Because Mrs. Belle Steed of High Point seemed sorry that she slapped Mrs. Blanche Carr Sterne, county welfare officer, when the latter visited her to ask why Mrs. Steed’s children were not sent to school, Mrs. Steed, found guilty of assault on Mrs. Sterne, was allowed to go under a suspended judgment on the condition that she send her children to school.
Trial of the case occurred in High Point Friday in Municipal court. Mrs. Steed was tried on two charges: violation of the compulsory school law and assault upon Mrs. Sterne.
Mrs. Steed, asking for another chance, promised to obey the law. She admitted that she struck Mrs. Sterne and that she had not sent her children to school as the law required.
Mrs. Sterne, who attended the trial with several county officers, asked Judge Walter Royal, before whom the hearing was held, not to be hard on Mrs. Steed and not to fine her heavily. The welfare officer regretted, she said, that an arrest was necessary, but the school law had been violated. She was averse to having a warrant sworn out against Mrs. Steed for the assault, but county officers insisted that it be done, as Mrs. Sterne is an officer of the law.
The trouble occurred on February 23 when, Mrs. Sterne having gone to the home of Mrs. Steed at the Highland Cotton mill at High Point to see about the failure of her children to attend school, Mrs. Steed declared that there was nothing in the (word obscured) about compulsory school (words obscured) and, after a wordy attack, slapped the welfare officer.
From the front page of The Greensboro Patriot, Monday, March 6, 1922
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