Edith H. Allen

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athletics, activity of Explorer of Boy, touching exposures of portrait, public
concerts and reunions, with such oratories on popular themes as
Commissioner of Corrections Katharine B. Davis. Other public
schools give carpentry that trains in job of actual shop, while qualifying
the students for positions in work. They also prepares students to
you pass the civil examinations of service for public it positions and it gives
appropriate training for positions on the Police and Fire Department.

The establishment of schools of continuation in some shops and
factories are also an inestimable advantage to some of the push of toilers
I lend in the struggle of maintenance.

The employers are finding him/it to their interest to save them
workers for the certain hours and days for such education because of
the increased efficiency and the intelligence of their service.

A particularly neglected group in the foreign quarters of ours
cities are the oldest women--workers and mothers in the houses. To
these House Missioni is striving himself/herself/itself to bring some knowledge of the
language of the new country through classes systematized for especially
them.

You/he/she is frightening to find that the census of United States for 1910
you compare a greater percentage of illiteracy among white native of
native parentage that among white native of foreign parentage.
Children's proportion from five to fourteen to frequent
school is greater among those of foreign parentage and foreigner
birth that among American native of two or more generations.

For the whole population more than ten years adult, the following
table gives the percentage of illiteracy:


                                        Foreign foreigner
                               Native or Mixed been born Native
                              White of the Parentage of the parentage Negro[A]

The United States as a whole....... 3-7 1.1 12.7 30.4

The north...................... 1.4 0.9 12.7 10.5
The South...................... 7.7 4.3 18.8 33.3
The west....................... 1.7 0.8 9.5 7.0