Yet the Secretary of Labor declares millions of American children of school age face a false learning in our boasted publicschool system that will not fit 1 in 10 of them for the places they must occupy in life. And other millions can neither read nor write. though. at tremendous cost to the taxpayer. the States are trying to solve the problem of illiteracy. Twenty million of this countrys population. native born and foreign born. are classed illiterate as that word is defined by the Census Bureau. Incredible it may seem. yet 25 per cent of our soldiers in the late war could not read a newspaper with understanding or without assistance write a letter home. The wealth of this country reaches the amazing total of $350.000.000.000. and in the day of auto. radio. and airplane. and all this vast wealth there yet remain 160.000 1room schoolhouses where 5.000.000 pupils attend and receive instruction from teachers many of whom lack eighthgrade education and are blissfully ignorant of all school methods.
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