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Show LOW EDUCATIONAL LEVEL. U. S. Ranks Ninth Among Nations In Education of Its People. v Washington. The United States was declared to rank ninth among the nations na-tions of the world In the general educational edu-cational level of Its people, In a report re-port of the house committee on education, educa-tion, made public Wednesday, recommending recom-mending passage of the Smith-Towner bill, to establish a federal department of education, with federal aid In Increasing In-creasing educational facilities. The country Is trailing behind "most of the civilized world," the report said, from the standpoint of Its educational advantages. ad-vantages. The proposed measure offers the only means, the report declared, of correcting the present Inequality of educational opportunities among the various communities and preventing wnste of public funds" and inefficiency due to luck of co-ordination among federal ngencies dealing with education. educa-tion. Illiteracy Is a national and not a sectional sec-tional problem, the report snid, In citing statistics to show it was almost eqntjilly prevalent 'In every section of the country. |