The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-30
THE STATES
 DEPOSITORY Text Book Commission Finally Adjourns. BIRMINGHAM HOUSE SELECTED Sessions Completed Happily for All
 Concerned. State Depository to Have Charge of Subsidiary Repositories, Three For Each county--Last ssdop-
 tions Made.

In high. good humor with itself, with the book agents and the world
 in general the State Text Book Com mission adjourned late yester- day afternoon. The Commission of the books that are to be used by the public schools of Alabama; yes terday 1t selected Loveman. Joseph and Loeb of Birmingham. as the controll- CTS of the one public depository for the State. the subsidiary Repositories for the counties to be selected by Lovemsn, Joseph and Loeb.
 The last days session was a very happy one and was terminated with speeches in which the Governor and the other members of the Commission
 had part. Quite the prettiest if not. from the public point of view. the most important part of the proceedings was the compliment that was paid to Miss Bertha Perry who has worked so faith fully as a secretary to the Commission. The members just before the final good -byes were said, gave to her a handsome brooch to show that they ap- preciated her earnest efforts to help out in the arduous labors that the Commission has done. H. T. Lilo made the speech of presentation when the
 
 and his words were aptly fitted to the occasion.
 There were more adoptions yester- day, too The Rand McNally maps and charts were adopted. as were the Wor- cester Reading Charts and the World Book company's Philippine maps Two Krohn physiologies. published by D. Appleton and Company had previ- ously been selected.
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 was perhaps the greatest work, as re- gards at least one public feature that the Commission performed. Previously there had been two Repositories, one in Montgomery, one in Birmingham. Now there Is to be but one and Love- man, Joseph and Loeb of Birmingham are to be its owners.
 But One State Depoaitory. It is said that within the commits sion's deliberations there were not strong tendencies towards state de- positories but that 1t was proposed that the publishing companies should distribute their books directly to coun- ty depositories---or at least as directly as they chose. But there came into consideration the bonding of the coun- ty Repositories. and even more con- ! siderably there came into the trans action the question of the money that was paid for books and whether the big part of 1t should be dropped in dis tributing points outside or within the State. The fact that a million of dol- lars-which after all is something worth while-must be spent on the school books of Mittie May and Little Johnalbert within the four years now coming on has made innumerable book agents and lots on text book commis- | sioners sit up and take notice, and you may be sure that the paternal person
 that Mittie May and Little Johnalbert call Pepper is taking notice. too. The way the matter affects Pepper
 Is through the county depositories. The county depositories-there must be three, at least. in each Eounty--are to be designated by the State deposit | tory. and the fact that the books are
 to be distributed through Birmingham means that much of the money to be spent on the books will be left in Ala
 bama.
 Agents Are Admired.
 There has been no more delightful Book Commission than the delightful
 spirit of camaraderie that has been
 maintained between the members of the Commission and the agents of the pub
 fishers. who have been trying to get
 their books sold There has never
 been a meeting in which there was less
 suspicion of collision but there has
 never been a convention of public of- ficers and private salesmen in which | there was more real friendliness. Truth to tell the agents have been of the best They were ready to meet
 the members of the Commission and to
 meet the public on any grounds. They were men of education and culture, men
 of tact and honor. and their dealings whether in the public hearings or in
 the private companionship, won them
 the admiration of all.
 Practically all of the members of the Commission have departed from the
 city. They were pleased with their ac-
 complishments, not so much because | they were their own transactions as | because they were heavy labors honor
 ably cast aside.