Evening star., 1924-04-20

occasionally deeply stirred by changes
A Change of used in the pubic
Text Books. schools for at that
time and for many
years afterward the school books
were bought by the pupils parents
and were not furnished, as in large
measure is the case today, by the
District. Hence, when a change was
ordered a heavy cost :ell upon the
people and loud clamor arose in
consequence. Such protest is voiced
in The Star of April *. 1874, as fol-
lows:
by the report of The proceedings
OF the school board last night it win
be seen that the boast o. the book
publishers drummers and lobbyists
now gathered here that trey hau
fixed things for another change OF
school books was we'll founded. The
project was carried out precisely
upon the plan of tactics stated IN
the expose in this column on Monday.
The preliminary move was for a
change of Biographies, without deSig-
mating the one TO be substituted. the
publishers making common cause to
effect this and agreeing to fight ii
out amongst themselves as to whose
geography shall take the place Of the
one ousted The main force Of the
lobby seems to be employed, how
ever. in behalf Of the publisher for
whom Col. Stocking of New York
customhouse fame appears, and il is
pretty evident that his book will he
selected to the disgust OF the other
parties to the combination. Those Of
them. however. who ublish other
text books besides Biographies may
get their share OF the pfunder when
the system Of changes in regard to
the rest of the books is fully carried
THE book displaced last night was
CornelFs Geography. There is no oc-
casion for sympathy, however, with
the publisher of this geography on
his defeat as his book was thrust on
the schools only few months ago by
the same system of drumming and
lobbying that has now been brought
other change We protested in be-
half of the yictimiZed parents against
the change when CornelIs Geog
raphy was substituted for another
quite as good, made for no satisfaC
tory reason outside of the interests
of the competing publishers. r
These changes of school books,
occurring at constantly diminishing
intervals. are an outraga upon par
ents. and it is quite time that some
check should be put upon the prac-
tice. As we have already suggested.
law similar here to that proposed
in some Of the states, forbidding Il
change of school books oftener than
once in five years. would afford a
remedy. 1t would at least secure that
interval of relief from The raids OF
the book fiends and their drummers
and lobbyists"
An impressive service occurred in
this city April II, 1874, according to
The Star of the fol-
AoIchzo LOW lowing day, when
pa;n4arrad the remains of To-
renzo Dow, IA
| nous preacher OF the latter part of
the eighteenth and the early part OF
the nineteenth century, were rein
| TERED from the old Holmead Gene
terry, at the corner of goth and Bound
ary streets, which had been con-
demned, to Oak Hill Cemetery. Meth
odist clergymen of the District offici
] ated at this burial service, forty
| years after the evangel!s. had been
laid to rest. The Stars account says:
The surviving relatives of Lorenzo
| the board of health of this city had
condemned the Holmead buryinS
| ground addressed a letter % Prof.
| Loomis, whose mother was cousin
| OI Ite OtCedSeu, dShtIB HlIl " ldht
charge of the remains and forward
them to Connecticut, to be deposited
| by the side of Harlan Page-Who held
| a similar relation to the Presbyterian
| Church as that held by Lorenzo Dow
| to the Methodist-and Nathan Hale,
who was hung by the British for his
| fidelity to the American church and
institutions. Measures had also been
| taken by these relatives to erect a
monument over his grave, but k In
not yet decided whether the remains
will be removed from this District"
| Among those present at the cere-
mony at Oak Hill were Rev. f. ID.
| Owen, chairman of the committee on
removal: w. w. Corcoran, donor of
| the new burial site; Rev. j. w.
! Speake, presiding elder of the Wash
| inSton district: Rev II. A. Cleveland
| of Foundry Church; Prof. Loomfs, !
| whose mother was first cousin of
Lorenzo Dow; Mr.. Reardin, F. G. Cal
! vert, w. II. Womersley. 3. F. Mofitt.
J. B. Hines and members of the Ma
sonic fraternity.