| Show NO RADICAL RADI CAfA CHANGES WANTED IN a short abort time the territorial school convention will be held in this city among the conspicuous questions that will come before that body lor for discussion willbe the subject of text booke boks for the district schools TUC the of the th covent convention loa aul wul ul be men who ought to be and doubtless are more or less thoroughly conversant with the wishes and circumstances of the people at large in deliberating upon purely educational interests financial considerations should not be lost sight of this is an imperative necessity and cannot be separated from the question from this stand standpoint poin t we hold that aej any radical change in the matter of text textbooks books would not conduce condace to the educational interest of the community for the simple reason that it would work a financial hardship ALD any indications of creating out of a trackers Te teachers acKers convention a bonanza for publishers and 0 other interested parties measures which tend to reach down linto into the pockets of the people and make an un necessary idrain upon their hard earned resources should be met with sturdy and energetic resistance in this matter due regard should and must be paid to the wishes and necessities of the people if their feelings and desires are consulted we have no hesitation in in saying min that sweeping changes of th the e kind kin in T question qa estion will not prevail to a man of large family and limited means a change of any considerable sid erable extent in the line of supplanting the books in present use by new ones is a genuine hardship and stands in the way of his bis affording to his children as thorough a common school education as he would desire in this way these alterations are opposed to the tree free flow of the educational stream in place of increasing its volume and adding momentum to the speed of its current if any changes are made at all they should be limited in number and the special reasons and general u urgency for making them should be so potent as to place them beyond question we do not thus speak in advance because of any strong anticipations of an attempt to act in the face of what we esteem to be the genuine desire and need of the people but consider it timely i to urge interested parties to consider the subject beforehand that they may be prepared to meet any possible contingency that might arise during the sitting of the convention |
