The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-29
CHILDREN MUST
attend SCHOOL
Statewide Compulsory Law
Passed by Recent Legis-
laturc.
SATISFACTORY TO JOINER
Old Supreme Court Building
to Be Entirely Re
modelled.
SATISFACTORY TO JoYNEF
Especial to The rimcs.pispatch.


Raleigh. n. c., March 2S.-That
North Carolina has Statewide com
pulsory school attendance law that is
effective and not one that is optional
with the county boards Of education
is the construction that ]. Y. Joyner,
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton. puts on the compulsory attend
ance law passed by tho recent Legisla-
ture, which was reported to have been
so amended as to leave the whole mat
ter of compulsory attendance optional
with the county boards. His construc-
ton has the approval OF the Attorney
General. His construction Is that the
amendment that was reported to have
the effect OF leaving the application of
the Law optional with the county
school boards really permits the
boards 10 make changes I'm the ma
chinery for attaining the attendance
of all the children OF the school ages
prescribed. but prescribes that this at
tendance of the children for the four
months OF each year must be attained
In other words. the county boards can
change the machinery for attaining
attendance. but are none the less re-
CURED to enforce this compulsory at
tendance. Furthermore, an insistance
on the part Of a board of county school
Is optional with them, 1t is intimated
might result in the whole amendment
being thrown out unconstitutional
In that the Legislature could not dele
gate legislative power to the county
boards. Therefore. tho machinery for
compulsory attendance prescribed in
the act would have to apply.
The Raleigh school board is prepar
ing for the erection OF a 100000 pub
lie school building for the Glenwood
section Of the city. 1t will be of fire.
proof construction. with ten school
rooms. and of modern design An as
sembly room will DO secured through
the use of roller partitions between
two of the largest schoolrooms.
charter has been issued for the
Ocean City Corporation, OF Washing
ton. capital $4,000 authorized and
$4,000 subscribed. BY w. @. Hall. ]. r.
Stephenson ard others. for real estate
and insurance and brokerage business
An architect Is to be engaged at once
to prepare plans for remodeling the in
terror OF the old Supreme Court build
ing to adapt it for housing the Corpo-
ration Commission. Departments of Ed
ucatlon. Insurance, Labor and Printing
and Health this work to be gotten
under way as soon as the Supreme
Court and the Attorney General arc
building. which has yet TO receive It's
interior wall decorations and COM
plete complement II new furniture, es-
pecial!y for the Supreme Court and
State Libraries and Historical Commits
sion This will hardly be accom- plished
before he late summer.
S. w. >Vade, of the State Departing t
o: Insurance. is just back from Wades-
boro. where he went to appear n
witness on the part OF the State De-
partment against NJ B. Smith, OF Che
raw. S. c., charged with practicing
insurance frauds on the people OF
the Wadesboro section. 1t was found
that Smith had forfeited a $500 bond
and skipped out for parts unknown.
Governor Craig commissions twenty
six leaders among the negro race of
this State as delegates to the fifty
years' cooperative Racial Rural Con-
gross Industrial and Christian Devel
opment Association. to be held in Law
lrencevillc. Brunswick County. Va. Au
gust $40