| Show I HOOKS duty ditty or of adopting text l Important dil hooks 11 for o r the tIto publics of Ot this H ato for fr bo ho 0 next net Uvo years CIl wil will shortly shorty evit o upon tile tho county nty i Jj This function n of the tho con nI I havo very vory Important re rc results tK uj itt n the Iho progress or of the tho le car period t W Wo V that thin unction function and dutot Of Iho ho book bOk conventions has haa been 1 en eni i conservatively us UJ a tt I wisely exercised In the Ihu PMt past l w c have every reason aRon to that thaL the convention to 10 t wil will wise vise wie and out selections convention will wil bo ho b composed of or chum mel and ind women who wilt urn ro lol to 11 IKS b bc li II In and anit edu eru education eru cation t somewhat tim tho average of o county superintendents throughout the country and nd no one ole will wi be bi likely to pay FatS fl that hUlL they twy are aro lr lacking In III II character and trustworthiness The rhe members of 01 the tho convention should decide solely sol h upon the tho merits meris of oC the lie books offered d for or adoption They should hould pay Ia no 10 10 attention whatever to personal tId Issues Is Scandalous arc nrc occasionally related r by b onn one set et of gents another set flet et Imputing I dishonest or 01 unfair dealing to this or Jr that rival company Such stories aro 1 und generally Im Impertinent i always Irrelevant Ind pertinent el lent They 1 rarely rM ly the ther r whole truth oven e ei when they contain more inoru or less lesi of the tho tAct facts Such Huch a n I sub lb for aCts fa ts about the tho books booke of offered should have no 10 weight weight Hut any 11 of ot unfair dealing any at attempts attempts tempts to tt ence the tho lio choice ot lt a 1 member h b Iny other means mens than the ther presentation r of if tho the merits of ot the tho book boob bo ho I Jealously watched Should lillY alY actually resort r ort to unfair practices their books wo 11 believe belov would and bo less lees le likely Ikel of adoption luin If IC I they hey thc had hal been witting willing to make mako r a I L clean clau campaign S Wo We do 10 not Iu that any ni member of lt Ic the Iho book convention can ho bo Induced by hy personal or other considerations to vote oto for what whal lie he or sho ho believes boleYN to bo ho boan honn l an nn Inferior book And nd we are arc reason reasonably 1 ably certain that any auy direct attempt 1 io FO o to Influence any an of or the thc members 5 would meet meat with wih detest defeat it t la ir II the Hie duty dul of ot tho 1110 members i nil nn ni the Information I ton they iio Iho can cal about rb t tIme the reliability and ammil honesty ot of the thc companies anti and specially about their record In living up UJ to tho the contracts they make with wih states coun countries tries 1103 and Ind cities cit It Is IR scarcely a I matter late Ilium ihIL should C concern any n superintendent to learn how much evil evi one ono agent or orone orVIC one hue VIC company can cal say SIL of another As d s 9 to the of the th various corn com II S nil lil that we havo m mt t appear to 11 be high clans m m anxious to pre present pro present sent their respective hooks books on omi 01 their merits In Iii any InY event ent wo feel reel that the tho mem members lem bers beys h s of ot the convention will wil IiI act accord according accordI ins ing I to 10 Ii their bust best Judgment and not nol until nix I II it a careful cn Investigation I Iga t Ion and com coin coinS COl S of 01 tho thu books altered him lutH con CUI S vI thorn 1111 m n as on I to li I o which iii are ILIO ml the thu t he best pr r use 1 In Iii t hu |
