Show few persons get full advantage of reading that there are several million persons sonson in the united states beyond the ago age of who are illiterate contradicts tive the statement put by shakespeare in the mouth of D eg that to rend read and write e comes c e by nature there are other millions nominally literate who yet read so little and with such euch pain that to books are as nn an instrument upon which they have hae not learned to play prof charles 11 II judd of tho alio university of chicago emphasized this in speaking on adult education at the convocation of the university of the state of new york until people are ready to cultivate reading as they won would id cultivate the ability to play a musical instrument or to play p I 1 ay golf they will never bo be able to use the best sources of information with readiness and full advantage reading heading aloud Is recognized as an art but reading to ones own tn mind ind la Is also an art which can be developed aped as other arts by incessant practice if he were to give as much attention to the cultivation of this skin at the lie musician gives to his ba 4 art the artisan with leisure and a library wo would uld be richer than tile the man whose profession or vocation leaves him no time to read swiftly and thoughtfully in the literature which lie tile the organ of the race mind and an d chief function Is the fusion of ef nations and the enfranchisement of afie soul of the Individual New york times |