The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-29
YOUNT IS READY
WITH BOOK BILL
Darke County, Senator on
Trail Of Trust.
FOLLOWS INDIANA LAW

and Enter Publishing Business II
Necessary - Alec Fixes Maximum
Price to Parents Of School Children.
Representative Justice to Father
County Officials Measure.
Columbus, o., Jan. Ex-senator
Yount of Darke county Is author of
a bill which will be introduced In the
senate Monday, and which is expect
ed to bring on finish fight with the
Ohio school book trust, who have
been able in the past TO not only
largely control the books used in the
public schools, but to also regulate
the prices. 1t will be introduced ST.
multaneously in the senate and house,
representative Vining of Mercer
county having agreed to stand spon-
sor for the measure in the lower
house.
The bill, which is patterned some
what after the Indiana law provides
that the governor, the state school
commissioner. president of the Ohio
State university and four citizens OF
prominence actually engaged in edu-
cational work appointed by the COVER
nor, (no three of whom shall belong
to the same political party and none
of whom shall come from any county
In which any other member of the
commission shall reside or from
which any other member was appoint
ed, shall constitute the Ohio State
board of school book commissioners.
The commissioners are to prepare
compilation of a series of text
books for use In the public schools
which shall be uniform in all schools
except those in villages and cities,
and in the latter a uniform series Of
text books shall be compiled for use
In all grades up to the ninth. None
Of the books to contain anything Of a
partisan or sectarian character, and
are to be In all ways equal to the
books now in use in the schools.
Within six months after the forma-
tion Of the commission contracts are
to be let upon competitive bidding
for the use of books in the schools
for the next five years, and the price
at which accepted is not to be chang
ed during the life of the contract.
Proposals will also be received
from authors of text books for school
use which have not been published,
and the prices at which they will sell
their manuscript.
The maximum price at which books
are to be sold to the people of the
state is fixed as follows Spelling
book, 10 cents; first reader, 10 cents;
second reader, Is cents third Ieader,
25 cents; fourth reader, 30 cents;
fifth reader, 40 cents; arithmetic, In
termediate, 35 cents; arithmetic, COM
plete, As cents; geography, elemen-
tary, 80 cents; geography, complete,
75 cents; English grammar, elemen-
tary, 25 cents; English grammar.
complete, 40 cents; physiology, 80
cents; history of the United States,
so cents copy books, 5 cents.
The bill to increase the terms Of
county officials Is slated for early in
PRODUCTION In the house. Copies Of
the bill are now being sent over the
state to these officials. Representa-
tive Justice of Putnam Is to father
the measure. The bill not only pro-
vides for the doubling of terms of
these officials, but also seeks to ex-
tend their present terms two years
beyond the time for which they were
elected. For instance, it provides
that most of the officials whose terms
expire next year shall have two more
years added to their, tenure and then
they shall get four-year terms.
The officials who Will profit by the
bill are auditor, recorder, surveyor,
prosecutor, commissioners, clerk and
infirmary directors.