People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-04
SCHOOL BOOKS And FACTS.
The Contest in Sumner County-Oth-
or Side of the Case.

the head Of Resolutions COndemning
the Werner Books" which aims TO
deceive by the most barefaced mis-
statement Of facts. As the article
was doubtless written and its inser-
ton paid for BY an agent of the
American Book Company, often allud-
ed TO as the School Book Trust, we
believe the MAIL had no intention to
misrepresent.
The resolutions purpOrting to have
been passed by the Anderson county
normal institute were prepared by a
committee of teachers, some Of whom
were doubtless simply engineering a
scheme" Buffers history, geOgra-
ply and spelling book, none of which
are published by the Werner compa-
ny, are in use in Anderson county.
and the resolutions referred to were
aimed, by teachers not into the
scheme, largely at one or more of
these books, especially the Butler his
tory which they almost unanimously
condemn.
The Anderson county Teachers
association fully discussed the books
in use in that count. last spring and
advocated the change of Buffers his
tory. The only book published by
the Werner company to which there
was any objection worthy of note was
the advanced physiology. Nearly all
admitted that the subject matter is
good, but some objected to its ar
rangement. BY giving only a part of
the list Of books in use IN Anderson
county they aim in their article pub
lished in the Daily Mail to deceive
people into believing that the resolu.
lions were passed to condemn the
Werner books. They say "The teach
erS have condemned them in the
strongest terms" This statement is
absolutely false. The resolution
passed does not name a single Werner
book, nor is there any evidence that
it was intended to apply to any
o. them. The county superin.
tendent of Anderson county prepared
and sent out a course Of study TO
school officers last year in which he
! discusses the books in use and adyo-
Gates the readOptiOl Of all the Werner
books, with the possible exception of
the advanced physiology.
The New Normal Readers and
Raub'S Arithmetics were readopted
in Harvey county last September for
another five years by vote of - to /.
notwithstanding the strenuous efforts
made by agents to displace them.
Among the cities in Kansas that have
recently adopted books from The
Werner Series we are pleased to men.
ton Manhattan, Ottawa, Neodesha,
PaOla, Galena, Columbus, Oswego,
Yates Center and Arkansas City.
The agents Of the American Book
Company have prepared and are Show
ing a Comparative Price List" in
which they quote prices on a lot of
their cheapest and most inferior
books, and compare them with the
Werner Co., prices for standard pub
locations. But few of the books on
which they quote prices are in use in
any of the schools of this county.
They compare McGuffey's readers in
paste-bOard covers with price of Nor.
NAL readers bound in cloth. They
take two books of three book course
in arithmetic and compare price of
this incomplete course, in pastel board
backs, with Raub's course in arithme.
tic, completed in two much larger
books handsomely bound in cloth.
Ask to see their catalogue and then
look up price of books in use in your
school, and compare with Werner
prices.
The Werner Company publish a
cheaper set Of books than those offer.
ed in Sumner county, but they be-
lieve the people want the very best
books, and want them at favorable
prices.
For years Sumner county has given
its patronage to the American Book
company. Many inferior and out-of-
date books are in use, and the books
in one district are different from
those in another, thus entailing a
burden Of expense on people who
move about. No effort has been
made by that company to establish
uniform series. More profitable for
them for people to buy new books on
removing into another district. Some
dealers have been allowed to charge
exorbitgant prices for school books.
The Werner Company is now offer
ing to establish uniformity of books
in Sumner county without expense to
patrons of the schools. They offer a
series of books th9t is second to none
published. as statements from lead.
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