Show Few Native Native Born l Utah Cannot Read Reador or Write Thursday was Illiteracy day dav da In InthA Inthe the thA public schools of ot Ogden In speaking of illiteracy ey day dav da Supt W Earl 1 Hopkins said cold Ill Illiteracy I Is It not confined to tn In my or group of ot states stales There Ill ate more moro illiterates In New York thin th in any other slate In ht the union Of Ot the tho five fl million illiterates ln the tho United State States 0 over oter er three million are aro native born Had It not been for the tho weak eak spots of or of educational stem ot of o the past St there hero would hate hava been less than two to million rather thin than five o mJ- mJ mil million lion ilou Illiterates illiterate in n tho the United States In 1920 I lit Ill 1920 Utah had Illiterates ates with Ith a o percentage o of 1 1 I 9 illiterate crate erate e i In n n Utah the th number of ot na- na na born tive-born Illiterates 10 years ot of otal age al and over totals with a percentage Illiterate of o 0 During the draft In connection with the psychological teat test men ro ro segregated Into two groups and Illiterates r tes A total of I 1 men were were given this test durIn during the draft These men were among t twenty eight twenty ntY amps located in e every ery section of otho th thor country The Tho figures figurea below summarize the results Number of men examined i 1622 I Per cent nt Illiterate 24 9 3 rho Tho me meaning of ot Illiteracy ne- ne ac according cording to tn the draft dratt was as a lick lack of the ability to read and Un- Un un newspapers an and l to write rite letters using tho the English lan lan-I lan lan-guage gUlle It It Is 0 s Important that the Nation be from the thc ot of foreign born horn illiterates It Is equal equal- equally equally equally ly tl as Important that the nation protect Itself from native born illiteracy If It the American legions legion's no Illiteracy In 1927 Is Isto isto isto to be he re reached 1 we must strengthen nt at once the tho weak eak spots in our edt system S stem that have re- re resulted re resulted n three p million native nath 0 born illiterates tes in U S I In 1920 Utah SI had 1 a It total for for- born I ei born n born n-born population of ot 56 or Cor a per cent of total population foreign of ot I |