Show I ILLITERACY rs n Report port of F Federal d rl D Department nt boTI Very ery nigh High Educational Abl Ability t Among l Negroes grot According to a n report just Issued at at Washington ton by the time department nt of or commerce com corn merco merce and labor In tho the entire population population tion of ot the tho United States Illiteracy has declined from In 1900 to 77 per percent percent cent In 1910 Among children between the ages of 10 and and 14 1 years the tho decline In the thc ten years was from 72 to 41 1 per cent In 1010 the whole number numb or ot or children of or tho the ages of ten to fourteen years y who were ere unable to read road nn and l write rie was of whom 14 69 were erG ere white and r ne negroes roes leaving among amon Indians Chinese and md Japanese Illiteracy ra y among among tho the native white whito children chil chil- dren has fallen talen to 17 per p-cr cent chi chi- and amon among those of foreign or on or mixed d parentage parentage par par- who for tor the tho most moet part live In Incites cities cites the he proportion Is I as low v as as 06 I per cent On the tho other hand as many manyas as per percent cent of or ne negro ro children are illiterate s- s |