The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-06-23
lE9E u ths cov ~ y Af Y ~ ~
M Officer for the Past School
Term yoao-yoaI.

IEia.A-a s
lay A. c. Moreland.
The following are the figures
showing the increase in school at.
tendance for Bates county for the
year I02O-I02I over the school year
| I0io1o2o.
IsiAH the work of the county attend
aTlce officer had not been discon-
tinued the increase would have been
considerably larger.
| The county court assures me tina!
it did not discontinue this work for
political purposes but for financial
reasons In return, l want to assure
the court that am not preparing this
article for political purposes but to
| show that the county attendance Of
ficer has not cost Bates county one
cent for the past year but has re-
turned to Bates county more than
was collected by the attendance Off
Ger.
In this article am going to give
1.-THE facts as may be found by any
other person interested in making an
investigation.
r. have talked personally with Surt.
Ellis OF Rich Hill; Supt. Lee of But
Ter; Supt. Hoover of Adrian; Supt.
Fox of Merwin; Supt. Harwood Of
Amsterdam; Supt. B. f. Parker of
Amoret; Supt. Boyd of Foster; Supt.
Taylor of Hume and they state that
the increase in attendance has been
due. to the work of the county IT.
tendance officer. The enrolment has
increased and pupils have attended
school more regularly so these super
intendents say. Rural school teach
ers have made the same statements
as those given by the above superin-
tendcnts.
A letter from State Superintendent
S. "A. Baker says, THAT the amount
of money to be apportioned to the
schools for this year will be much
larger than ever before" In prepar-
ing this article l am not going to use
the increase as suggested by Mr..
Baker hut use the same figures as
used for the school term 1oIo-Io2o,
which was .oI8 cents for each days
attendance.
The attendance for 1910 1870 was
1850; the attendance for 1o2o-Io21
rs 1888 his shows an increase of
20, 268 for the year Io2o-Io2I over the
year IoIo-I92o Multiply 6o,268 by
.o18 and you will get $Io84.82. The
county attendance officer received for
the year Io2o-IQ2I $62I.2o. Subtract
$621.2o from $1oS482 and you will
get difference of $4,000. There
fore the county attendance officer re-
turned $4,000 more to the county
than he received.
The following show the figures for
the towns: The attendance in Amo-
ret increased from Io,262 to 25,I7I;
Rockville increased from 2o,7o8 to
2I,II3; Adrian increased from $3.50
to 43I2I; Butler increased from Io8,-.
248 to III,8II; Rich Hill increased
from 76,o4o to S6,172; Hume in
creased from 26,I6I to 34,48o; Mer-
win increased from 14,I28 to 14,24s;
Amsterdam increased from 1926 to
1884; Foster increased from 1886
to 1876. The increase of the Amo-
ret school district was 5000 days or
$Io6 50; increase of Rockville 4os or
$7.2o; increase of Adrian 4,I41 or
$4.s3; increase of Butler 2,563 or
$46.I3; increase of Rich Hill 1890
or $I82.34; increase of Hume, 1898 or
$4,000; increase Of Merwin III or
81. 10; increase of Amsterdam 3,55s or
5000; increase of Foster 2,8oo or
5000. Please remember that l used
.OI8 in figuring these amounts and
not the increase spoken of by Mr..
Baker which would make them much |
larger in amount of money received.
Again, l want to repeat that the
county attendance officer did not cost
Bates county one cent but his work
did return to Bates county $463.,2
more than was paid him, Any one
desiring to make an investigation may
get these figures and the material in
ny office or the county clerks.
A few of the so-called politicians
ire condemning me for enforcing ;nc
law. These so-ca'lHd
politicians place dollar before
everything else and next, ANYTHING to
eceive few votes. Personally, T
the welfare of the boys and
girls before any set of peanut poll
icians. Any Democrat or Republican
Who wants to vote against my inter-
.sts because the law is enforced hes
ny absolute consent. If we had
compulsory law 40 years ago, the
bench warmers" would be fewer in
EWin- Pipes,