The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-17
$5OO,OOO,OOO TAX
SEEN IN ILLITERACY
L. s. Commissioner Tells I'm.
ployers This Is Annual
Burden on Nation.
WIDE CAMPAIGN PLANNEn
Industrial League Discu,se,
Education Of Adults in Fac.
tories and Schools.

movement to interest empiover, 49,.
educators In a campaign TO hri,s -.
legislation In New York. New Jersey a.,
Connecticut that will aid In the eI,,r,,.
ton OF illiteracy among adults No,
launched at a conference held yes,.-Ao,.
afternoon in the woolworth Rp,la,r.
under the auspices OF the rrdu,,-,,
League, composed OF representative :.
large industrial concerns who desire Ia
bring about better Industrial mapa,..
ment
a resolution setting forth that il,.-s.v
Ia menace to Industrial peace. hi,ae-,
adults OF foreign birth from acou,ri,,
American ideals and customs. Increase
accidents and disease, lessons productive
earning power, decreases thrift and i'm.
pairs good citizenship was passed n
was declared to DO the conviction OF ia
league that the Commissioner OF Educs,
ton should no enabled through the speedv
passage OF House bill 1870. now b.foys
Congress. TO promote an adequate cam.
paign against adult illiteracy.
The conference also adopted a resoIu.
ton introduced by Winthrop Talbot man.
ager OF the league. that action should h.
taken by every board OF education IN
the three States ITO interest and inform
industrial managers and tho public con.
corning present conditions and enlist the
cooperation of chambers OF commerce
boards OF trade and individual managers
In Installing public school classes for
employees In Industrial embellishments to
teach reading. writing and the speaking
Of English
nil Gives wider Povers.
p. p. Claxton. United States Con,mis
sioner OF Education. explained that the
bill In Congress empowers him TO invest.
gate methods in this country and abroad
and TO promote plans for the elimination
of illiteracy. cooperating with state
county and municipal officers.
The census Of 1910" M. CLAYTON
said. showed that we had $500. 900 people
in the United States 10 years old and
over who were unable TO read and write
This means a great burden on the whole
country and In some places 1t Is great
danger. There are 100000 negroes I'M
able TO read or write. We have IN this
section n large number OF foreigners VINO
cannot read or speak English. lll!tcracy
Is being eliminated In the South. and IA
rhe North II IL increasing each year II
New York State adult illiterstes number
over 100000.
nave l1dl III the country
at large the difference between the earn.
ing capacity of those who can read Eng
lish and those who cannot is 800 a year.
] mean that their value is worth that
much to the State and nation, consid.rlna
the waste OF material, time and conditions
that illiteracy brings about. The differ.
enoe In economic value therefore would
be s6oO,oOo.Ooo a year"
Progress In Kentucky.
Mr.. claxton said II had been damon.
strated that "illiterates can be educated,
In Rowan county. Kentucky nv means a,
pub,lc school classes ilII,era,es Mad Tas,
decreased from LOO 10 less than twent,
I'm .Iph,ee, ,nonths
Arthur ID Dean cb,ef NJ ,he divi.io,
educatior renre.ontir, s,,,.
az Educatior TT r.inIa~
az ia thai New york a. sn nI,,era,e bor,,,.a
"it ia the wh,rInool ~ the waterS,IIs =,
immigration
NJ Dsan sa,, thu, In ut. o,,-ior ,bs
nrohlem az uiItaracy is a STAT I'D ,o, +.
municinaI viiiaga ar school dIs,ric, ,-oh.
lem
Charlie, u Uine secre.arv u, tho co,.
necticut BOARD OF Education who nr..