The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-09-06
Children win Be Instructed Il
Buy None Of the Contested Texl.
books Pending Decision oi
Supreme Court
EXPECT CASE TO BE-
DECIDED NEXT WEEK
Holders Of 1912 Contracts Secure
Injunction in District Court
and Validity Of New AdOp-
ton is Upheld

According to announcement made
by supt. Ramey today. the children
Of the public schools win be instruet-
ed to purchase none Of the textbooks
which are in controversy until a de-
cision is rendered by the supreme
court On the pending case. The case
comes up September 8 and ii Is ex-
pected that it viii be decided the lat.
ter part OF next week. In the mean,
time, the schools will get along with
the old books and with those concern.
ing which there is no litigation. Def
n'te instructions In regard to buying
books viii be given to the children
through the teachers when the schools
open Monday.
I'VE are making our fight in the
open, said w r. Norris, representing
the Atkinson. Mentzer Co., Chicago.
who was in the city yesterday and
al We ask is fair play. The company
represented by Mr. Norris has the 1912
contract for drawing books and its
geometry was re-adopted. I'VE feel
confident that the supreme court win
sustain our contract and We look for
an early decision. Pending decls.
ion, we agree tiat the best thing to
do is to buy none Of the contested
books. We contend that the 1919
adoption is the only legal one.
Atkinson. Mentzer & Co. Joined with
the Colonial Book Co., Allyn q Bacon.
Silver Burdette & Co, Scott, Fores-
man & Co. and Charles scribners
Sons in a suit recently brought in the
district court OF Oklahoma county
against the Oklahoma Book co. as dis.
tributing agent the American Book
co Eaton & Co., The Prang Co., Rand.
McNaliy & CO., D. G. Heath & Co.
and the Warden Printing Co, all Of
these companies being holders Of 1903
contracts, and an injunction was oh.
tanned, forbidding the sale and use Of
the 1908 books in the public schools,
the lower court uphoIding the 1872
adoption This case was appealed to
the supreme curto.
Both the companies holding the 1908
contracts and those named in the con
tracts Of 1912 have been issuing circu-
lars to school officers. A statement
addressed to county and city superin.
tendents, boards Of education and book
dealers by a number Of the companies
holding 1912 contracts, after setting
forth the facts in regard to the ntga-
tion in the district Of Oklahoma coun-
ty continues as follows:
Thus it is that each and every time
the question Of the validity Of the 1912
adoption has come before the courts
so far, that adoption has been upheld.
and the book publishers above named
and their dealers throughout the state
will if they sell such conflicting
books Of the 1908 adoption. violate the
Injunction order Of the court unless
such order be superseded in the man.
ner provided BY the decree. But even
if the injunction order should be sup.
erseded the books Of The 1912 adon
tion may lawfully be sold and used
We are advising you Of this action
50 that you may prudently govern
yourselves accordingly; and Ia this
we call your attention TO
the fact that the judgment of the DIS
triet court the effect Of such reversal
will be simply that there is no valid
adoption Of any kind, and can be none
until the lengthy process provided fof
by the statute for making a new ad0D.
tion is gone through with, and hence
our books can, without loss to school
patrons, and without the necessity 0f
change, continue to be used.