The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-08-16


and his comrades up n the air, wait
ing TO be mustered back into service.
: ne book was the same as that then
being used by the Ocala school. When
school opened last fall. friend, know
ing we had the book, offered to buy
it. We told him he could have it as
a gift, but when he was about 20 take
i he found that the school authorities
lad adopted another. So he and the
other citizens whose children studied
trigonometry had TO buy new books
instead Of using the plentiful supply
Oh hand. Last spring, the soldier re-
ferred TO, was in one of the service
schools in Europe, and found himself
studying trigonometry in the same
EDITION Of the book our high school
mad been using before the war, and
" hich the army officers declared to be
the best.
Such is the treatment that the over
taxed people Of Florida receive from
their state school authorities.
Our county school board has moth
ing to do with the change in books
and would not make it if it was left
tC its members.
The following from the Miami
Herald, which is well posted on school
books, will show the changes to be
made:
A number of radical changes have
been made in the text books for ele-
mentary schools, according to list
just received by Superintendent of
Public instruction r. E. Hall of the
text books adopted by the state for
the five-year period dating from July
l, 1919. The new books will be put in
use at the reopening of the schools.
"Our Republic" published by Riley,
Chandler & Hamilton, which has been
in use in the schools for long time
as a history Of the United States. has
Ken replaced by Thompson's History
Of the People of the United States"
published by D. C. Heath & Co.
The Century Speller" has been sue
cceded by MASTERY of Words" by
Sarah Louise Arnold, published by the
Iroquois Publishing Company, SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
IN civil government, "Our Govern
ment," by Yocum. published by James
& Sanford, has given way to lurking
tons "My Country" published by
CHM & Co.
Duggar's book on agriculture,
which has been in use ever since ag-
riculture was adopted in the schools,
has been displaced by Davis "Produc-
tive Farming" published by the ]. B.
I q e
An effort to GUST the Wheeler read
ers, published by w. H. Wheeler &
Co., Chicago, which have been in use
for many years, and are said to have
Keen the subject of considerable crit
icism, failed, but the Wheeler books
adopted for the coming five years are
revised editions.
The exchange price on the books
row in use for the books adopted are
listed as follows:
master of Words" by Sarah Louise
Arnold: Book l (grades 1-5), list
price 80 cents, exchange price 16
cents; book. 2 (grades So, list price
81 cents. exchange price 16 cents;
bound in one volume (grades 49,, list
Price 36 cents, exchange price Is
cents.
Wheeler's graded literary readers,
eight-book series: Primer, revised
1918 edition, list price % cents, ex-
change price II cents; first reader, re-
vised 1913 edition, % cents-12 cents;
second reader, 35-17 cents; third read
Ell, 1922 cents; fourth reader, with
interpretations, 50-25 cents; fifth
reader, with interpretations, 50-25
cents; sixth reader, with interpreta.
lions, 6O-30 cents; seventh reader
with interpretations, 60-30 cents
eighth reader, with interpretations
6O-30 cents.
Thompson's "a History of the PEG.
pie of the United States: List price
81, exchange price so cents.
Turkington's "My Country" (civi
government): List price 80 cents, eX
change price As cents.
Davis Productive Farming" by
Harry c. Davis: List price 80 cents, ex
change price 43 cents.
New Frye biographies which have
a so been adopted are exchangeable
as follows: "Frye's New Geography,
with Florida supplement, list price 8;
cents, exchange price Al cents. Frye:
Higher Geography" with supplement
of resources, commerce and industrie:
of the United States, list price 81, ex
change price SO cents.
"The Winston Simplitied Diction
ary," listed at 80 cents, can be secur
ed in exchange for As cents.