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Show I " 1 5 2 i pl ( II rimmolofilsts say there nro two kinds of criminals One Is the highly educated man and the Other I? the Illiterate. The ordinary man is rarely a criminal. He ran make a living by hard work and he does not aspire to great wealth The highly e'dUC&teti man i the mOSl dangerous criminal because he works on a large scale and operates op-erates under the eyes of the law and evades Ks provisions'. Yet hi numbers are comparatively small In time the common people will de-' de-' stroy his power just as I hoy de stroyed the power of the medieval robber knight. Education cannot reach him. but if an reach the preat mass of illiterates who are guilty of the more revolting crimes and are responsible fr,r our great army of policemen The educated erOpk uses an Illiterate Illit-erate one to accomplish bis ends if he wishes to descend to murder or other low felonies. "Without a fighting force the man higher dp could not opera re. Philader P. Claxtor., United States Commissioner of Education. 1 has pointed our thai the night ! school wil! do much to end the dav of the illiterate crook. .Men an see the folly of their crime if they can read anil write. In a recent report ClaxtOn lias pointed out the enormous illiteracy of this country. The people of the ' I'nited States generally think they are highly educated, yet there are 1 more than 0.000,000 Americans more than 10 years old who can neither read and write These men are found In ihe foreign populations popula-tions among the negroes and also among the native whites of the I'nited States These men arc a : constant menace to the country. While many illiterate men are good citizens they can he misled more ' readily than a man of education: I "-V This was recently Illustrated In Southern Illinois when Thomas I Clapp a young man. fell in with another boy, Lester Moody. Moody could read a little. He read to Glapp the doings of the Jesse James r gang. They read very little be I cause Moody could not read rapld- I ly. but what they did read Was of the worst. They had not had the I touch of the public Influence. Clapp Iond Jesse James He planned a daring murder without, knowing all chances of escape were small. He arrangvd an alibi llrst. but hi small mind failed to make Hik alibi good. With Moody he killed two farmers, robbed their homes and fled. Both were caught and confessed. con-fessed. Lulling of the midnight oil In the night school would bavo made useful men of these two bo s. The? were hard working youths until a suggestion of crime readied them. l;cR N( E DUE TO sMAI I, OPPORTUNITY. The feileral census for the yar 1910 shows that there were at that, time in the I'nited Slates 5,316,163 persons 10 years of age and over unable to read and write. Dr. P. P. Claxtbn, i'nited States Commissioner Commis-sioner of Education, says "The full meaning of these figures will be hotter understood when it Is remembered re-membered that the number of illiterates il-literates in the I'nited States is es , by only a few thousands than the total population 10 years of age and over in all the New England Stales, r in the State of Montana, Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, I I 'tab, .Nevada. Idaho, Washington. I Oregon and California, and more , than the population 1 0 years old and I over in t he cities of Boston, Balti- more.. Washington, Buffalo, Cleve- I land. Detroit. Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Indianapolis. Louisville, New Orleans, Or-leans, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, St. Paul. Seattle. Spokane. San Francisco and Los Angeles, n dOilble line of march, at interxnl--of three feet these 5. .",16,163 iljlter-I iljlter-I ate persons would extend over a djs- lahce r.f n.r.r,? miles more than I iwfcp the distance from Washington I I'ity r, Jacksonville, Fia. March- I Jng at the rate of twenty-live miles per day. it would recUre mtro tiinn two months for them to onss a given point, mighty army is this, with their banners of blackness and darkness dark-ness inscribed with the legends of Illiteracy, Ignorance, weakness, helplessness and hopelessness too large for I he safety of our democratic demo-cratic Institutions, ff,r i ho highest good of society, and for the greatest degree of material prosperity. "Their ignorance is not wholly nor chiefly their own fault To a large degree It ic due to the lack of opportunity op-portunity because of the poverty or negligent e of the States and o m -munltles in which they spent t'.ieir childhood " Three million'; one hundred and eighty-four thousand, si hundred and thirty-three or "s per cent of those who were reported llliteral . are while persons, and of thl nun-. -bev. 1 , 5 : 4 . "J 7 2 are native born, and 1.650.361 are foreign born. This shows iS.r. per cent of our illiterate illiter-ate white's ate native born. A study of age periods shows that 4,897;013 Illiterates were over jo years of age and. as a consequence were beyond the free school age in most of the states of the Union Two million, two hundred and s -enty-three thousand, six hundred and three of these illiterates were males of voting asre. and. as only 819,135 were negroes. 1,454,46s were white male voters. Should the voting vot-ing population be increased by the extension of woman's suffrage and no restrictions be placed on the right of suffrage by white persons; the balance of power In closely i untested un-tested elections will be held In many States and most counties by votCrs who can neither read nor write. The South is still th,p leading sec-t.'on sec-t.'on of the county in the percentage of Illiterate. The States of Arizona. New Mfxlcj and Texas have the highest percentage of foreign born whites wlio cannot road or wri . and the States which formed the old Confederacy have the highest rank when the total population is considered. con-sidered. The large ne?:o popula- ' fx I ! 1 j - ,- '''' ' . W. ',v ' : . . ?? ''' ? . ' J"S', ' . .fc '' y - V f I . ' ' V T '4 . . . . ,;.. v. -, . , i '' " Hop accopnts for this H fH Before the w it thte old SpuJ.h was r3- rc dividi 1 into four classes or ea 1 1 i JXTWS Ths aristocrats, who were fuw m nuniher, but owned most of tho land arid tnuny slaes, the ninall farmers, the ypmanry of th: land, who liad some land, rarely owned more than one or two slaves and come, hut Within the past dozen years the educational progress of the South has been but little short of marvelous. The States as a whole are making rapid progress, while the cities of the South are |