| Show i ILLITERACY ILLITERACY- OY ll IN UTAH f The S State late of Utah though less burdened with illiteracy than han most t of the states of the Union will vill wage a campaign to i educate all illiterates in this state who vho cannot read noi nos write The first move made in this direction was the appointment appoint appoint- ment of the Utah Advisory Committee on Illiteracy by the Honorable Honorable Honorable Hon Hon- Ray Lyman Wilbur Secretary of the Interior who is also chairman of the National Advisory Committee on illiteracy Utah according to the 1920 illiteracy figures ranks ninth inthe inthe in inthe the percentage of illiteracy among the states states- In the percentage percenta per per- centa e of native white illiterates it ranks sixth from the top The relation of illiteracy to school attendance is well demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- in this state In Rich County where only 04 per cent f of illiteracy exists the school attendance is per cent and San Juan County where illiteracy runs as high as per cent school attendance of children drops to per cent cent- The number num num- num- num number ber oer of native white illiterates in in Utah increased slightly in the decade ending with 1920 More fore than half of the illiterates in Utah are to be found in three out of its twenty-nine twenty counties These are Carbon County with illiterates San Juan with I illiterates and Salt Lake County with 2250 I four Forty-four states have been organized under the auspices of the National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy created some months a acco aco o with the approval of President Hoover Remarkable progress has been made in a number of states and several hundred hundred hundred hund hund- red thousand illiterates have been taught to read and write It is expected that as a result of the efforts of the Rate committees committee illiteracy will be considerably reduced in in the ther I ration a R a whole The census of 1920 indicates that five million mil mu- r I lion Uon adults in the United States could not read and write Such simple i traffic signs as stop and go meant nothing to them The e of illiteracy in the United States States' is greater than that in England Germany Switzerland Norway Denmark and andt t Japan t |
