The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-08
THE PRICE WILL CONTROL
Members Of the Board Declare For
Cheaper Books.
TWO REPORTS ON THE ARITHMETlcs
The Sub commission Left the History Question
Open, so Rumor Says. The Board May
Not Decide on the Books to be
Adonted For Sometime.

In the Governors office, this morn
ing at 10 o'clock, the State Board of
Education will give the school book
agents and attorneys an opportunity
TO present the claims of their books.
The hearing will be public, and tho
sessions will be from 10 to 2, to Z and
s to 10 o'clock
All speeches are limited in time
those presenting large number OF
books for adoption Will be given
30 minutes, those presenting small
number get only 20 minutes.
The board held a meeting yesterday
but nothing it did, if it did anything,
was given out for publication 1t was
stated unofficially, however, that the
principal subject considered was prices
both those heretofore paid and those
at which books are now offered. Yes
terday afternoon, in the Attorney Cen
erals office, Lieut.. Gov. Turner and
Superintendent Toon were engaged in
tabulation and comparison of these
prices.
The board will then probably take
some time in which to make up
it's verdict on the question of final
adoption.
LAS the matter is one of great inn
portance, change in books expensive
and the adoption for five years, we
shall do nothing hastily said one
member of the board yesterday.
Another was asked whether the MEM
bcrs of the board would. as individ-
uals, consult school men and county
boards before voting on adoption. He
replied:
I'VE want any assistance we can
get, and from any source. We realize
the Importance of the matter entrust
ed to us, and we are want all the light
on the subject We can get"
A third member of the board, asked
if prices would not largely control in
the selection of books, replied:
1--WE will save the children of the
State money, or we will not adopt any
books. Either We'll get better prices
than are now paid, or there'll be no
contract made"
All of which proves the correctness
of what this paper has already several
times stated-that the price at which
a book is offered will be an important
influence in it's adoption or rejection.
graded highest by the sub-commission
will be adopted, but if the high grade
book costs much more than one of a
lower grade, the lower grade book VIII
be adopted where it is suitable.
In other words, the board announces
it's purpose to try to save every pen
ny possible for the school children of
North Carolina in securing for them
good books.
The report of the b-commissio1
opened by the board on Monday proves
the News and Observers forecast of its
contents substantially correct In fact,
in only one particular does it seem to
have been in error. No history is
recommended by the sub commission;
on this book there was much division,
and the board is left to make it's own
historical gradings
AS to arithmetics, also, there seems to
have been too wide a difference of
opinion to bridge, and so there were
two reports as to this. One recon-
mends Miners arithmetic american
Book Coz, and one recommends Went
worths arithmetic (Ginn and Com
pany)
AS previously stated in these col
umns there was a tie on Biographies.
between Maury's University Publish
ing Coz and Frye's (Ginn & Coz
Maury's was adopted as the re-
suit of compromise, it being DEEM
ed better suited to the needs of country
schools.