Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1913 — School Book Concerns Are Looking for Business. [ARTICLE]

School Book Concerns Are Looking for Business.

The last session of the Indiana legislature passed a great many laws pertaining to educational matters. No law of greater importance to the people of the state was passed touching education than the one making the text books'in the high schools of the state uniform. While the selection of the text books primarily is placed in the hands of the state board of education, yet this body has placed the selection of the books to be used in the hands of several committees, eight in number, each committee to look after the books in each subject. There are seven members on each committee, chosen from the leading educators in the state. These books so chosen shall be the ones to be used in that particular subject in the high schools of Indiana for a period of five years. The different school book concerns of the country, therefore, are represented in Indiana to a degree of efficiency never attained before, because the books chosen will have a complete monopoly for the next five years to come.

There are sixteen of these concerns in Indiana at the present time, and several .representatives from the different houses have been in Rensselaer of late trying to crate a demand for their particular book.