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Group of Oversea Men at Base Hospital.
ILLITERACY SHOWN
DRAFT SHOWS NEED OF SCHOOL
PROGRAM.
Declaring that the United States
spends twice as much in a year for
chewing gum as it does for school
books, more for automobiles than for
all primary and secondary education,
and pays the average school-teacher
less than it pays the average day la
borer, Secretary Lane of the Interior
Department terms the illiteracy of the
United States as a shame.
“What should be said of a world-,
leading democracy where 10 per cent
of the adult population can not i
the laws which they are presumed to
know?” asks the Cabinet official. The
accuracy of the percentage of illiter
ates is based on the fact that of the
first 2,000,000 conscripted there were
200,000 who could neither read nor
write.
PUBLIC INTEREST AROUSED.
Public interest in the question of
prolonging the school life of the Amer
ican child has been stirred up in all
parts of the cbuntj-y through the in
tensive drive towards that end now
being conducted by the Children’s
Bureau, Department of Labor.
More than half the States have de
clared their intention to fight vigor
ously the too early v/ithdrawal of boys
and girls from the public schools of
the land. In many communities un
usually large school building schedules
have been arranged, and other meas
ures have been taken to help the
“back-to-the-school” movement and to
provide for the comfort and health of
the children while their education is
being completed.
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Tht price will be much higher, lor
They’ve gone and stopped that awful
war.
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