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Breaking the Complex. Almost as a matter of course, Joe joined the F.F.A. when he entered high school in Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper...
...difference. There were more pictures-some spread across two pages or running necklace-fashion around text. There were wider margins, gaps of white space, splashier illustrations, and a Collier's-like short-short story. As body type for its stories and articles, the Satevepost replaced its familiar Century Schoolbook type with a lighter version of an old-fashioned design by John Baskerville, great and good friend of Satevepost Patron Saint Benjamin Franklin...
...paid too much attention then when state legislator James B. Morgan of Birmingham presented a bill which he had written. It was called Act 888, the Schoolbook Labelling Law. The law was simple enough; it provided that authors and men mentioned in public schoolbooks who were members of communist or communist front groups should be identified and catalogued in the front of each book. Thus no child would be deceived as to the affiliations of the person mentioned in the school books...
...bill, passed as it was amidst much other legislation, lay unnoticed until last March when a schoolbook publishing house representative went into speak to the editor of the Montgomery Daily. Advertiser. The Advertiser shortly afterward published an editorial pointing to the restrictions and the basic absurdity of the new Act. The editorial labelled the law not a book burning act but a 'book toasting...
...bill, passed as it was amidst much other legislation, lay unnoticed until last March when a schoolbook publishing house representative went into speak to the editor of the Montgomery Dally Advertiser. The Advertiser shortly afterward published an editorial pointing to the restrictions and the basic absurdity of the new Act. The editorial labelled the law not a book burning act but a "book toasting...