Show !± The emphasis on purchasing as it concerns us here local regional purchasing and especially of supplies and current operating needs Until this study has been upon was undertaken little had been done to standardize or sys- tematize such purchases Importance of the problem During the early years the problem of supplies and busi- of the seminary program ness administration in general was of minor importance The same was true in public education where the scope was limited primarily to memory work within the field of the three "r's" As the program was extended with a wider variety of activities as well as expansion geographically the problem of furnishing and handling needed materials was correspondingly Increased philosophies have made it techniques and necessary to add even more to Newer methods the procedures of handling supplies The Job of furnishing the necessary supplies and Mort and business is school the for big public equipment Reusser have indicated the growth of the importance of they say: As the work of education expanded in the number of extent of its program persons it serves and in the more and more specialized items of supplies and equipment became necessary until today one finds in the when |