "any
per-cn, tirm, corporation or associa
tion, other than tho-e hereinbefore
excepted, who shall engaoge in or
carry on any business above specified
after .'uly 1 ." without first securing
such l.ct'nsis. or shall carry on any
such bus.:ic.-s while such license is
sastvn.lcd. or alter such license is re-
c1m.I. ha!! Ie 1 ..!!e to tile pcnalt.es
proi Tilled by law."
IS CETT1NG MORE THAN HER
SHARE OK BENEFITS
It :s reported tiiat a negro woman
is driitv.ng three jiaT.aO clocks from
; tile government each month for the
of three husbands during the
war. Amanda Jones' lir.-t husband
died of spinal nieti.ng.t.s soan after
' filer ng the service, having taken
; out .ln, ooii ir.Mir.inct. The widow
Jones then married a man named
i Smith, who was killed in action, he
j al.-o having taken the maximum life
j insurance policy. Amanda Jones
Smith then married a returned sol-
j ilhT, who died of
j named the widow
I surance policy.
influenza, having
in a $10,(100 in-
ATTORNEY GENERAL DECIDES
END OF DEMOBILIZATION
It is stated from Washington that
the attorney general and not the war
department will have to advise Presi
dent Wilson when demobilization of
the emergency forces has been com
pleted. .
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