The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-25

are criticised for allowing the counties
even TO make recommended tons. On the
other hand the chool ooasa o. or
taking from the county boards the 5rlsnt
of final adoption. n Is trying posi-
ton for the State Boa I'd. they get IN
the neck on both sides.
Second-It is elaine that books vii be
cheaper with a single list. That can
hardly be true. The large publishing
houses must have a schedule OF prices,
applicable alike to each State, and DIS.
counts are sad to be the same. Obvious
8ly. no house could have one price III
Virginia. a different one in North Carolina
ard another In Georgia. and continue n
house placed their books IN one State ten
cents less than they were getting II
another, and they sre still explaining It
az best they can. III 5E {Ei45 St 8i VI
visiting Of county committees BY book
ags hts will not be great. CnnvassiIg VIII.
M doubt. be done to considerable ex
most cases by transferring agents from
ono territory to another. AS agents are
usually on yearly salaries. the cost to
{ their houses wal. not vary mucli. Wnethe
ss tsye. labor n virginia e some 81 other.
Thlrd.-1t is claimed that the multiple
list will bear heavily on people owing
an ns pt this Is, we e1 have had the mn
tiple list for thirty years, and no great
howl has becn&h heard from the migratory
Part ou seHe who
their books. which can be done at small
loss. On the her hand, they, may not
need to change the books tall. 70 the IL
the same books. and in that case They
are at no Inconvenience. AS an OFFSET 10
the possible few OF The moving ,popM,,l va
c conn tRa as mauitude Who must suer
lively Certain thai q single list viii !S
HHlre thousands Ma C. Ivy new
arithmetic: others, wv hltn's; Others, Co.
ale list rules out all but the book named 'sd;
taught In tho schools, Necessarily, there
fore, a single Hat means some new books 9 Is
| In every school tho state overland III
set'' Of books. II the pocket books OF the
considered. evidently the multiple list
must be retained; =, j !, ! i ~ r,u,.
tiple list because It Will subject trustees
to tho opportunities OF agents. and cause
them loss q thsr time r. ays y,
trustees and their time is most refresh
Ing, especially IN view, OF a provision Of
the school law recently passed hy !! tha ma
ana ana labor in.ait TENDING meetings. visiting
q sum not exceeding FIVE dollars ~ any
one year. At this appreciation and estl-
mate Of the value OF q truAtea's time, tGey
viii not mind the little while spent, IN lis
e teninE to agents, Under the clrcunl,
stances members OF the legislature should
y ngt let consdera lion for the nterests ot
county comm tees worry them too muct'l..
They must pardon the statement, for. y
3 is true, though q dIgresspn, ! hat mel ne!'
this General Assembly nor the last one l
have passed any law which VIII add one
K dollar to teachers ga larles Or lelis l!leetl
3 the term q single day, Rv returning - -
the matter under discussion X ~ !, = y, -
/ thought there Ia danger ct undue lnM9i u
ence by agents, the state laoaLa GIN ru ~,
them out II case O. sc 1at ,,rn ~ n atIy
Reject the recon- ton Of the l %
S Sc az we'll Tor Rlehmand papers e deal
gentiy, The writer has beer! g trustee
+ aver since the Inauguration Of the public
Z school system except duTlng, the Read1r
1nster,R epublican administration. and n
ali that time there have been Two pop,
Scandals, both emanating iron. the ga GAP.
s toll and confined to State Officials lnelr
has been no breath Of scandal Or WIS,
Z per OF suspicion outside Of the capl9ol
So mi,cl. tor the objections to q multiple
4 list 5iTo give Its advantages would take
as So Ut II 6as been thrashsd over often.
II The single list has been apandoned w
States whore 1t has been tried !. J! arly 4, Y
II ieading educators declare the null iple llst
Il BEST f5r i he teacher. the school and tbe
Estate One copsid Ion Al lone ANlll ma ke