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Show a. f Soon: No Illiteracy n, ' In the past ten years our population gained about 16 M I nor cent and our illiterates dropped 13 per cent. . Today only about four out of every 100 Americans over '' 10 years of age are illiterate. In a few more years, at the. (: present rate, all of us will be able to read and write ! ' This rather shatters the claims of the alarmists, who ' assert that a new bureau, with its attendant flocks of I; I bureaucrats, is needed to educate our children and us. America's present school system seems to be doing pret- l t- good work, without the addition of a national department Maturation. Why not let it alone for a few years to ac- tor.iplish tha job at which it is working so efficiently .' i |