With two major exceptions the law required children between the ages of six and eighteen to attend school. The two exceptions were a child who had already graduated from high school did not have to stay in school until turning eighteen; and a child who was sixteen and had passed the seventh grade was allowed to work as a farmer instead of attending school.
The law's intent was created to stop child labor, but it also caused problems and, naturally, there were those who opposed the bill...farmers and the Amish. They didn't want to take their children off the farm to continue in school. Plus they knew it meant they were going to take a financial hit...more taxes would have to be raised to run the schools.
Some also thought school would be a training ground that would teach children to be delinquents and learn bad behavior. When children were forced to attend school some families faced financial troubles because they relied on their children's income to help pay the bills.
To meet the schools needs the Legislature adopted a 3 percent sales tax that gave half of the funds to the schools for education purposes and operating costs. Question...what happened to the other half?!
1921 was the last season for the Cleveland Tigers, the first Cleveland team franchise in what became the National Football League. For the 1921 season, the name of the team was changed to the Indians, partly because it was a stock name in Cleveland. A baseball team had also used the name since 1915, additionally, the football team had three Native Americans who had been signed away from the Canton, Ohio Bulldogs.
In October of 1921, the 22nd Western Championship (forerunner of the U.S. Open) was played at the Hotel Hollenden in Cleveland, Ohio. Edward Lasker won his third title in a row and fifth in six years. Hermann Helms served as referee and tournament director.
In the following game the well known Clevelander Elliott E. Stearns (1891-1969), a corporate attorney by profession, got clobbered by the prominent Chicago master Herman Hahlbohm (1886-1963).
Elliott E. Stearns–Herman H. Hahlbohm0–1D0222nd Western Champ, Cleveland Ohio05.10.1921Stockfish 15
Symmetrical English 1.d4 f6 2.f3 d5 3.c4 c5 4.c3 cxd4 5.xd4
This is the reason the auto-annotation using Fritz has classified this
slippery opening sequence as the Symmetrical English. e5 6.f3 d4 7.xe5
Already a losing move! 7.b1 c6 8.a3 and here in the game Poliakov,Y
(2249)-Rakhmangulov,A (2401) Pavlograd 2000 black erred with the passive 8...
Be7, but he could have gotten an overwhelming edge with 8...e4 or even 8...
Qa5+ 7.b5 b4+ Also good was 7...Nc6 8.d2 xd2+ 9.xd2 a6 10.a3 e4 11.d1 a5+ Black has a significant advantage. Poliakov,Y (2249)
-Rakhmangulov,A (2401) Pavlograd 2000 7...dxc3 This move is faulty in that
it allows white to equalize. 7...d6 attacking both Ns would have been
much better. 8.a4+ bd7 9.xd7 xd7 10.b5 b6 Black will regain the
piece and be left with an excellent position. 8.xd8+ xd8 9.xf7+ e8 10.xh8 b4 Black has enough compensation for the exchange in the
form of active play. The text move threatening a discovered check also sets a
trap. 11.d1 ...into which white falls. 11.b3 renders the
discovered check harmless. c2+ 12.d2 a3 13.e4 Tricky! xe4 13...b2
is the correct move. 14.c1 xc1 15.xc1 c6 16.d3 In this highly
unbalanced material situation the chance would be approximately equal. In
Shootouts five games were drawn, but with humans I suspect the game could go
either way. 14.d3 xd2 15.xd2 and white is better. 11...f5 With
the obvious threat of 12...c2# 12.e3 12.e4 This surprising move giving up
a P would have kept his disadvantage at a minimum. The reason is clear next
move. xe4 13.e2 c6 13...cxb2 is inferior. 14.xb2 c6 15.g4 e6 16.xg7 Black's advantage has mostly disappeared. 14.f3 d2 15.g4 e6 16.a3 d4+ 17.f2 c5 18.b4 2b3 19.d3 xa1 20.bxc5 Black is better, but white
can at least play on. 12...c6 Getting his R into play. 13.a3 d8+
Here is the reason 12.e4 would have been better; in those lines
black was not able tp get his R into play with a gain of time; a subtle
difference. 14.e2 cxb2 Much the best as it brings the R into a dominating
position. 14...d3+ This is not bad. White's K can skitter away, but it is
still subject to a devastating attack. 15.f3 e5+ 16.g3 h5+ 17.h3 f5+ 18.g4 xg4+ 19.g2 f3+ Black is winning. 15.xb2 d2+ 16.e1 a5
White is out of any meaningful moves...everything he plays will lose. 17.xf6 gxf6 18.c1 This allows a mate in 13, but he was hopelessly lost anyway. b2+ 19.d1 g4+ 20.f3 d2+ 21.e1 xg2+ 22.d1 xf3+ 23.e2 xe2
White resigned. A crushing defeat. 23...xe2 24.c3 xc3 25.g1 b2+ 26.c1 a5 27.g8+ d7 28.g7+ c6 29.xb7 xb7 30.f7 b3# 0–1
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