Show few persons persona get full advantage of reading that there are several minion million persons in the united states beyond the age of childhood who anre illiterate contradicts the statement put by shakespeare in the mouth of dog berry that to rend read and write comes by nature there tire other millions nominally literate who yet rend read ito ao little and with such pain that to them books are as an in instrument upon which they have not learned to play prof arof charles 11 II judd of the uni hersity 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 rending reading as they would cultivate the ability to playa play a musical instrument or to play golf they will never be able to use nse the best sources of information Inform aUen with readiness and full advantage reading aloud Is rec recognized recognize ed as an art but rending reading to ones own mind Is also an art which can be developed as other arts by incessant practice IS if he be were to give elve as much att attention emdon to the cultivation of this skill as the musician gives to hla art the artisan with leisure and a library would be richer than the roan man whose profession or vocation leaves mm him no time to read swiftly and thoughtfully in the literature which Is the organ of the race mind and whose chief function Is the fusion rf of nations and the enfranchisement of 0 the soul of the individual new york times |