The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
BOWLING DENIES
 TEXT BOOKS HIGH
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of study in response to popular demand for practicality. Of course the people in California do not get along with the list furnished by the state; they buy the needed supplementary books. Some book men state that their companies sell more books in California than in Ala bama in spite of the printery in the former, and in spite of the fact that school populations in the two are about equal. According to one high official of California the books condition there is mot entirely satisfactory" The state has enacted laws discouraging the people from buying other than state books"
 Case In Kansas
 "The report of the state printer of Kansas for 1921-22 shows that forty three elementary books and four high school books are printed by the state, sold to local boards, paid for out of local taxes, and furnished free to the pupils. The printer claims a saving of $19,- 519 per year to the people of his state that is, about one-half saved on each book. This is based on the presumption that he can judge correctly when the books are equally valuable. The state book list is very brief, making no men ton of a dictionary, drawing books nature study, supplementary readers (only one reader is provided for eacf grade), industrial arts, or study of co equations. These books must be pur chased from the regular book companies The list of books printed by the state fills page 1 of an official bulletin, while other books adopted for five-yeal period with supplementary materials and supplies fill the remaining eighty three pages People in Alabama would never be satisfied with the list printed by the Kansas printery and more thai the people of that state are satisfied Kansans are buying their best book through regular channels.
 It is interesting to note that Cali fornia did not report very enthusiastical ly about their state plan, that Ne braska and Minnesota reported that the
 want no state printery, and that low is against state adoptions as well a printeries Iowa recently fought tn
 book question out before the state leg iSlature and concluded that state adoT
 tons are a mOney-saving device agalns
 the best interests of education and tha : such adoptions belong generally speak
 ing, to the poorer sections ot tn country.
 Missouri. Mississippi. Tennessee South Carolina, North Carolina, Vii sinia and Georgia report conditions an prices similar to those in Alabama
 Georgia adopts fewer books and sug
 sests many supplementary aids. Okla
 homa buys books from the regular con
 panies, pays for them by taxation an
 furnishes them free to pupils. The leg islature appropriated S95O,O0O to ge
 the plan started this fall but one repor
 from Oklahoma states that it will tax S1, ,75OO OOO to furnish the books to 550, ,000 elementary pupils. Texas buy the elementary books, pays for them D taxation. and furnishes them to ,304 27O pupils at $13S per capita. N' 2 braska pays $1.65 per year for DOOR , furnished free to pupils. "Pennsylvania reports that they nav l no plan for supplying books. Local at 9 thorities prescribe what courses the ] wish, and pay for the books from publ l funds if they wish. This seems to | 9 the condition in most of the irene
 states.
 PrObIem Is Nation Wide