Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 December 1908 — Page 8

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"jaehers' Journal Has Comprehentlve Article On Subject of Books Far Public Schccls.

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Harbison Trustee's Notice. ttntieo is hereby iriven that the unlr-

fcipnexl Trustee ot Harbison township, will attend to township basine? on eiu'h Monday ofthe year nt my oillce, ami persona having township business to transatt ate required to present it to him on Mondays. The township library will bo kept at ray lioir.fi near Dubois. John L. IIaudkh, Trustee. Jan. ', lfH33.

Jefferson Tp. Notice. The undersigned trustee of Jefferson township, Dubois county hereby pives notice that he will attend to all busines pertaining to the oflice of Tnif tee nt his 'Drttjj Store in IHrdseye Indiana on the Tuesdays of ach week und requoMp nil persons having township busines- to present it on oflice days. JOHN W. ENLOW, Trustee. Jin. 5, OS -lyr

Invltntloii. Annnnnrt'tni-nt Ktc. M In fcrlpt. two ?! il vnrulops, $2.50. lw visiting ri.nl for Boo. Writt tri. dar.

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Boone Township Trustee' Notice.

Tno undersigned, Trustee of Booni township, Dubois county, hereby eivei

notice that he will attend to all busine&f

pertaining to the office of Trustee, at hi residence, four-miles southwest of Poi

tflreville.onKaturdayeof each week, an J

requests all persons nnvlnjr townshir busineps to present it onSatuidav. Citi

tens desiring bookB from the Townsbn' r :i . f if . t ..1 TM

uiutary, ans nouiiuu mat me i-.iornry u

KJot pt my residence.

School books nt James Mulle y

a: rorterevwe. 1'ktkk J. Schnauk

Trubtee Jiooue Tf

jan. o, iws-y

Madison Township Trustee

Notice. Notice is civen that hereafter theTms

tee of Madron township will be at hit

oince eaen fcatuniay, at Iii residence

onemilo sooth-west of Ire and. Ind

for the purpose of attending to township

oiirinepH nnu an peione liavintc liusir.es-

with the township are expected to con tine it to those days.

The township library Is kMt at Pam'l

Kean's in Ireland whero nil may obtain the books.

The Indiana School hooks will be

found nt Honry Summer's.etoro at nl times. Samukl A. Glkzkn

Jat. 5, 1003. y Trustee Äladieon Tp

Journals devoted to oducation nrt 'gelt im: iutu tbe fight aguinst the 'stute laws roffiPtdllnK uuiformlty f 'book!- i!-d in the public schools The Teaches" Journal, published nt Marion. Mul. Nitd edlKNi by A. Jones, in lös hist tsue devote considerable fpace to an arraignment of tho sys tini. Following nu editorial. ,n mini l r of letters from lending educators ' all arginn-- nsainst tho uniformity 'aw j are printed. Among tfces writlers are President Kliot of Hnrvnrd Pn dent Annell of I'nlversitjr of Mi liunn Im (J Staley Hnll ot Clark l'r.i i-ity. Ur. Nicholas M Untier of

t'il.imlda. Dr A S Draper aim in. Snioi.er of N; w York. Among tin.S'jfe super nl ndents of sclioo;s xthn n prj H-nred with U'lters arf'rofs nlson of Minnesota. Bryan if Vahirj;!o i, l'h l p nf Alabama and V:iJ;i ol M2upai lu p.m. !ie ediloiinl follows: t Thr important problem in edurt

tional ciiIs in Indiana today is the text h ok problem If it wer left to the teachers and those who are directly responsible for the success of the scJiools. tho question would be quickly settled. That Indinna has an efficient system of education no one competent to judge doubts. That she hungs on to a plan for selecting textbooks that is not tolerated in n slnglo eastern state and that has been discarded In every progressive western and southern state that has tried it for any considerable length of time, is tho wonder of leading educators everywhere. The predominant ideas in education today are tho development of the Individuality of tho pupil and th adjustment of the schools to the neod of tho community. ITniform textbooks, however good, are a serious obstacle in the way of pushing these

ideas Into practice. Opens Way For Graft. The principle of state uniformity

Is undemocratic. It takos away from the citizens of a community tho right and privilege of choosing what they.

through their representatives, want. It opens a way for graft, enormous graft.

State uniformity In text books Is

not new in the United States. Tho state of Vermont was one of the curliest to provide by law that the books

should be uniform throughout tho state. This law continued in force until tho people of the state were scandalized by the adoption of a

series of arithmetics prepared by the chief educational officer of the statu and copyrighted for his benefit. The prevailing laws in all the states of the union before tho civil war left the choice of books in tho hands of the same oflicors who con trolled the schools with respect to the employment of teachers, the

studies to be pursued, tho building on

school houses and their subsequent care. Immediately after the civil war. governments woro organized in

the southern .-tales which beenma known popularly, and are now known

historically, as "carpet bag governments" The carpet baggers wore the inventors of the present kind of laws for state uniformity in school books. Scheme for plunder. The funds of certain states were appropriated and when everything In

sight was seized upon, some late comers in the struggle for plunder

originated the notion that the schools

of the state should bo provided with

uniform school books. It was not

imposed that the state shoil i buy them. That would .c n clear waste

of Tonoy that might otherwise bo obtained for the personal benefit of

the hungry olllcc holders. The pH

tiloge of selling books to the people

of tho state was to be restrlced to

one firm which should have a mon

opoly of tho trnde of the state for

period ot years.

