The census-takers of 1920 to the people of America: " Can you read and write?"
Five million men and women of America: " We cannot! "
Besides the 5,000,000 honest illiterates, there were 5,000,000 '' proud " or " dishonest " ones, who refused to admit their deficiency.* Researches carefully backtracked the Federal statistics into States and localities, there also discovering about 10,000,000 near-illiterates—a grand total of 20,000,000 ignorami. This is: more than half the population of France, more than all the Mexicans in the world, more than all the inhabitants of Norway, Sweden,...
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