The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-12
TAKE Ne PAPER MEN
INTO HIS CONFIDENCE
Agents for Text Book Companies
Have Been Hanging Around the
Capital Ready for the Big Gouge
While the School Board Was in
Session.
TIMES BUREAU
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.


indianapolis. Ind, May 1.-THE
school book men who have been hang
ing around waiting for the state board
of education TO award the contracts
for the school books for the schools
of Indiana for the next five years have
spent and are still spending much OF
their time in the hotel Hobbies GUESSING
and discussing Governor Marshall, who,
by butting into the matter. as they
put IT, has been the means of probably
saving the people many thousands of
dollars in a gouge that was attempted.
They say Governor Marshall is in
class all by himself as a school book
antitrust agitator. The governors
sudden calling of the boards attention
to the Macmillan company's contract
concerning the Tarr and McMurray
elementary Biographies has been the
chief topic of conversation among the
school book men. And, by the way,
fragments of their expressed opinions
have reached the governor.
Call Him a s'ButtInski.'
He's the damndest governor 1 ever
ran up against in all my experience
as a book man" said one of the agents
When he goes into that board of book
commissioners its like a bull going
into a China shop. and when he goes
out he leaves just about as much of a
wreck I have always been used to
treating the adoption of school book
as a sort of star chamber matter, but
this governor comes out of the room.
and when he finds a newspaper man
waiting for him he takes him into his
took place in the meeting Then.
whenever, he has anything which he
thinks ought to be said about the book
contract he calls newspaper man into
his office and tells him about 1T. He
does not seem to think there is any
thing about making a book contract
that ought to be kept quiet"
] Tells Everything to the People.
Its a different deal from any l have
ever had in the book business" said
another. Usually all the details are
looked after on the side, and the news
papers are not expected to get any
thing about what is going on until aft
er the preliminary work has all been
| done and the contract is let. Here you
have a governor that evidently believes
there is nothing the newspapers ought
not to know about it. I shall not be
surprised If he asks the board to ad-
nit a newspaper man to the meeting
next Friday. when the board is tc
agree upon an adoption"
May Enforce Old Contract.
The board will meet Friday morn
ing and will take up Attorney Genera.
4 Binghams opinion to the effect thai
the Macmillan company, supplying the
Tarr and McMuFray elementary geogra-
plies at 80 cents, can be compelled
to continue furnishing the books a
that price. There has been no suct
widespread objection to the geogra
phies that the board feels they SHOULD
be discarded, and it IS thought that any
attempt to supplant them at this tim,
with a book which Will cost As cents
when. in the opinion Of the attorne!
general. they can still be had for 81
cents. will be so daring a step that thu
board will not think of taking It.
If this board adds Is cents to TIL
cost of that book when it is know
that it can be had for its present price
the members Will have mighty har,
time explaining to the thousands 0
people who are compelled to bu,
them" said Governor Marshall. yester
day