One of the first northern states to creato a legalized monopoly In school

books was Minnesota. A law was passed In February. 1877, fixing the

prices of each book and naming ths

favored contractor. He was not

publisher and did not own a single

book;

At the end of 15 years the books

wero cast out and the people of the

state rejoiced In the freedom to select for their children, without the aid

of political state officials, such boons

as were needed In the schools System Broke Down.

A law was passed in 1S70 In the

ptate of California providing for mil

form books throughout that state

Thrco adoptions were made under

this law; but a new constitution was then enacted and under this, through

the influence of "sand lot" oratory

the state itself undertook the manu

fncture of schoolbookB which were to be sold at "cost of manufacture" to tho people nnd used unlformaly In all the schools. The books wore written

by the citizens ot the state and, not withstanding the promlso of cheap

ness, were sold at rates fully as high

tlip l.iw wMrh had cr?.r.cd a school ' louk commission County boarda of education are again the authorities i to select hooks for their schools I In 197 Kansas passed a uniform

law resembling the law or Indiana n naming a maximum price for each nook. Nearly all the hooks have been changed at each afloption. thus forcing an entire purchase of hooks each live years, and theso changes have made the cost of school books mush more than the cost of the best books in the open market. I

In 1904 Kentucky passed a law for contracting for uniform text books. This law. which is like tho laws in

ladiuna and Kansns with respect to

Using maximum price at which books must he sold, differs radically fromj the laws in those states as to the!

method of their selection. The boards; of education in each county of thej state express their choice of books j t to ho used thtoughout the state I

These ballots are canvassed and tabulated by the state superintendent j In an official capacity and the books i havlne the Greatest number of votes

are contracted for The state of Washington had ex

tierlence with uniformity and has'

gone to local selection and a choice ot hooks from all that are In publication It is notorious that at state adoptions thu character and quality are only talkod about for show. The publishers agents are present in person and by attorneys and each agent is allowed to present the claims ot his series. Each claims as much as

the- control of the English language permits Each one claims to have the host, and by the time a score of speeches have been made of about the same kind, the board has the im presslon that all the books are alike and of equal value. Book Houses Combine. The public and the agents are then shut out and in "executive session' the Jockeying and trading benin. Th chances are that some group or agents has pooled Issues and agreed secretly upon a division of the list between houses that are in the com bine. If In a board of seven the com

bine can control four votes, the deal Is sure It i3 customary at tho ou' set for the members to resolve io appearance sake that all adoptions shall be unanimous. This enables th

combine'' to conceal from the public

their votes, and the tour who ar

combined have the votes of the thre outsiders in their pockets. It also

enables th four who constitute the

combine" to divide among them

selves any Incidental Income or ad

vantage which may arlso from theli success In carrying through the scheme agreed upon.

Books adopted by a state board very seldom retain their sales by a second adoption. They are not the best books in the market and four or live years of experience of their use In tho school room demonstrate this fact. Every adoption, therefore brings a change In nearly ever- book in use. The peqplo are forced to buy every four or live years an cntirelj now lot of books for each child, ami property which has cost the people ot the state a largo amount of monn Is rendered valueless since thes' books can no longer be used

State monopoly is no better thnu

any other kind of monopoly Fret and constant competition i the open

market and a close relation between

buyer and sellor is the most economi

cal metnod of supply for any nrtlcip

and school books are no exception Favors Home Rule.

The law requiring teachers to use uniform books throughout a state Is

comparable with a law that should renulrc all carpenters to use uniform

tools whether they are in tho country or city factories, with this important

ilfrrf.nrp a bad school book is

worse than worthless and a really

rood hook has lasting value.

Uniformity huvs for school books

are simply devices for depriving the people of tho power of selecting their own cchool books and for placing that

power In tho hands of state political

officers. .

M'e' !"i-'MI a lav o ' t i ln . ' y In ks 17, t.ct lu' uj: f ! vl,! against It w..sir m : iht" U wutt rT"il '.l lfore an :i .,:s.n f books i K place In! um p. sied state uniformity

! law in ltS. in wnich maximum price I were ltxe.1 on each hook nnd the sev i . ... i j . . . .

t-rai twos were iu or eqiuii in !.--atid qual tv to tt:mdard books nnim-d in the law and then In general ns throughout the state At the tirst bidding the Indiana School nook Com jwiiy was practically the only bidder and the liooks supplied by that com pauy were' largely obtained from tho contractor for th. state of Minnesota 1 lit rentiers scoured were originally published for contract purposes m Cal fornla. At later biddings the recola r school book bouses have com. piel cither with special editions of Ma retard txoks or wiih books nytde ipwully for that state. It is well km wn lhat the fixed maximum price hn exclude I from tho state some f ihe best ud most popular books in pu Miration nnd changes have boon so tnqee-it and sweeping as to lie fome I t'! .lsytw to the people. T!)e let; lau r.- th4 fore provided In 1!')." tl.at all books xr'ept history, copr iooks and geographies, shall be adopted for a iieriod of 10 years. Rejected By Missouri. Th state of Missouri passed a law etaulishdinic Maie uniformity in 1 1 In llo5 an act was past, -d repealing

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