IIliteracy

Illiteracy

Appointed three years ago by President Hoover, with Secretary of the Interior Wilbur as chairman, the National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy made its final report last week. Then, lacking funds to carry on, it passed out of existence. The National Illiteracy Crusade in Washington will continue its work.

The N. A. C. I. worked chiefly as a factfinder and cheerleader, with 44 State branches, to make the nation "illiteracy-conscious." In last week's report it pointed out that "examples of what has been accomplished by intensive effort are found in Louisiana, where some 90,000 illiterates were placed under instruction, and in Georgia where 118,000 were given similar help." The nation-wide illiteracy percentage, as of the census of 1930, is 4.3%, with 4,283,753 persons ten years and older unable to read or write any language. Illiteracy has dropped one-third in the past decade. The Midwest is the most literate part of the land, Iowa leading all States with less than i% illiteracy.

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