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Show Illiterate 4-F Total Is Equal to Russian Army WASHINGTON, D. C. Dr. John K. Norton of Columbia university said that illiteracy alone has deprived de-prived America of a fighting force equivalent to the Russian army now driving toward Berlin. Norton testified at a hearing held by the senate committee on education educa-tion and labor that "we have had to reject at least 2,000,000 4-F's enough men to equal the army in the current Russian offensive because be-cause they were denied educational opportunity. He said southern states, with "substandard schools and sometimes some-times no schools have thrown up such a large percentage of 4-F's that we have had to turn to other sections to find them. "More youths from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California Cali-fornia and Illinois will be killed in this war than would have been had we had reasonable educational opportunity. |