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Show Few Persons Get Full Advantage of Reading That there are several million persons per-sons in the United States beyond the age of childhood who are illiterate, contradicts the statement put by Shakespeare in the mouth of Dogberry, Dog-berry, that "to read and write comes 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. Trof. Charles II. Judd, of the University Uni-versity of Chicago, emphasized this in speaking on adult education at the convocation of the University of the State of New York : "Until people peo-ple are ready to cultivate reading as they would cultivate the ability to play a musical instrument or to play golf, they will never be able to use the best sources of information with readiness and full advantage." Heading aloud Is recognized as an art, but reading to one's own mind Is also an art, which can be developed, devel-oped, as other arts, by Incessant practice. If he were to give as much attention to the cultivation of this skill as the musician gives to his art, the artisan will leisure and a library li-brary would be richer thnij the man whose profession or vocation leaves 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 of nations and the "enfranchisement of the soul" of the individual. New York Times. |