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by Frederick Franklin Schrader

Illiteracy.

Illiteracy.—As a related element of interest in the study of the war from a cultural as well as a military angle the illiteracy of some of the contesting and neutral nations bears strongly on the question:

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France	14.1%
Belgium	12.7%
Greece	57.2%
Italy	37.0%
Portugal	68.9%
Roumania	60.6%
Russia	69.0%
Serbia	78.9%
United Kingdom	1.0%
Austria-Hungary	18.7%
Germany	0.05%
Denmark	0.0?%
Netherlands	0.08%
Prussia	0.02%
Switzerland	0.03%
Sweden	0.0?%

United States, 7.7% population over 10 years. Of this, the native white population of native parents furnished 3.7% of the illiterates; the native white of foreign or mixed parentage, 1.1%. The negroes are down with 30.4% illiteracy, less than that of Italy or Greece and several other European States engaged in the task of making the world safe for democracy. Even our Indian population (45.3%) shows less illiteracy than Greece, Serbia or Roumania. The illiteracy of our white foreign-born population is recorded at 12.7%.