Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — Few Scandinavian Illiterates. [ARTICLE]

Few Scandinavian Illiterates.

Scandinavians lead the world in point of literacy. Among every 20 German immigrants over fourteen years old is found one illiterate. Of immigrants from other nations it is claimed there is found an Illiterate among every 23 Dutch, 38 Irish, 62 Welsh, 60 Bohemians; TT Finnish, 100 English and 143 Scottish; but the proportion among those who come from Scandinavia is one in 260. Among the Uthunlan immigrants and prose from southern Italy half of them read nq language.