The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-10
Prices under
old law
S551,267.42

S551, 267.42 |
The result as you saving of s5s .oso o.
pupils old |
a they allowed their and
estimates this $4,000. which
low exchange 1907S shows old books turned
pupils value of $59sOO.S4 it is
estimate the loss pupils in 1861 $4,000. If
the value old books $4,000 in 1861, because
publication, and the figures it, then
publication of showing profit s2s40s4.46
shows a of s6.919.7S. However much may de-
a financial showing state
plant. must not fool ourselves longer by
latve figures and comparsons-the plant will either
save money-lose money play even am satisfied
that careful audit of the plant will show decided loss
publication of textbooks and that there pos
sible to overcome that yearly loss.
If operating original state
uniformity law. would be buying these books
under that law the prices established by that law
and be entirely of a large a
ending tax to maintain state plant This, believe.
be demonstrated easily by careful investigation
A significant thing n let
ter and that is the adoptions that be made
in 1923. He this argument against change
in the commission If the present commiss gives US
better books but at higher price, then there is
gunent for change to commission that give
the best books that be produced without regard
small saving The fact that all
to be changed in 1928 is startling. wonder if Mr..
Smith has figured displaced is
done mean the loss to pupils in the exchange for
that comes every time we make change, and also
the loss the of
agents and in the I you
considerable item Or do we avoid that loss
and keep with the books indefinitely? Taking
either horn of the dilemma, we are in a bad way.
goodness facts are that if the state will
give the publishers the advantages she
self, staxes the bonded dealer.
limited time the publishers would
glad to take the business state publication prices.
Indeed would like undertake supply these books
Kansas publication prices pub
LEGATION terms
Mr. Smith has overstated his proposition-hs pro-
spectus prosperous-it be nttingy allied with
oil booms and lost gold mines No careful business
give such claims serious attention and is unfair
to the people of Kansas have such misnformation
handed them by their paid public We
should have the truth and the whole truth and base
our actions that and not speculative statements
Now let consider system-in the beginning.
the known high textbooks. 1t in
vites publishers submit books which they
little business elsewhere. good re Il
fered-some poor will selected. must be
membered that the textbook been developed by the
publishers and largely developed United States
No state has developed of texts that have gotten
beyond the ordinary, we depend on the publishers
and Kansas is using today plates from the publishers
We the best, yet very thing kill
its production.
There today than twenty publishers supply
ing books in Kansas by contract through the
plates o School Book Commission and it does
require Trust trust" any
say anything in entire harmony with the
A short trne I read a paper before local
Rotary pointing of the fallacies of the
state publication scheme a local paper commented
effect that the story of the school book
publishers and that the printer had another
Now have both stories and challenge invest
cation to which story is fact and which is fiction
1 have been in the school book business Kansas
nearly twenty-five years and what I you
experience the interest of the trust"
in the interest my company for I change
coming which of benefit personally.
Do know that the total yearly school busi-
United States s17,OoOOo0. fraction
lie per capita, o
pupil in the grades below the high school
is only sec? 1t looks like walk into these schemes
without even considering the probable
results We now have a big plant. 1 no outcome
but to run it, but in the of good and
molly let US run it in the interest children in
school and stop this everlasting effort pub
Tic by lead pencil gymnastics There period in
child's lie when we help him by giving him
nigh grade school books only remember and
God pity the stngy soul willing to invest in
his child at that opportune time.
The bald facts that seems to know what
school books are costing at the state plant We know
what we are paying for them reports on file
money is spent. Chapter s44. Bill No s24 ses-
sion Laws of 1915 such information from the
state printer.
Yours very truly,
Fl. L. Shirer