Show i l V l 4 1 V Lagging Statistics V V J 3 EC Y th the statement was made by several f of the state school officers I. I that there was vs nt a teachable history of The United States in int t ue e as' as as A textbook in the schools schools' of the state es w the Beaver County News arid and arid says V i in ir corroboration of this statement 1 t. t f VVe We I wish vish it were possible for our chil children ren hI hIscha rj school 1 to have real up to d date te textbooks especially pe geographies The figures given on population production and the lit like e eare are the fig- fig of bf f e census of 1910 0 and d' d ar are y very y much obsolete solete te i it V V t For instance Detroit now the fourth city in our Jand with a population of nearly s not nit even en given iven a place among the ten largest h Many ny other things equally as absurd are are being eing t taught our our children To be sure it would be Ie impossible mp mp's s ible to tp keep the textbooks up p to to the I but twelve years behind is a little t f too o m m much h It 1 |