Show INDIANS ARE NOW PATRONS Law Compelling A Attendance Applies With Same Force as on Whites GIVES OFFICIALS GRIEF Ne Xo v Problem mi for fOI Tho ll mOe o Whom l 1011 yes I of ur School 11 s. Iu With time he opening of tho time In Tn- Tn dlan tHan rc reservation to settlement and th time tho cJ conferring ng of ci citizenship t m I o upon ullon tim the e I In mm residing there the Indians were made mall to occupy the same position before be h- fore mt tile the law as ng other citizens of or th the state and were broll brought l within all o oits ur of its provisions Included among th tile the latter was time the statute known as us th the compulsory c school law which requires that every parent guardian or OJ othe ther I erson elson having control of any child between between be be- tween 1 the thc ag ages of S on and 1 1 10 It r. r years car shall Fn fend such uch child to a public district ov or private school at I least twenty well weeks g in iii each school chool year nr unless such child ehll 1 Is taught at ut home In the branches prescribed pre pru- scribed IJ by law for or th the same ame length leng of or time required to be tau taught ht In th the district estrict school Applies With Same Saute Force Thus according to ton an n opinion written written writ writ- ten yester yesterday h by Attorney General ml M M. I A. A In to 4 answer answel an In inquiry from front State Stott Superintendent Nelson o othe of oC the tite public schools the statute coverIng coverIng cover cover- Ing compulsory education applies to tc this new class of citizens with th lne force as it tines does to other citizens anti and If it any fail fall to comply with Its UN pro pro- such persons will till be lie guilty o oa of ofa ofa a ml misdemeanor antI and subject to IHo prosecution prose prose- e- e cution cuLion and anti punishment ment Indian dl di dien en tho time same sante as white children will wll be he exempt from rein attending school only under r tIme till following con conditions That the thc they have hav already acquired 1 the the- branches of or learning taught in the public schools that lint the child is physically pity phy or ot mentally Incompetent or 01 that the services of imf such mch child are ar necessary to tl the lie support of ur a n mother or an Invalid father |