Show Mote lays Flays Bookstore Co op Textbooks can not be purchased for less than is charged by the book store Students' Students chronic complaints over overbook overbook overbook book prices are arc groundless and no nomore nomore nomore more excitable than the wave of sulkiness which sweeps over the colleges and universities of the entire nation when quarterly book- book buying time comes around A book store cooperative would fail as miserably on the Redskin campus as they have at other major institutions Such arc are the claims of S. S W. W Mote 15 years ears manager of the uni university university uni- uni whose experience in book store management avid and professed professed professed pro pro- personal acquaintance with book store managers managers in 40 states are arc the basis for a lengthy statement state state- state state-I ment merit issued recently to a campus investigating committee sponsored by the Capitol club independent mens men's group The university book store goes oes in the hole on book sales Mote asserted We Ve sell books at cost costor or less and manage to pay expense only b by profits from candy notebook notebook notebook note note- book paper and other miscellaneous articles We Ve dont don't have any book store competition because no one can meet our prices If you can under under- buy any anyone one of our books anywhere in Salt Lake at retail prices Ill I'll give ive you ou a copy of the book the lean voiced smooth-voiced book store chieftain calmly offered Cooperatives arc not worth the attendant ills of time trouble and intricate organization according to Mote The liThe largest possible rebate students students stu stu- stu-I stu dents could get from a University of Utah cooperative book store barring the raising of prices would be between 50 cents and arid a dollar he declared and not more than 70 per cent of the students would bother to call for such an amount He told of attempts at book store cooperatives in other colleges and universities and indicated universal failure has dogged them than contin contin- Letters written to heads of two cooperative book stores in two major universities one in Oregon and one in Texas by the Capitol club investigating committee re resulted resulted resulted re- re in replies watermarked headache according to David Ray Stone committee chairman |