Edgefield Advertiser

Education Board Names Text Books.

Adoption of textbooks for the public schools of South Carolina was completed yesterday after several days of conference on various texts which had been submitted. The board of education has been in session several days and yesterday announced that its work had been practically completed.

Approximately 32 contracts with book publishing houses remain to be signed up, but this work will be completed within a day or two. Representatives of various publishing houses have been in Columbia in numbers recently and many texts have been brought to the attention of the board. The books for the next five years will be somewhat higher in price, it was understood yesterday, than they were under the old contracts as the cost of practically everything that goes into their making has advanced in recent years.

J. E. Swearingen, state superintendent of education, when asked yesterday for a list of the books adopted by the board, said that a list had not been prepared, yet for publication. He said, however, that the list would be available in a few days.

The law of the state, as is generally known, provides for a readoption of textbooks for the public schools every five years. The books adopted by the board at its meeting will be used over the state in the schools during the next five years. Provision is made with the book companies whereby old books may be exchanged in part payment for new books, this arrangement saving much money to the people of the state.-The State.