Show tL t i l Illiteracy Must Go Goi C kf i Doubtless it will wilt be an unpleasant surprise to many readers to to o learn that 10 per cent of the adult population of the United I States plates tates cannot read read or write r. r 1 l Equally Equall it will be as surprising if not ot discouraging to learn that e out ut of the first men drafted in America of them J R could Could not read the orders given them r oJ I Americans have boasted of their advanced civilization and of W. their their heir progress in education but the records show that among the thew w population of the United States there is a greater percentage of pf r literacy y than in n some European countries in including Germany but lut 1 1 excepting Russia among others I 1 1 Statistics show that more money is spent annually in America for chewing gum than for school books and that the average lor teachers teacher's salary is less than that of the average day laborers k Discussions are going on throughout the country as to the theof advisability of appropriating large sums of public money in thel the l' l r Construction Construction of highways bridges and other similar improvements ments as s a means of furnishing empl employment for returning soldiers buti but i tn in in very few instances has the suggestion been made that these contemplated con- con r. r g funds be used in the building of new schoolhouses or additions additions or In making the present ones more sanit sanitary ry and nd more 4 attractive in every way Utah and its cap c apita pil ital city have havea a proud record of furnishing the their heir r children wi with with lf school 11 01 facilities with the result that records p 4 Doubtless will show sh shirAh that t few of the illiterate soldiers 4 mentioned a came ame from this state st and d still stilt there is room for improvement in this M connection U t t America as a whole should be aroused to the fact that the V F I Republic is taking chances with its own own future by neglecting the edu- edu atlon of those who eventually will become citizens and voters I i Ignorance is a poison which permeates' permeates the body politic and d Breeds reeds anarchy and most certainly it should have no place in a democracy which claims first place among the nations of the world t |