The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-08-23
Exchange Your School Books Now.

State superintendent of public instruc-
ton, j. H. Ackerman Of Salem, while
ON his way to Eastern Oregon, spent
Wednesday in Hood River with County
Superintendent Gilbert. In CONVERSE
tion with the Glacier reporter, Mr.. Ack-
erman gave out the following informa-
tion regarding the new text book law:
Circulars are now in press for the
county school superintendent for dis
tribution among the school officers of
the state. These circulars, which are
supposed to reach each OF the four
school officers of each school district,
will contmn the names of the books, the
kind Of bindings, copyrights, exchange
price, Introduction price and retail price.
They will also contain that part OF the
contract with the publishers explaining
the meaning of exchange, introduction
and retail prices. The circulars will
contain a list OF the repositories in the
state--the towns in each county where
the new school books may bepurchased.
Bpt il will not contain list of the
dealers who will handle the books. The
state board names the places and the
publishers name the dealers. Most,
ii not all of the publishers have agreed on
the J X. Gill book company Of Portland
as the distributing agent for the state (;
hence all inquiries on the part of dealers
for handling the text books should be
directed to this company.
''ln my opinion, it would be best for
the school boards to adopt the new books
for use at once, in order that they may
be able to secure the advantage OF the
exchange price. Ordinarily, pupils pur-
chase their yearly school books in the
fall and as the exchange price cannot
be taken advantage of after January ],
1902, it is evident that ii the school
boards take the full limit Of the law
10 months after the adoption-for the
introduction of the new hooks they
would lose the privilege of disposing OF
the old books by exchange.
"The superintendent OF public instruc-
tion will issue circulars to teachers eX-
planning the distribution work of the
several text books among the several
grades, This will contain the list Of
text books recently adopted, and copies
of either one of the circulars may be Sc
cured by addressing the county school
superintendent, as the circulars will be
placed in his hands for distribution"
Mr.. Alderman was on his way to at
tend the county institutes at Union and
Lostine. Speaking of the recent legis-
lative enactment compelling the attend
ance OF teachers at county institutes,
Mr.. Ackerman said:
"The district school boards are becom-
ing especially interested in teachers in
stltutes. Ii Il teacher whom board
may employ, holds no certificate of at
tendance at county institute, the dis
trict in which such a teacher is hired
will lose S. of the county pportionment.
The amount is small, but it causes the
boards to put very searching questions
to the teachers as to why they do not
attend teachers institutes. Teachers in
the habit of attending do not object TO
the law in the least. Others may ques-
tion its utility"
superintendent Alderman attended
the meeting of the national teachers as
sociation at Detroit, this summer, and
he is quite sanguine over Portland's
prospects of securing the next meeting
OF the association. The matter rests
with the executive committee. and their
action will depend largely upon what
the Portland people do in regard to fur
nishing the necessary funds places OF
meeting, etc. The association asks for
free headquarters in the best hotel in
the city, free hall for place of meeting
and about $l2 900 for expenses, About
10000 teachers would attend the con-
venton.