Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
ISALE|M IN LINE FOR
TRADE SCHOOL NOW
District Is Believed to Have Over
10000 Inhabitants Required for
Such Institution.
SOMETHING ABOUT WAY
OF REGULATING SCHOOL
Board of Education given Latitude in
Establishing Institution and
Educating Girls.

According to an unofficial census of
School District No. 23, Salem is in line
for the establishment and maintenance
of trade school for dependent girls
as provided for in Chapter Al of the
1913 session laws passed by the last
legislature. The latest census gives
school district 23, or the Salem school
district, little over 10000 inhabitants
and the law provides that any school
district containing 10000 inhabitants
or over, may provide trade schools for
the training of dependent girls in in
dustrial arts as a part of the common
school system of such districts, and to
provide for the care, support and main
tenance of such girls during the period
of their said training and to pay the
costs and expenses thereof from mon.
eys derived from taxation for common
school purposes.
Board Has Charge.
Under the trade school law, the
board of school directors will have
charge Of the trade schools. The law
says, in part:
The school board Of school districts
within the state of Oregon containing
10000 inhabitants and upwards, are au-
thorized to provide for the training of
dependent girls and to care for and
educate them for period not
exceeding two years. Said school
board is authorized to acquire such
property, real and personal, as may be
necessary and convenient for conduct
provide for such girls for period not
ing said trade schools and for the
proper place of abode for the pupils
thereof, and are authorized and direct
ed to provide sufficient and wholesome
food and necessary wearing apparel,
and to completely care for, support and
maintain the pupils of said schools dur
ing the period of their attendance and
to provide everything necessary to car
ry out the purposes of this act.
18 Years Limit
Any girl between the ages of four
teen and eighteen years who is a de-
pendent child within the meaning of
the law, shall be deemed a subject for
the trade schools. In extraordinary
eases wherein a girl under fourteen or
over is years of age is seriously in
need of aid to prevent hardship, the
school board may use its own discre-
tion and admit such girls in dire cir.
cumstances.
The school board may prescribe the
course Of instruction to be given at the
trade schools, and make and enforce
such rules and regulations pertaining
to the conduct thereof and the disci.
pline Of its pupils, having in view the
enabling of such pupils to become self.
supporting and useful citizens at the
earliest time compatible with their well
fare and that of the general public.
A committee of three or five may be
appointed by the school board to serve
without compensation The commit.
tees duty will be to examine and pass
upon applications made for entrance in
the trade schools and will have the
power to reject or accept such appli.
cants at their pleasure.
Board Custodian.
Under the act, the school board will
have the care and authority of every
girl during the entire time she is in
attendance at the trade schools, and
each member of the board will act as a
guardian Of the person of the pupils.
The board may use its own discretion
as TO what rules to be laid down in
conducting such schools and will have
authority TO supervise the conduct of
the schools in every particular.
All costs and expenses incurred in
carrying out the provisions Of Section
Al, will be paid out of the common
school funds to which under the laws
the district in which any trade school
is established.
Would Be Valuable Asset.
In the event trade schools, as pro-
vided by the late law could be estab.
lished in Salem, it would be a valuable
asset to the city, according to County
Judge Bushey. The cases of dependent
girls especially, are increas.
ing to an alarming extent and the court
is experiencing much difficulty in To-
eating the proper homes for them.
If Salem had trade school, these
dependent and delinquent girls could be
well taken care Of with very little trou-
BILE and the juvenile court could be as.
sured that they would be properly
cared for and trained.
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