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Show DENOUNCE TEXT BOOKS NOW USED IN SCHOOLS, SAI.T LAKE, Utah, Julj 7 School book presses Of America were Charged with "tricking the Innocent public. poisoning young minds md moral lawlessness," law-lessness," by J. W Searson. English professor of tho Kansas Agricultural college, in an address at the National Education convention here today Plea for a higher standard In text bonk publication were voiced by Professor Pro-fessor Searson. '"The cil must be attacked at the source," he said. "No new text book should be published that does not offer a distinctiv e constructive Improve- ment over texts already In use." Professor Season suggested several definite step which he said "should be followed in making distinctive text books which answer th- highest need of the pupils, teachers and the public ' One sufc.gii.tlon hjh that no manuscript, manu-script, regardless of merit, be published pub-lished merely for the sake of sales Another proposed that publishers locate lo-cate and cultivate text book author;; with scholarship und rpal vision. A third suggested that the author's man-script man-script be tried in schools bcroro publication. |