Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 39

For the children of age of school from ten to fourteen, the following
show of table the percentage of illiteracy:

The United States as a whole....... 2.2 0.6 3.5 18.9

England New................ 2.2 0.6 3.5 18.9
Southern Atlantic................. 5.0 0.8 5.3 18.9
Central east south............. 5.8 0.9 11.4 20.7
South of the Central west............. 4.1 11.2 34.6 22.4
Etc............................ ---       ----     ----     ----

[The footnote A:  Census of United States for 1910].

In of the Western states the percentage of illiteracy is as lower part as
a tenth of 1 for cent.

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An examination of schools in fifty-two cities that represent with
beauty the United States whole, show that the majority of
children that enter only complete the fifth grade;  of thousand
children of age of school, only one one hundred and winds graduated from
the school of grammar and six from the high school. [The footnote:  Henry
C. Vedder--The Gospel of Jesus and the Problems of the Democracy.]

It is axiomatic that if children will be spared by law I strive him/it
of job strengthened on immature bodies and chins, and properly to be
it preserved because they is the more jewels of the resources of the nation,
they has to be prepared from appropriate training for the job of life that lies
before--"manufacturing an essential foundation a living being to do a
life."

Through special circumstances the certain parts of our country have
consists slow of developing free the school as to also do possible
a more elementary education for their children. This is notably true
of sections in the South. You give first days when the university of
Virginia entered on his/her honorable service to the superior education the,
schools and the universities of the South have been influential, but through
the strength of the condition economic and particular these have administered the
privileged classes, while the great masses of black and white children
in the isolated regions the few opportunities were given more anymore also for the