Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — SCHOOL CENSUS 700 SHORT [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL CENSUS 700 SHORT

South Bend Parents Seek to Evade Child Labor Law. South Bend. Ind.. Slay 13.—Men in charge of the school enumeration here have just found that nearly 70® children were missed because of a misunderstanding of the new child labor law. This measure has paused considerable confusion here, because of the large cumber of boys and girls employed in the factories. It is presumed the people refused to give their children's names to the school enumerators in order to evade the child labor acL The condition came to light in the up of the returns, and a recount may be made