Show t LL L LH L- L H II III II I Illiteracy it in the States I I II II Au Illiterate is a person 10 years cars care write in of ago or 01 older who cannot nn any language This is the test applied ap UP plied piled In the United Unite Autos t-lutos census com com- It 11 InU zany may be as assumed that one who cannot write cannot read an anthis and this is true with few c exceptions in lit 1370 there lucre were CIC In III each 1000 of or population pupa lation lallon of or tho United States 00 Illiterates ates In n 1880 there ero in 1890 8 It 11 had bad fallen fullan full en to lo 1 an and In lu 1 1300 1900 to 10 Thus Thu it appears that in to our county count about one person In e cr every nine ol or 10 iu years and over O IB i Illiterate le In land Scotland and Holland there I Ione is h but butone butone in Switzerland one out In to one in inJO Ill JO Denmark in GOO COO in st W lUG I In lit one r den deu and Norway one in 1 1250 50 and in III u. u Germany German illiteracy I is almost all aU the tho r. r- ratio Tho in III 1303 1903 among in tho tinny anny was but of one in 2500 OO all and Illiteracy Is probably oven even less among the German Gelman people generally generally gener gener- ally than among the tho recruits These Thes facts ure not hot such uch as ns to mali muK Americans proud oud Nor can we excuse ourselves es on the ground around lound that thul we Wt recho rt- rt echo o great numbers of or from the less intelligent peoples of Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope rope- for In lu many slat states the illiterates of ur native parents parenti outnumber those whose parents were born horn in ht foreign lan lands s nor nOl is 18 It In lit the South only if fn which this Is true In ITT the slate of New York Yur In 1900 s were there of ot foreign parentage und and 1000 of ot native Moreover In the large cit cities cit cit- ies ics where our foreign burn population Is lis largely congregated the percentage oC of illiteracy is lower lover than in lit smaller cities of or or ul les less and in to th lt j than in the tuc elite clUe cities it is 15 no greater U average crase country district The following list shows the number I of or Illiterates In lit each 1000 of or accor according t to the last United Sta States l 15 census Iowa 3 9 3 p GJ 9 9 Montana Gl ct Washington 31 A Ut e G G. G Utah 31 11 Missouri lI st l Oregon 3 Rhode Island 81 I Ohio 10 f 11 1 Wyoming to 40 V. Virginia 11 lit Minnesota 91 11 D Dt la ware aware 10 t 1 1 Novada t 13 an J 1 1 1 Colorado 12 1 Y ln Indiana lana 46 Arkansas o. o Idaho 1 Tennessee O Wisconsin Jj 17 19 48 45 Virginia o. o 60 r N Carolina S I Mainz 1 l Arizona WO 90 on em York Pork r 63 Georgia 25 ll Oklahoma 56 Mississippi O No o. o Dakota 66 6 New re Mexico 33 3 Vermont oS 8 Alabama 3 O OTa Massachusetts Ta jl 69 So Carolina cw JCl cy 69 59 Louisiana 38 T r. r All 11 the states before Maryland in fn inI I I J i I tl the he c foregoing list have c compulsory attendance at- at 1 I ten dance laws 0 but thus they arc aro not nots as a 3 arule rule ruc very ClOY rigidly lY Three of ot f those that come coma later in the list ha e such uch laws but hut they are nrc practically useless through tux lax administration American Journal of Education |