Show illiteracy in america IT TT BEEN publicized PUBLICIZE D but the census takers have unearthed es the shocking tact fact that 10 million american adults cannot read oi or write yet congress willing to spend billions to train young men lor for war has bottled up the million dollar aid to education bill to train young men and women for peace georgias democratic congressman don wheeler has been begging tor for of his house mates to sign sign a discharge petition to force the federal aid to e education du cation bill out of the tha education and labor committee where it has been salted away by the leadership but he has not been able to scrape up more than 43 namest meanwhile literacy in the united states has a sunk k t to an alarming low probably lower than russia what t the lie bublin also realize is that the nations lut lons 10 million illiterates over 24 years old are not so southern u thern negroes but many of them na tive born whites official statis stills tics bics show that adults who cannot read or write are whites born in this country another are ara for eign lorn born whites whereas only are negroes the remaining handful are latin americans and orlen orien atals by birth furthermore I 1 illiteracy I 1 I 1 I 1 t e r a c y found exclusively in tha the 5 south for example more than one million illiterate adults live in new york another in pennsylvania and in illinois however 36 per cent of louisianan Loui total population cannot read or write during the war draft boards weeded out young men who could sign their name only with an X of these were physically fit to serve in the army but were disqualified because of lack of education a loss to the country of approximately 15 divisions yet house leaders are not willing to spend a few million dollars on a bill already passed by the sonata senate and which again would make america the most enlightened nation in the world veterans housing bill congressman JESSE WOLCOTT who has been bottling up the housing bill thought he be would show he was not antl anti veteran by calling two witnesses to speak for the veterans of foreign wars he did this despite the tact fact that he had a telegram in his pocket officially repudiating the two witnesses signed by merle hopper michigan commander the telegram read george lyle and A arthur greag purported to represent michigan department on housing at your committee hearings no one but my myself self is authorized to speak for in michigan on any subject before congress deliberately ignoring this protest from the com commander hamder wolcott in effect deceived the public by putting greig and lyle on the stand to denounce low cost housing for war vets ile he also failed to mention that orel greig and lyle lor for a long time have leen been playing hand ln in glove with the real estate lobby in detroit however representative hale boggs of louisiana himself a veteran did not let wolcott get away w with ith this he asked lyle if t the national was for public housing knowing the answer was yes wolcott had the nerve to interrupt boggs but the louisianan persisted 1 I insist on an answer to my question as to whether the national has indorsed endorsed Indor sed this b bill i ll 11 yes or no lyle finally had to admit that thai the veterans of foreign wars favored passage of the housing bill and that he and greig were speaking only tor for themselves chairman wolcott looked very sick army navy mavy unification THE GREATEST ARGUMENT in favor of army navy unification was pooling of supplies it was estimated that the taxpayers could be saved a lot ot of money it if the army and navy bought their supplies together instead of bidding against each other however secretary of defense forrestal supposedly a businessman even accomplished this despite the fact that he knew from recent war experiences how great this waste was the waste that has bag resulted from this lack of uniformity Is antrone mical for example 31 SO million dollars worth of tubes were purchased by th the army in 1942 enough to last for 10 years ears cef te the following week another order was placed for 60 million dollars worth of tubes because the army had to stock different types As a result army warehouses overflowed with tubes lubes that varied earled only slightly from each other maybe no more than prong spaced |