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But the 8.000.000 of those who can not read and write the English language. augmented by the million who came to our shores every year until the World War from other countries. gave us reason to pause. That war brought out the astonishing fact that 24.5 per cent of our enlisted men could not read a newspaper or write to those at home. Vast numbers of immigrants from southern Europe and from Russia and Poland have come here with antigovernment ideas and without any knowledge of our language or the spirit of our institutions. and we have had in consequence May Day outrages. I. W.