Statistical data regarding the Towner-Smith bill-Continued. Dr. KEITH. I wish to show this to the members of the committee and call attention to the fact that in these columns I show you a little picture of the internal workings of this bill in such a graphic form that you will have no difficulty in seeing it. Some day when you are feeling fine you may start in about 9 o'clock in the morning and study these facts from this table, and find out what they mean. Now, these facts are here set up in about 30 tables. May I very briefly call your attention to what these facts are? Starting with column 1, the number of illiterate natives, 10 years of age and over, in the United States in 1910, it gives you the illiterates in the different sections, in the North Atlantic Division, the North Central Division, the South Atlantic Division, the South Central Division, and the Western Division. Senator SMITH. Is this a duplicate of what the committee was furnished by Mr. Gibson in the other hearing? Dr. KEITH. No; they are not duplicates at all. Senator KENYON. Was that based on the 1910 census, or is this based on the 1910 census? Dr. KEITH. Some of it is and some of it is on the 1916 figures. The first column shows the number of illiterate natives 10 years of age and over in 1910 in the different States of the Union. The second column reduces those figures to percentages of the total for each State and division, so you can see what share each State has of the problem of illiteracy. For instance, Maine has 9,917 native illiterates. That is 0.2636 of 1 per cent of the illiterates of the country. In the next column you will find the allotment under the terms of this bill for the removal of illiteracy in Maine. Now, take your own State and see what the facts are. Take the State of Pennsylvania, the last of the North Atlantic Division, and the number of illiterate natives of 10 years of age and over in the State of Pennsylvania is 74,318, or 1.9754 per cent of the illiteracy of the country. Under the terms of this bill Pennyslvania would get from the Government $148,190.09. If you will take the time to go through that, it will prove interesting, I am sure. Now, column 4 takes up the number of foreign born in this country in 1910, and column 5 gives the percentage of the foreign born, and column 6 gives the allotment for Americanization, under section 9 of the bill. In column 7 I jump over to the number of persons from 6 to 20 years, inclusive, in the United States in 1910, because $25,000,000 is to be allotted on that basis. I reduced that to a percentage column and I allotted the $25,000,000 on that basis in column 9. Another $25,000,000 is to be allotted on the basis of the number of public school teachers, under section 10 of the bill, and in column 11 I have reduced that to percentages, and in column 12 I give the allotment of the $25,000,000 on the teacher basis, as you will see. In column 13 the total allotment for equalization of the $50,000,000 is set forth, and in column 15 the allotment of $20,000,000 for physical and health education under section 11 of the bill which is to be distributed according to the census. Therefore, in column 14 the population of 1910 is set up. Then, under section 12 of the bill, $15,000,000 is allotted for teacher training, as shown in column 16, on the basis of the number of teachers; and in column 17 we have the total allotment of $100,000,000 to the different States, and that is reduced to the percentage form, so that you can see how the States share in that allotment of $100,000,000. |