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Show Strange as it may seem to us many boys are seeking permits to work during dur-ing the summer in Salt Lake. Since the closing of the city schools young boys have been flooding the office of Supt. D. H. Christensen, seeking permits per-mits to work and the truant officer, Alma Clayton, is working overtime. Under the new law no boy under the age of fourteen has the right to work unless he has a permit from the truant officer certifying that he has attended school during the past term. The new law is expected to act as an important agency through which the school attendance will be increased during dur-ing the school terms. The fact that only those who have attended school the required term can secure permits to work will, it is believed, cause youngsters young-sters under fourteen years of age to be more careful and diligent about attending attend-ing school next session, that they may secure permits to work the following summer. In view of the fact that many parents count upon their younger children taking tak-ing light work in the summer months, it is believed that the law will cause them to give more attention to the schooling of the children, and that in this way the attendance in the city schools will be largely increased. The new law makes it illegal for any boy under the age of twelve years to Bell papers on the streets of the city, and Mr. Clayton announces that he proposes pro-poses to see that this provision is strictly strict-ly observed. |