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Show Mm BATTLE OH UJTBIACY: m Americanization Forces. Overlook Opportunity in Newspapers SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 4. The illiteracy il-literacy conference of the western ;t!if adjourned here today after adopting resolutions declaring the present state of lllotracy a "national dlsgrcce" and demanding remedial; I legislation. The resolution asked that j all educational forces in the country I I set themselves to a more comprehensive compre-hensive and serious consideration ofi the illiteracy situation. There are l.lr.2 foreign language, papers In the United States, and yir-I yir-I tually none of them are being Uried 1 by Americanization forces for th w!j- ' ) ing out of Ulitcracf. according to Miss! Ethel Richardson ah executive of the 1 State immigration and housing coir. -I mission, 1 "Many foreigners are now reading these papers rhn 1 r . e,- were allowed to read papers in their own country" she sold.. "Wt h'avt nol been conscious enough of the omporl -n a of t q foreign for-eign press." 1 Miss Richard' : d attendance lr-crea- 1 20 per cenl In this state In tho a?t year, unl ibat Borne perspns at-tenling at-tenling came 30 mile to do so. |