Note 636 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks (continued 2)

The School Review, loc. cit. Instances of criticism of textbooks might be multiplied. Authors have met objections to their works because there were no “Republican illustrations in the book,” because of quotations from Münsterberg and other Germans, and because of the discussion devoted to prohibition. In this last case a member of the Board of Education of Chicago is reported to have criticised the use of an arithmetic as looking like “a bartender’s friend” in that it was full of problems of “how much did this wine merchant order his sherry or how many barrels of whiskey could the man purchase for such an amount.” Iowa City [Iowa] Press-Citizen, November 13, 1924.