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Show I I UTAH LOW IN ILLITERACY. Utah stands ninth in the list of states on the test of law percentage of illlterao According 1o a statement, state-ment, compiled from the last federal census by A. C. Matheson: in charge of alien registration, Iowa leads all the states with 1 1 Next is .Ncbrask with 1.4, then Idaho 1.5, Oregon 1.6, Kansas 1.6, South Dakota 17, Wash ington 17, Minnesota 1.8, and Utan 1.9. The larger states. New York Illinois, Illi-nois, Pennsylvania and California are well down the list, as the contain ,i large forgein population unable to read or write. Nevada is thirty -second due to the fact that the Battloborn stato has a comparatively large Indian population. popula-tion. All the. southern states are low in this educational test because they have the colored people who have been deprived of schooling. Arizona and New Mexico, with many Mexicans, are near the bottom A better comparison of relative standing would bo to confine the- rat lng to native whites. Utah would rank even higher in merit If that wore to be the basis of determining per centago of illiteracy. |