I wish to call tile attention of the Senator to the fact that the object of this bill is .to furnish leaderslip and suggestion as a result of broader studies than would be likely to be made in a single State. Then. I wish to ask the Senator whether he does not think that tie National Government more than the States is to blame if there is illiteracy on the part of foreignspeaking. nonEnglishspeaking immigrants who are in the United States? If there is a blame. does it attach to the States? Furthermore. if there is still a large portion of the negro population that can not read. should all of that blame be charged to the States? I only want to add that the statistics furnished us by the Secretary of the Interior lead to the conclusion that the illiterates sought to be reached especially by thi bill are largely immigrants %hose chidren can not speak English. foreigners. and negroes who have not yet advanced as we hope they will.
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