Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-04-11
measure. and the principal means Of

measure. and the principal meKns Of
securing the enforcement Of the law
and OF requiring the attendance up
en- school of that class of children
which constitutes the largest percent
age OF those who do not attend is con-
tanned in the following provision:
THE board of directors of any school
corporation may establish truant schools,
or set apart separate rooms IN any public
school building, for the instruction of chill
dren who are habitually truant from in
struct1on, as contemplated by this act.
Such directors may provide for the conflne-
ment, maintenance and instruction of such
children in such schools, under such rea-
sonable rules and regulations as they may
prescribe. If any child committed or sent
to the truant school shall prove insubordi-
nate and escape from such school during
echool hours. or absent himself or herself
therefrom without the consent of the per-
sons In charge thereof. then 1t shall be the
1uty of the person In charge of said school
with the consent of the parents or guardian.
10 ME Information before the Judge of a
court of record. who may, If the charge be
round to be true and the said child be in
corrigible. disorderly or habitually vagrant,
commit such child to one of the Industrial
schools OF the state, under the same pro-
iceeding as is provided by section 270S Of
the code, SO far as the same NAV he. an
plicable" -
\Prepare for Contest.
The educational institutions of the
state will spend the next two years
IN preparing to contest with its advo-
Gates in the legislature the proposal
to create board of control to manage
the educational institutions. The bill
to this effect introduced in this gener-
al assembly has been laid over because
of the lateness at which it was intro
duced, but the committee to which it
was referred recommended that the
matter be taken up.again early in the
session of the Thirtieth general assem-
biy, and undoubtedly this will be one
OF the principal contests in that
legislature. The educational institu-
tons are bitterly opposed to the
proposition, because they believe that
placing the institutions on purely
commercial basis would be their ruin
as educational factors.
Soldiers Money.
The new law upon the disposition
OF the pension money of soldiers who
are members Of the soldiers home at
Marshalltown was drafted by Sena-
tor Classen and was not opposed in
the legislature. 1t disposes of ques-
ton which has agitated the trustees
of the home at Marshalltown, the
state board of control and the grand
army department of Iowa for great
many years. The law provides that
in case the pension money Of mem
beers of the home shall be deposited
with the commandment on account of
infractlon of rules by members it
may be paid out for other purposes
than for the necessary needs Of the
pensioner. Under the provision
which required the money to be paid
out only for his necessary wants It
was impossible for him to secure at
any time a refund of the pension
turned over to the commandant. I'm
der the new law, if he is found
worthy, he may have more than one
or two chances under the rules. The
new section relative to the DISPOSE
ton of the pension to the families
Of members of the home is the inn
portant one, and is as follows:
oEach member Of the home who receives
pension. and who has wife or minor
children, shall deposit with the command
ant forthwith on receipt of his pension
check one-half of the amount thereof.
which shall be sent at once to the wife If
she be dependent upon others for support,
OF, If there be no WIFE, to the guardian of the
minor child or children. II dependent
upon others for support. Provided. how
ever. that the commandant, If satisfied
that the wife has deserted her husband, or
Is OF bad character, or is not dependent
upon others for support, may pay the
money deposited as aforesaid to the guar
dian OF the dependent minor child or chill
dren."