The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-22
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II Is dinetent In Oklahoma about
how The explanatloning is done IN
the lex bteks in some states 'he
explanation work Is done by the
cashirr OF Tho companies. in others
the cashier sends hts representatives
and flS talking is done by some leg
islat6r g'li0 is their attorney. Then
again this 'services' are held behind
the mahogany doors where pretty
stories are related and financial mat.
ters loom large Ike big electric
headlights on Ia the Silly might, so
io speak
But ia Guthrie the commission sits
with doors and windows open, and
$40 agents talk of books. the kind,
the make. the people VINO use, and
why they SHOULD be used The expla-
betiou fofcss of the agents narrate
of virtues aud tn3 blessings whic
should fellow the use Of their geo
rfannries and rules 10 adding inter
est Were 1t not that tbe multiple
cation tables are IN the artithmetics,
ONE listening would think finance was
not 4 part of The te xt book question,
and the oily gentleman who at first
asiounded with seeing omen doors,
WndoNs np and the commission
rfrdy TO hear some fifty Of the ninety
agents explain wherein failure TO 10
business with them would result in
Injury. never relate how a man can
DO wen foi his family by selecting
tie proper text books.
And the text book commission Is
doing little talking, To gaze az their
docile cxpfesSion. (the warlike gov
1nor himself looking meek with
liize picture expression he uses when
not hurried fcr an opinion. whilst the
explanation force is al lahorl. one
could nor tell that this text book com.
ujssicn knows there are but three
Fp8ls ia the text book wori6, with
practically the culy difference being
iH IL y0n hastily 90 business with
one you Viii always wonder why you
ala not ch ose from the other two
1t IS refreshing 10 see the Ameri-
ean Book cempany's agent look and
peri rm Ike q Sunday school teacher.
And bis Two rival concerns are repre-
saitsd b. men whom you would sur
mise left their puipits hastily and are
orrlcd about getting back mkt sum
day knowing their flocks will require
jiNir services
But this text book commission OF
Oklahoma Is here % listen. II Is com.
posed of men who can listen. and
one woman who IN early life married
an attorney and had to leare 10 lis.
ien whether agreeable or not.
The Leader IS impressed With the
2Cliousness OF selecting the text
books Tor five years. and realizes the
board must take no little into con.
Aideraron. The Leader also feels
that many OI those who are now ex
paining The merits OF their bids and
The yalue OF the text books behind
them are skilled men in educational
affairs and have much 10 say worthy
81 being heard That they are being
heard Is attesied by the text book
l.aard. whose membership is com
ppsrd Ql sQme ol The aolesi citizens
oi file state With the governor az
lead by Hrtne cf his office. The
pcrsonel oi the board Is, besides the
governor Rexorenl 4. r. Brewer,
4inihfle. Mrs Thomas G Chambers.
OKLAHOMA city; ll 3. Cullium. still
ytH. John q I&nedict, MuslIogee, J..
81 Moore. Marietta, and J. H. Barnes
Enid. That board has but the one OBJ
{ot Of doing tHe best possible with
lie threa trusts OF the United states
CI the dcliainty that these men here
lave yet told an that IS to be as
ceftained about the VI ~idngs OF the
efoat coneerDs which have for years
practically dictated to states and
smaller diyisiOns cf government how
aud when and why they could have no
say ip ihe matter OF books for the
school children
But somehow the Leader feels OK.
lhoma has bridsed the chasm and
viii he able 10 handle this as it
has % altar questions. The fact that
ninety agents are here 10 fight the
earse Is matter for felicitation.
Wien nae book concerns ask ninety
.. their best men t0 come and at-
teHd 10 ono job. It looks Ike
me SAFETY had aeen given the
public. Aud Whatever comes VIII be
done in ihe view III an ior as said
~ the teeinulur the commission
riified itself with having an done
.snt out IN the open
bhat ~ tha Oklahoma way. Che
lNay that firft asianaaed the othe
states then wen admiration, aud now
ems - pc worthy of emulation.
hiNinr u ke have done 40 more
re have as state male this book
trusi power send its men down to
guess Nhat via happen when first
ii tried Is mctal With me state where
nfflcn is always 10 be had and where
ite peeple are foolish enough q
think they can run government
without the nd % Trusts
q We win tnis aid We win Okla
hcma win have anplle star ~ hcl
crown
AnaoW presdeni Falrhank'
sn aos IS slln and .uo3le as ibe soi