ILLITERATES IN THE U.S.
The war has brought to our attent ion that arc almost unbelievable with rospoct to the prevalence of illitersicv in this country (says the "New Xork World"). Nearly 700,000 men of draft age cannot read or write in any language. There were over 4,600,000 illiterates twenty years old and more. Illiterates above ten years of age^—the common basis of reckoning—number 5,516,163. Of an army so vast that, marching in pairs twenty-five miles a day, it would be two months passing the' White House, as Mr Lane figures, over 58 per cent, are white, and. 1,500.000 arc native-born whites. Immigration is by no means the sole factor m*a condition that- saps the economic as will as the mental resources of the country. An uninformed democracy is] not a "democracy. ,
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16218, 22 May 1918, Page 8
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