Scioto County's Poor Children Not Attending School

Article taken from The Lima News, January 29, 1932

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Meet With Cabinet

Several Conferences were to be held by the governor with Adjutant General Frank D. Henderson and Commerce Director Theodore Tangemann, two of his principal associates, after which a cabinet meeting was expected to be called for next week.

The investigation of school conditions, started by Director of Education Beverly O. Skinner and Major E. O. Braught, secretary of the relief committee, calls for every school district to make a formal report of the number of children not attending class due to lack of shoes, food and clothing.

Superintendents were notified by Dr. Skinner that their reports must be in his office by Feb. 8. The inquiry was pushed with all possible speed after charges by Mrs. O.C. Bird, of Athens, that 7,000 children are unable to attend classes in 10 counties, were supported at yesterday's meeting by Scioto-co Superintendent E. O. McCowen, of Portsmouth.

"Eight percent of the school children in our county are not attending," McCowen told the governor.