Show CAN BE PROUD OF UTAH a proud position in its i from as announced i i bulletin it alf aih ago 30 abil i uon i n i lie ari ar i of 10 efio in AI that they i ible i i i ilber in english in ago at lime i t in h list r i A i dij lias i i ictor f 10 the ii i cl ilof ill ranle tourte i julite 1 only 2 S children r 1000 i lil i our 0 li of t i 01 honor iced by i of t farsi is un i I 1 then u s ihn of colum i and utah w th 22 h ei n jl ion fth i known the 0 tor al i nf th i i i t 11 eidlic i 01 s not color i n t only 10 aadva it t ulois uio js twenty a tie ala 11 in 1 thai state nowr hag tl bv itah fifteen IRO ea baho du the north i ah is ni v second hut no i vest i u is i s a cload eighth hi au ilUM jia 0 only 26 nevada do enviably position i i up cens ri pons w in a is inadi t amons 1 aie c it nuke a much bet 3 inn lin itt rural districts i P ei wc c y and country can ii verba accurately drawn u c ine ft leb leba a than b ini ar na for the purposes iud n ible frodi jia als ic 1 euial areas accordingly the i il ch fc conven lonco i descg a included udea many ot adaller ci ie in tho country ciui tir illiteracy among in i in tha city this i 0 design 1 ot L f i lan iott 4 I 1 only the north 41 lie stati the so called my tidy many large cowna or it a under in the eni i ati a by no means inferior to me a aho la cities in ahl BCD i iho un d states a ha cit 1 i 8 and inthe coun 10 ini youth abo difference in the south atlantic tf cion ind 1934 for city and 0 n i rep i ively and tn the south I 1 ai ald 1813 i ate greater illiteracy n ith country 0 i noi necessarily indicate that abo aj d for is less than 0 the chiy one cauca ot the differ is the difficulty 0 providing ti jcob for ft rod country t ion the of the aoi system already i in many count comman i ie tend to remove this djavad fl ji also 11 ailio to i hf 0 aitho 1 i pupula ion is their smaller per c IA which necessitates a a alei per 01 jit n local appropriation i u il pui po i idealizing that a c public instruction U ati aji bu general good of i leg i an 3 in many states rt a ite tax this 11 n ly wl aph ibi school i it is aro made 10 a alt the poorer nd 0 o alt lt tw i ind country in or of i i ic on i ii i to the IAPI ihal u udes ot dailve ln 11 0 of in i il is acx i ni i be expected lian 1 i aunger ayta roup T antt a c 1 u lu thel iii older iiii 5 i since itice pir no e 01 aln 45 aind 64 in A is L be 11 j mid 14 1 v 11 bi i n jn avld 11 chat ft i 1 lle condri aini aliat i 1 i uc copula flu flub 8 1 ina f ii iii no doubt neri aw fan io some pails ia in hi i mi qt an ii illel in ilits be children n ijo hi acord of ih nay be ne y ibula of H thai iha total pop j roy ro y as r ifrid bang wr laoo in the nun 10 to 14 year of agi the per 1 ill tha population group 65 liars 0 bu his leady i not common 0 o ga clasps of the population the of abe native white bom ot nativo parents i lower in theace group B to 17 18 to 20 and sl to 24 in the age group 10 to 14 in this tact there is i ig believed evidence that a considerable number of persons who failed to learn to read and write in alie period of childhood mako up foe this deficiency lu later years but after the ago of 25 the number Is not largo enough to overcome the handicap lo 10 which tho older generations are subject by reason of poorer educational opportunities illiteracy is in general greater in the south than in the north for all classes of population perhaps the tallest tal rest basis of comparison between tle two Is that for native children living in ot over in the north atlantic di chlon the illiteracy for this class of children Is 2 1 and in the north central 13 in tha south atlantic on 11 Is 83 and in the boubli central in tha of such comparisons it should be re that the south has a larger number of children in proportion to population than tho north and a smal ler per capita wealth the south ts moreover handicapped by the necessity of maintaining separate schools for whites and degroes DB groes it beems somewhat surprising at first to find a lower debrea of illiteracy among the children 0 foreign born parents than among tho children of native parents for the former the proportion of illiteracy Is per 1000 ipa the latter per 1000 this difference does not prove hat immigrants are more anxious than natives to ure for children tho advantages of an elementary education it is explainable by the fact that the foreign born aro concentrated in the larger aua to a much greater extent imn he native population comparison or individual cities indicates that there is little in illiteracy tho wo of children living in the etame nut such differences a can be detected are usually in favor of the children of native parents tn tho age periods the female fax 1 now lew illiterate than tha mala and the in which this Js true appears ito ba lengthening extending 10 to 19 in 1890 and from 10 t 4 in 1800 in explanation ot the fact that tho girla have pot only with the boy but aro going ahead of them it is suggested Aug that boys are subject to parental con arol vian and moro prone to play dod hat ahey are also more required to contributor contri buto to taft family inconis by becoming wage earners when they should be in school thus the changes which are in progress to tho coming of a time when females of oil agen will be less erit anan malos they also to tha coming of n time in the ampre remote future when illiteracy for all blasas will nave practically disappeared and guilty gu alty of the sexes in this will be restored in 9 millennium of literacy in this bulletin special attention is to he among children which as already remarked reflects preset conditions and thus ft basis for v corn perison of the efficiency ol 01 public elementary school in different parts 0 the country and among different claier clai eB of population the state in which there is least illiteracy among children 10 to 34 years of age 34 per 1000 Is nebraska in 1890 this honor belonged to jowa somo slates are handicapped by the iro ir o proportion of negroes or of the foreign born whites in their population in a comparison confined to the white children he state of washington leads with connecticut ft cloie clo ie second while ro the state of massachusetts achu waa first in rank and nevada second all states show progress between 1890 and 1900 but the progress was naturally greater in some states than in resulting in gome change of rank it is notable that tho states making the greatest gaine jn rank 1890 and aro kotae al ali newer states west ot uie riippi while those ander colne the greatest losses oc rank ara northern saw east of tho |