Show UTAH TO WAGE FIGHT AGAINST tha state of utah though I 1 burdened with illiteracy than most the states of the union will wage campaign to educate all illiterates f in the state who cannot read of writ the first move made in this directly was the appointment of the utah al committee on illiteracy by R lyman wllbur secretary of the inte lor who is also chairman of the n advisory committee on utah according to the 1920 figures ranks ninth in the percenta of illiteracy among the states in t percentage of native white it ranks sixth from the top the r lation of illiteracy to school atte dance is well demonstrated in it state in rich county where only per cent of illiteracy exists the scho attendance is per cent and J san juan county where illiteracy nr as high as 26 9 per cent the scho attendance of children drops to 63 per cent the number of catl white illiterates in utah ln slightly in the decade ending wil 1920 more than half of the illiterate in utah are to be found in three c of its twenty nine counties the are carbon county with lolite ates san juan county with 1111 crates and salt lake county ath 2 forty four states have been dorgai iced under the auspices of the nation advisory committee on illiteracy en abed some months ago with the ap of president hoover remark abe progress has been made in a nun ber of states and several bundle thousand illiterates have been faugl to read and write it is expected that as a result the efforts of ahe state committee illiteracy will be considerably deduc in the as a whole the of 1920 indicates that the million alts in the united states could read and write such simple t signs as stop and go meant hotl ing to them the percentage of ij literacy in the united states Is great than that in england germany swi I 1 ze rland norway denmark and japa j mrs J W watts was hostess the tuesday afternoon club this we at the her daughter mrs r L taylor four tables of bridge wei played high score being won by arii H J ond second high by M R L kirk sf 4 i |