The employers are finding it to their interest to spare their
workers for certain hours and days for such schooling because of
the increased efficiency and intelligence of their service.

A peculiarly neglected group in the foreign quarters of all our
cities are the older women--workers and mothers in the homes. To
these Home Missions is striving to bring some knowledge of the
tongue of the new country through classes arranged especially for
them.

It is startling to find that the United States census for 1910
reports a greater percentage of illiteracy among native whites of
native parentage than among native whites of foreign parentage.
The proportion of children from five to fourteen years attending
school is greater among those of foreign parentage and foreign
birth than among native Americans of two or more generations.

For the entire population over ten years of age, the following
table gives the percentage of illiteracy:


Foreign Foreign
Native or Mixed born Native
Parentage Parentage Whites Negro[A]

United States as a whole....... 3-7 1.1 12.7 30.4

The North...................... 1.4 0.9 12.7 10.5
The South...................... 7.7 4.3 18.8 33.3