Show Education Has Scored Great Advance In United Untied States Slates I dUn 1 and have scored gre In the I United States ov or t r. the years lean In tn i 1900 1800 there er were le lesS than 52 million Americans 10 cat cark old oM or more i iwho who could read tead and write wherein whereas aN I Iby by 1930 1850 the hum rhad Increased to over ovet 1111 million 0 Of t course Courte the population n has hu been rising steadily but not nearly so I rapidly as educational standard Since 1090 the number of high school graduates has Increased eased ab about ut 1 13 times as fast and end th the tM number of cf collego col cot lego lege graduates six times as ss fast as tot total at population tion One OM reason fo for foi America Americas greater Interest in education is the trend away from farm life In 1850 85 83 p pT pr r cent of our people lived on farms but today a mere 15 per cent do soA so A growing proportion of cf Americans American are working more with their heads than with their hands And even farmers and factory factOr workers care more about education than they used to Today some 60 to 70 per cent of our adults read magazines fairly regularly and 85 to 8 VS 95 per r cent consider con cn sider alder their newspaper a necessity An average of nearly 55 million copies copie of newspapers is bought every weekday |