The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-18
STATE WILL SUE
| BOOK PUBLISHERS
Board OF Education Finds Some
Are Not Complying With
Contracts.
NORFOLK DISPUTE SETTLED
City Docs Not Get Full Amount
Claimed as Result Of
Annexation.
NORFOLK DISPUTE SETTLED

| Suit will be instituted in the name
| OF the State on the bonds OF tho school
book publishers who refuse to 1.-Two up
| TO their contractual obligations Such
WAS tho decision OF tho State Board OF
Education at it's meeting held at the
| Capitol yesterday.
| In addition. the board ro- elected two
OF its own members, Strengthened out
Norfolk county dispute over the d.
vision OF school funds. and transacted
routine business.
Tho terms of the contracts under
| which tho publishers do business with
the public school patrons require that
inc publishers keel tpplcs of text
books at points con, lent TO the varl-
GUS public schools throughout tho State
The difficulty confronting tho State
Board is said to arise by reason OF tho
| fact hat the publishing houses, or Ger
tain among their number, fail to live up
| to this agreement, but rely on whole
sale dealers to fill such supplies when
ordered in small quantities. This often
results in the express charges amount
| Ing to more than the profit on tho ship
| mcnt OF books ordered, for which rea-
son wholesalers have sometimes re-
fused to fill such orders. the schools
| being thus deprived OF textbooks
Nes0iution Adopted.
The board therefore adopted the fol-
! lowing resolution:
! Complaints having reached the board
! that in some of the counties and cities
| of the State certain publishers who
| have contracts with the board havo not
| placed books on sale at convenient
| points for the use of tho children OF
| the public schools, as they are required
A., to do under the terms OF their con-
| tracts. Superintendent j. ID. Eggleston,
! Secretary r. c. Stearncs and Attorney
General s. w. williams are appointed
/ committee, and ms such authorized
7 and required 10 institute suit on the
bonds or such publishers. or take such
/ other course us may seem to them best
TO enforce tho provisions OF the con n
tracts in regard TO the supply and cx-
change OF books in the public schools"
| Election OF officers.
The State Board Of Education Is COM
| posed OF three cX-oflicio members three
! members elected by tho State Senate.
and two members selected by tho board
| from the division superintendent and
associated with the body Tho ex-
! ofilcio members are the Governor the
| Superintendent of Public Instruction
and the Attorney General. The mem
| bcrs elected by the Senate are DR.. j. NJ.
i Page. OF the University of Virginia.
| Colonel II. c. Ford OF the Virginia Mil
itary Institute. and Or. J. L. Jarman.
: who WAS yesterday sworn In for his
new term. Colonel Ford succeeds Col
onel \. q. Tucker. of the Virginia Mil
tary Institute, whose term expired
March l.. while DR.. Page succeeds DR..
w. Kent, resigned. whose uncXpirod
term he was chosen to fll but who
/ yesterday began new term.
! Tho two division superintcndcnts
| elected TO the board yesterday were
/ NJ NJ Lynch and S. Il. Mochesncy, who
! succeed themselves
| The long controversy. In Madison and
tn
election OF Joseph n. Miller as division
| superintendent. The Northampton case
was not decided hut was again con-
tinued until the next meeting OF the
board.
Settles Norfolk Dispute.
The board settled difference of
| opinion which had existed between the
city and the county of Norfolk in re-
gard TO the distribution of State school
/ funds in the Tanners Creek District
/. part OF which was recently annexed to
the city Of Norfolk
J The State school funds arc sent out
in instruments. In January last the
suburb OF IIuntcrsvillc was annexed
to Norfolk. while on March 10 the
city acquired by annexation tho town
Of Lambcrt's Point. The board sly-
tanned the position taken by the county
OF Norfolk, that only that portion Of
the State school fund paid on February 0
SnOulu DC appOFtlOueu, ana TINS amount
only to the extent OF the school popll-
! lation represented in the Huntersvillo
annexation. This decision OF the board
4, gives Norfolk city only a little more
than s1,100. whilo it laid claim to
$4,000.
Ifoilius Makes Girt.
! y letter was received from IIollins
Institute Offering ten scholarships,
worth 500 each, to graduates of the
(, Virginia high schools. The offer was
referred to a committee appointed 10
decide how such scholarships should
be awarded, and to thank the authorl-
ties of iIollins for their generous
offer.
a matter OF special interest to
i teachers was q resoution submitted
4 by Secretary Stearnes and adopted by
the board. providing that all teachers
holding full first grade certificates
4 from the Board Of Examiners should
not be required when such certificates
expire to pass an examination as for
merry. but that such certificates should
be renewed for period Of five years
from time to time, upon It's holder
giving evidence Of successful, expert
enco in teaching and by completing II
certain amount of professional work,
10 be determined by tho Board OF Ex-
eminers.
| 1t Is the belief Of the secretary or
Inc poaFd that the adoption of this
resolution, for which he is entirely re-
sponsiblc, will bring relief to many
teachers. who, in the past, have period
ically been forced to undergo the pangs
and Derils OF examinations. ..r
Stenrnes felt convinced that the OK
aminations We're largely Unnecessary,
and came to the rescue of the teach
4 crs with his resolution.
4 CHARTER ISSUED
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