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Show EDUCATORS HOPE TO ABOLISH ILLITERACY SAN FKANCISCG, Jan. 88. Steps Intended to Wipe out the ' black spots" of Illiteracy In the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mounfuln states will be discussed dis-cussed at a conference to be held here Kobruarv 3 and A. Delegates from educational polltl-j cftl. social and civic interests of eleven I wetern Mtats are expected to attend 1 The conference in to be held under the auspices of the Illiteracy commission or th,. lnlted States. Illltoraoy can bo reduced by a aya-tematlc aya-tematlc campaign of education, ac-oordUis ac-oordUis to Arthur H. Chamborlln. aec- rotary of the conference committee. "Contrary to popular belief, laro numbers of Illiterates are not foreign-born." foreign-born." Mr. Chamborlln said. "Many J native Americans have escaped the educational ed-ucational advantages offered and, although al-though they apparently peek and conduct themselves Intelligently, they tannot road or write. In California! alone approximately 8.3 per cent of I the total population Is lllltemt" ' Among the speakers n; the confer-' enoe will be president David P. Bar-rows Bar-rows of the tnlerslt of California nnd Will C Wimd. state ruperlntendsnt or cdUuaitoq. |