Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1920 — ASKS ACTION TO KEEP BOOK PRICES DOWN [ARTICLE]

ASKS ACTION TO KEEP BOOK PRICES DOWN

Legal action to stop school book companies from charging more than the legal prices for their books is requested in a communication L. N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction, has sent to Ele Stansbury, attorney-general of Indiana. Mr. Hines said that all except about two book companies in Indiana have been charging higher than legal prfces for supplemental school text books. He pointed out that the companies agreed until the state department of public instruction on prices for the books and filed bonds with the department that they would live up to the arguments. „ . Now, however, according to Mr. Hines, the book companies are disregarding the agreements in violation of the law and in violation of an opinion by the attorney-general that they have no right to raise the prices on the books. Regularly adopted textbooks are not involved in the affair, but only the supplemental textbooks, many of which are used in Hoosier public schools;