The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-10-15
Commission to
Assist Illiterates
Governor Mccreary ProcIalms Ap-
polntment Of Commission Which
IS Will Have Charge of
Teaching School.

/, | pie of Kentucky and in the alienation
Of the adult illiteracy of the State b,
his proclamation of the appointment
of the Kentucky lIliteracy Com
mission. This Commission will d,
much toward the betterment of tn,
people of the State by giving thos,
who had not the present day adven.
tages of education, chance to Learn
to read and write. This splendiC
work has for some time been under
! the supervision of Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart, and under her active leader
ship it is hoped that there will be nc
illiterates in the State in the course
of few years.
Following is the proclamation of
the Governor:
At the last meeting of the General
Assembly Of Kentucky, ! recommend
that Kentucky Illiteracy Commits
sion be appointed and authorized to
inquire into and alleviate the cOndit-
ion of the adult illiterates in the
State, and Mrs. Cora Wilson Stew
art, Chairman: Miss Ella Lewis, Doc
tor; J. G.. Crabbe and President H.H.
Cherry were appointed as members
] of the Commission. This Commits
sion Has inaugurated a State cam
paign, Mrs. Stewart being the active
leader in the efforts to stamp out H.
literacy through moonlight schools
and other methods. Upon their call
for volunteers about one thousand
/ teachers offered their services and
are teaching or making arrangements
to teach at night, and others are
daily offering their services. The
chairman and leader in this great
work has Informed me that the Ker-
lucky Educational Association, the
Kentucky Press Association, the
Kentucky Federation of Women's
Clubs, and the Society of Colonial
Danes are taking much interest and
are performing much valuable ser
vice, and that many other Organiza-
tons in the State seem interested.
The aim of the Kentucky Illiteracy
Commission is noble an exalted and
of the greatest benefit, and there is
no subject of more Importance or Of
far reaching influence than the elimi-
nation of illiteracy from our State.
We should educate all of our people,
those under twenty-One years of age.
and those upwards Of twenty-one
years of age. The perpetuity of our
free institutions depends upon the in
telligence and virtue of the people
There are 208,084 men and women H.
our State who cannot read and write,
and of whose intelligent efforts along
the lines of education, religion an
general development and advance
ment the State is deprived, and this
constitutes Il deplOrable situation
and presents a great and urgent need
which should be promptly met and
relieved. instruction should be Of
fered to the mothers for their own
sake and for the sake of their child
rem and the benefit of the State; it
should be offered to the fathers for
their own sake and for the sake a.
increasing their earning capacity and
promoting home comforts, and for
the sake of more intelligent exer-
else of the right of suffrage so as to
help maintain good government for
the State. Instruction should be Of
fered to the young men and young
women who have missed Opportuni-
ties earlier in life, but may yet take
hold of instruction and make
achievements. The instruction of all
the illiterates in the State will not
only give to Kentucky higher rank,
educationally, among the Statess but
will give her a new and distinct po-
sition as the first Commonwealth
which has ever attempted to accom-
plish such a great and important
work. | call upon all to help in the
cause OF education of those under
twenty-one years of age and those
upward of twenty-one years of age,
and | appeal TO every public and pri-
vate teacher, every professor in our
high schools, colleges and UNIVERSE
ties, all public officers, every repre-
sentative df the press, every profess