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Show BIBLE PASSAGES TO BE LITERACY TESTS WASHINGTON, March 27. Reading matter for a literary test for aliens under the new immigration law will be taken from the Biblo, the department of labor announced todav. Passages will be selected in more than 100 languages lan-guages and dialects. 4 This is not because the ' Bible is considered a sacred book bv many people," peo-ple," said the departments announcement, announce-ment, "but because it is now the only book virtually in every tongue. Translations Trans-lations of the Biblo were made by eminent emi-nent scholars, and, what is more to the point, the translating was done by men whoso purpose it was to put tho Biblo in such simple and idiomatic expressions in the various foreign languages as would make it possible for the common people of foreign countries to grasp the meaning readily and thoroughly. ' |