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Show I BROADENING EDUCATION Advocating the passage of the Smith-Towner bill, now before congress, George -V Child, superintendent of the city schools of Salt Lake, explains the purpose "I the measure, which appropriates $100,-000,000, $100,-000,000, with $464,291 to be expended in Utah According to Superintendent C hild, the Smith-Towner bill provides pro-vides for the distribution of tT.oUiMXH) to lessen illiteracy, and th necessity of such a large outlay of money is set forth in the statement that the first selective draft showed there were 700,000 illiterates between be-tween 21 and 31 years of age in this country. The census of 1910 in-formed in-formed us that there were more than five and one-half million illiterates illit-erates of Hi years of age and over in the United States At that time I one out of every thirteen persons 1 yais of age or over was an il-1 literate Every fourth illiterate was a native White ot native parent-j age Illiteracy and ignorance are generally found together, and ig- j norauce makes democratic institutions impossible. Good citizenship therefore, requires that illiteraey be removed. "Approximately 15,000,000 residents of the United States are foreign-born. These 15,000,000 foreigners must be Americanized This bill appropriates $7,500,000 Eor this purpose to be distributed to thu states on the basis of the number of foreign-horn residents. I tail has about 70,000 such immigrants "Due to a number of causes, educational opportunities are not equal in America. For instance, the wealth back of a child in North j Carolina is approximately $7Ju. and in Nevada $4135. In population) per teacher, too. there is a wide difference. In Iowa then- is approx- J iraately one teacher for 85 people, while in Louisiana there is one teacher for 240 people The wealth per teacher is also widely different. differ-ent. In Mississippi ii is approximately $120,000, in Illinois $450,000, and in Nevada $675,000. A two-mill tax would pay all the salaries of all the teachers In Pennsylvania, a tax of 1 5 mills would pay the salaries of all the teachers of that Mate. In Utah during the yeai 1 918-1 n it would have required a Btati tax of 4.5 mills to pay all the salaries of all the teachers in the state Fifty million dollars has been set aside m the proposed bill to equalize educational opportunities. If this proposed legislation is made law Utah will receive $175G io overcome illiteracy; $36,531 for Americanization; $257,489 to enlarge en-large the field of education $81,203 to enlarge physical and health education, ami $77,240 for better and more preparatory facilities foi teachers. It is a national program of education somewhat along the lines ot the comprehensn e campaign mapped out by the leaders of school work in Utah, which is recognized as the most advanced system of educa tion preseribed b anj stale in the union |