The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-07-14


advanced arithmetic
i. cents in the second list
- b the old list and is a re-
FER comparison would be:
s. = = Went. Arith., Ele.. .. .22
{, I'D Went Arith., Adv. .. 40
bid Milne Arith., Adv.... Al
s .. -. -. -. -. -. ...Sl.03
new Milne Arth., Ele.... 81
, new Milne Arith., Inter-. .36
i readopted Arth., Adv. Al
Eal. -. -. =. %. 81. .09
IS makes the increase price onlS
Cents. A change in the two lower
hmetics was considered advisable,
ee in the judgment of the board
Bgy were out Of date. Such being the
Ease, the adoption of the Milne was
hogical, inasmuch as the advanced
dilne was already on the list and the
khole series was already widely used
b the Independent schools of the
eate.
Saving to the State.
n Those who have commented on the
of the adoption have overlooked
positive fact that this board has
eured what is confessedly the best
eontract ever obtained from the pub
4 fishers in this country. For we main
eain that the credit for this contract
His due to no one man, but that the
Rcontract was the product Of the COM
8bined judgment Of the whole board and
&Ewas unanimously adopted by it. By
this contract, for the first time in the
history of book adoptions, f@an old
book in the hand Of the chill
been given definite money value and
will be taken in exchange for any book
of a lower or a. higher grade in the
same series. By the same contract,
4 toe, the length of time allowed for
@exchange has been Increased % per
Fcent.
Both the method and the saving in
this exchange provision may be illus
trated with the readers. BY the con-
tract the old Johnson Primer, which,
when new, cost the children - cents,
has now an exchange value of IS
cents. That is to say, an old John
son Primer, and 10 cents will buy a
new Wheeler Primer, the retail con-
B tract price Of which is 25 cents. Or
the same primer and 10 cents will buy
ANEW Wheeler First Reader, the con-
tract retail price Of which is 25 cents
In the same way, an old primer may
be used at this valuation of Is cents
Ato help pay for any reader-First,
86econd, Third, Fourth or Fifth; where
hs, in the past a primer could be =x-
I&ehanged only for a primer. Further,
Y an old First Reader, which cost 20
cents when new, has by contract been
given a money value of Is cents and
may be lsed to help pay for a primer
or for any reader.
In the case of the biographies, the
old Primary Geography, which was
discarded by the board, and which cost
when new 33 cents, has by contract
been given an exchange value of %
cents, being only 10 cents less than ii
h cost when new. That is to say, any
D Primary Geography and p cents will
8pay for the new book adopted. Or the
Did Primary Geography and IS cents
wpWill pay for the new Advanced Geo.
gaphy. So, too, the old Advanced
Geography and % cents will buy the
new Primary Geography. Could any
hsone deny that money has been saved
- the State?
ny Cost to the State.
It has been claimed that the board
! by its action wantonly destroyed pro-
perty values estimated at s50O,OOO
<This sum is just few thousand less
than the cost of all the school books
bought in South Carolina during the
: years 1906-1911. How preposterous
this claim is will appear from the fol-
!. lowing:
g It assumes that all these books
even those bought five years ago, are
still in usAble form in the hands OF
the children and are now worth what
they cost when new. 1t assumes also
that if all the old books had been re-
aRdopted, the children of the State
I'd not have had to buy any new
Sks during the coming five years