Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-01
ILLITERACl AGAIN.

Importance that we are tempted To speak OF
il again, our text being the recently ISSUED
census bulletin giving the statistics of Hitter
ucy. According TO This, Vermont makes {
showiu neither cioditabc as compared will
Other States nor particularly fattdinS ii
itself. Thus there ara in this State 2G4, o..
persons Ut ten years vi age and upward, o
whom IL, 903 are returned as unable to read
\ proportion of 40 per cent. There arc sew
ontcen States aud Territories which show ,
better proportion than this, beginning will
Wyoming whose proportion Of illteracy
3.4, is the smallest, Nebraska coming nex'
with $50. The other States ou,ranking
Vermont are Connecticut, Dakota, Ill
inois. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine
Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New llamp
shire (42), New jersey, New York,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wis
consin. To put the thing in another
form, Vermont has IA larger proportion Of
ilileracy than any Northern State except
Massachusetts and Rhode lsGud. AS 10 The
second OF the three Rs of Our 264, C52 per
sons of ten years old and upward, l5,s3, are
G. In ,his respec, Vermont stands fifteenth
among the States and Territories. Wyoming
again leads the column, its proportion being
only "a, and Nebraska again stand sccond,
with $40. OF the Northern States, Vermont
leads Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mn
neso,n, New Jersey, Pennsylvaniaand Rhode
Island.
In the country at large, Of 80, 1Gl ,CO1 per
sons ten years old and upward, 1923, 45l
are returned as unable to read and $3.50, 0jS
rs unable TO write--thc percentage of nom
readers being 1874 and Of non writers IL
Nrrmonl's percentage is thus seen 10 be much
smaller than the average for the whole cOun-
try. Conn airing nalivilics ard races, nine
and four-tcnths per cent of the white people
over ten years old are unable 10 write; eight
and sevcn-tenths per cent of the native
whites, twelve per cent OF the foreign born
whites, and seventy per cent of the colprtd
persons can not write. New Mexico, with
lis Ignorant population of mixed Spanish and
Indian descent, has the largest percentage of
;,l;,.roov az mr. ooo, son,h Caro,,ro ,.o,r,s
nav, ni,h =, o.n, .l.h,no Co,rnio
Louisiana Miss,ss,,ni and Norh Carolina
are about fifty per cent. Florida does lit
tie better with A ncr cent yirgini, with
4oG nor cen, and Tennessee with as ncr
cent. Kentucky and Texas show abou,
thirty per cent West yirrinia. MARYLAND
and Delaware with the District Of Columbia
and the Territory of Arizoua. have from
seventeen to twenty per cen, of illcra,cs.
To return 10 our own State. the census
epuncrates 224. 36l ns,iye.bom white peI.
sons ,cn years old and inward. Of whom
5354 are unable IN writc--a peceu,ap, of "a
In this rcspec, Vermont ranks thirteenth
ccn,ore of ;l,;,orocv /, Tho ro,iv, .huc non
,,o,;oo 10 ,owor; ~ Noso,ch,so,,s ,hon in
OHIO. c,, ,,;,,. ,l,, ,,,.,,s
ono Nor oon, Tn o,,r nm. o,,.r S,o,o
doo. :, r.,,s O., io, nc an, M,
49,, T.. 80 ,na Na.,,. &C.,. :,
III
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-, y NJ. , =. '.e,
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+ per 'ea' 'n' neA' "'sues' III 1'o''" N"'o'
l,''' '''" ~ nios' u, '"' 'o''ue'" ''a'0'
.ne pe'oen'ase ranges no''' i''ee'' " '"en'y'
1--WE per cent As'o vermont io'e'gh-oofh
population, Tue STATISTICS arc inc reverse OF
ua'terips lDal CLASS OF oui people ten
years ola aud upward hunters 5o'ee4 per-
sohs' OF whom no less IMAM lo'o.' are unable
10 Wrltc-a proportion OF 2oO. But four
states anu lerrl'oflts sho" larger proper
ton than this-Arizona, 26S, New Hamp-
SHIRE, .o9, Ne" Mexico, 43'3, and Rhode
Island, 27,3. In other and palmer
words, with the exception Of these
four States and Territories, the foreign
born people Ut Vermont are the most ignorant
- he found IN the whole country 10 com
pie'c our consideration OF tue sat's'ics'
may oe added that among iore'gn-oorn
whites 'he percentage OF ili''.racy Is general
y more favorable IN 'he northern anu ieSs 80
III Tue southern states IN 'he FORMER IL
rom 'ouf 10 e'sn' per cent III 'nc ia''er from
le" 70 'We"''-se'en per ce"', ine percent
's.o y, as .o"'.o p'''."' 70
',',ss,,. "@e1.,' %, , wv "
' so- ', NV 20 ~ W."
,n,ra.a 20 20 ~. oo,, 49,. ,,, a,n Wv,
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