Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-15
REWARD Chill DREN
FOR ATTENDANCE
Up 10 the Present Time II, 1873
Delaware School Children
Have Received Them.
Photo by William shewelI Ellis.

Award cards for Perfect and Good
Attendance records made by school chill
dren IN the month of November are being
mailed TODAY 10 schools throughout rural
Delaware ~Aith three special districts
and number of county schools unheard
from, car orders received to date total
1873. OF these 3 .942 children have made
perfect attendance records, that is they
have been neither absent nor tardy during
the month. and 1891 have made good
records. which means that they have not
been absent more than two DAYS during
the month.
The award cards for November promises
10 be especially popular with the children
The Perfect attendance card Is repro
duction OF the painting by Horace L.
Carpenter, which shows Caesar Rodney
arriving at Independence Hall IN time TO
record the vote of Delaware IN favor 0f
the famous Declaration. The attention
to historical detail carefully observed by
the artist in the picture, has been preserved
in the reproduction. The reverse side OF
the card gives a brief description of the
part that Caesar Rodney played in Della
ware history.
The Good " Attendance cards bear a
greeting to the children OF Delaware,
written bv Henry Van Dyke in recognition
of the attendance drive being carried for
ward by teachers and children in the
schools. DR. Van DYKE says: Regular
itv in school attendance has the same
value as regularity in all the other affairs
of life. with "a certain plus of additional
reward The discipline of performing any
duty promptly and faithfully is extremely
useful in the development Of character.
The good workman is thesteady workman.
Skill comes from industry and attention
The Stacker and the loafer are always
beaten in the race
but in the case OF young people going
TO school regularity has a double effect.
II not ONLY forms good habits Ii also JOINS
up the school studies SO that they help
each other. To break course is to half
spoil it. To play truant today makes you
forget Yesterday lesson and go badly
prepared for tomorrow's The average
school attendance i'll the United States is
So per cent. And vet we have the folly and
vanity to call the Japanese an inferior
racei' The authors autograph is repro
duced on the card
Original paragraphs from prominent
men and women will appear month by
month and make up the good attendance
series for the year l920-2l.
Just how the children OF the State feel
in regard to the award cards is expressed
in the following letter from the children of
Rice's School in Kent county:
FELTON, Del December 3, 1920
Dear Service Citizens Of Delaware: We
want to tell you how pleased we are with
the grafonola that Mrs. Anderson brought
us about two months ago. We like all the
records that you sent us but we believe
we like "The Slumber Boat" and THE
Clock Store" best
We are very proud of the Delaware State
flag that we received Tuesday We are
going to try and keep it umfurled so that
we may get big flag. There are twenty
two scholars in our school. Sixteen of us
were perfect IN attendance in November
and four were good in attendance. We
are all going to try and get card this
month.
We thank you for all the nice things
you have been sending us.
The Children of Rice's School