Show THE CENSUS bureau has just issued is-sued a bulletin showing the illiteracy illiter-acy in the United States as returned re-turned at the tenth census The table presents some interesting facts that are full of suggestions America may layclaim to having the best school system in the world but so long as it contains over 6000000 persons over 10 years of age who cannot write and 5000000 who cannot read the nation cannot boast of being highly educated The showing made by Utah is altogether gratifying as compared with the country at large or with many of the oldersettled states The percentage of persons over 10 years of age in the United States who are unable to read is 134 unable un-able to write 17 Percentage unable un-able to read in Utah 5 unable to write 91 The local Illiteracy is as follows Persons over 10 unable to read 4857 unable to write 8826 whites unable to write 8137 native 1 4 na-tive whites finable to write 3183 j foreign born whites unable to write 4954 colored unable to write 6S9 or 523 per cent of the whole colored col-ored population |