Show Few Persons Get Full FullI I Advantage of Reading That there are several million persons persons per per- sons In the United States beyond the age of childhood who are Illiterate contradicts the the st statement put by Shakespeare In the mouth of at Dog Dog- berry that to read and write comes cornea corneaby by nature There are other millions nominally literate who yet read so little and with such pain that to them books are as an instrument upon which they have not learned to play Prof Charles H. H Judd of at the University Uni- Uni of ot Chicago emphasized this in speaking on adult education atthe at atthe the convocation of the tile University of the State of New York Until people people peo pea pie are ready to cultivate reading as they would cultivate the ability to play a musical al instrument or to play golf golt they will never be able to use the best sources of ot Information with readiness and full advantage Rending Reading aloud woud Is recognized as an anart anart anart art but reading to ones one's own mind Is also an a art which can be de devel developed developed devel- devel as as other arts by Incessant practice If It he be were to give as much mach h attention to the cultivation of this skill as the Ule musician gives to ht his art tb the artisan with leisure and a library U- U li library would be richer than the man whose profession or vocation Jea leaves es him no time tilDe to te t read swiftly S and thou thoughtfully In the literature which Is the organ of ot the race mind and whose chief function Is the fusion of nations and nod the enfranchisement of the soul Boul of ot the Individual New New NewYork York Times |