The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-02

distant cites says The 3ntellisen-
one OF the sophlstries by. which
pscple excuse the habit Of buying
icptside Of heir home community, 4
that such goods can be had at q
lover price. Stop and think a mo.
mstt, however. Of the cost Of the
pains which tie home store takes
to please the home public, which s
essentially guarantee Of the value
Of goods. When you have any real
good reason for feeling that goods
are mot what they were represented
70 be !, it is generally customary for
home stores to take the article and
give you your money or at least a
credit. =
The store located at distance
may or may not be willing to take
back unsatisfactory goods, Even If
It is, the bother OF a special trip to
the store, or the extensive CORE
spondence needed to do the business
by mail, VIII probably be much
more than any saving that
could have been made ON the
original purchase price. Hence the
distant store Is largely saved this
expense.
The practice by which the home
merchant practically guarantees the
value of his goods Is a great safe
guard to the buyer. Bnt It costs
money to the merchant, and is a
part of the expense of his business.
The principal difference comes
when the home merchant buys his
goods. He knows that he must have
good quality, that will keep his Gus
toners satisfied, and never in the
world canyon get good goods with.
out paying good prices. Were he
less close to his customers in a
position where he. would not often
be compelled to back up his. wares,
he could cut prices much below. their
present level. But does It pay to.
buy goods where the seller does
not expect to be called on to back
up their-value?
Text Rock library
How many school text books are
there? Counting separate titles
only, DR.. John W. wolcott, librarian
of the United States Bureau of Ed
ucation, estimates that at.least a mil
lion have been published and las
many Of these have been lost owing
to the, means of preservation, DR..
Wolcott has Just Established a spe-
cials text book library in addition to
the bureaus regular pedagogical IT,
brary. ~ .;,
NY estimate as to the number Of
text, books issued since the invention
ot5theJ art ofprinting includes both
school and college text books said
DR.. Wolcott yesterday, ibut does not
lnelude the work of races other than
the White race. There is no way
eyehSS.to guess at the number of
manfscript text books used, by the
alcIsnts and the peoples oftthe East.
Tits estimate, moreover does not
include separate editions of rsyisionsI
Of the same text book. tive COULD
tigtE5eS works like the oldr webster
spelling book, which has run into
hundreds Of editions, on the basis OF
reprintings rather than titles q
should have to raise my estimate
c9asiaerablly. So
"qn looking into this matter of
text book publication, found that
many important and at one time
valuable works OF this character had
entirely disappeared, owing to the
utter lack of means for their2preser=
walton, so i have decided to establish
an additional library at the bureau
Of education, that will be. devoted
simply to the collection and preser-
walton of text books. This special
library was founded about three
years ago. Already it numbers six
thousand volumes, nearly all of
which represent the voluntary gifts
of friends, the bureau having OBJ
the books with NO greater
outlay than the government frank
which is sent to the donors for the
purpose of getting the books
through the mails.
'TWhile this indicates pretty rapid
collection, at the same time we could
continue at the rate of increase for
forty years before even approxi-
mately catching UP with the aggre-
gate number of text books put out
since the printers began work, the
Bureau of Education would be the