Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — State Superintendent Issues Warning to All Trustees. [ARTICLE]

State Superintendent Issues Warning to All Trustees.

Agents of school supply 'houses have been • canvassing the trustees and' school boards of the state for the sale of equipment and materials for use in the vocational and industrial education work which will be started in all the schools of the state this fall. These agents have been telling the school officials that their articles of equipment have been 1 approved and adopted by Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, and the state board of education. Mr. Greathouse has prepared a letter which he is sending to every county superintendent in the state, informing them that neither he nor the state board has made any adoption of materials for the work. He says no equipment has even (been/ approved or recommended, but that 'this matter has been left entirely to the local school authorities to work out. Mr.’Greathouse tells the county superintendents in the letter that much of the work can be done at this time without any equipment and he suggests that they prevent their trustees and school authorities from entering into any contracts for equipment that will tie up the schools to any special system for a number of years, because no one now knows what will be required in the future.