ILLITERACY 



2932 



IMAGINATION 



TO , T , A r J - PERCT - ILOILO. e loe lo, the capital of the province 



Montana 14,457 4.8 



Nebraska 18,009 1.9 f Hoilo, on the island of Panay, and next to 



Nevada 4,702 6.7 Manila the city of greatest commercial im- 



New Hampshire 16,386 4.6 por tance in the Philippine Islands. It has a 



S" ~ ::::::::::::::::::: "!:S? 20:2 '* -* and is the center of trade of 



New York 406,020 5.5 tne province ; the exports are tobacco, rice, 



North Carolina 291,497 18.5 sugar, hemp, coffee, dyewoods and cotton. The 



North Dakota 13,070 3.1 ch i e f manufacturing industry is that of textiles, 



Oklahoma' ! ! ! ! ! [.i ! ! ! ! ;; : .;$ : "is I'l such as the weaving of fa ^ rics of pl > ^ pine - 



Oregon 10,504 1.9 apple fiber. Deposits of iron and gold are 



Pennsylvania 354,290 5.9 also found, and there are extensive forests and 



Rhode Island 33,854 7.7 stone quarries. At the close of the Spanish- 



louS DaSir.: :"!:?" *ll ****** ^ in 1898 the ati s * d 



Tennessee 221,071 13.6 American authority, and in 1899 the insurgents 



Texas 282,904 9.9 fired on the Petrel and Baltimore, the United 



utah 6 > 821 2 - 5 States gunboats. Iloilo was then bombarded 



^JJJJJJJf ' '.'.slljll ll'l and taken by United States troops, and in 1901 



Washington ".'.'.'. '. iS^ie 2.0 civil government and good order were estab- 



West Virginia 74,86,6 8.3 lished. Population of the city, about 60,000; 



Wisconsin 57 ' 769 3 ' 2 of the province, about 415,000. 



IMAGINATION , im aj i na ' shun. The Bible 



The following table shows the percentage of teUs ug ^ where there ig no vigion the peQ _ 



illiterates in each of the Canadian provinces. le ^ and Napoleoilj at the height of his 



The test is based on all persons five years of ^ ^ Imagination rules the world 



age and over who can neither readnor wnte^ Imagination is the grea t index finger of civili- 



POPULATION CENT zation that has pointed out the pathway of 



Canada 7,206,643 10.50 progress through the ages. It carved the 



Alberta 374,663 12.72 gphinx, reared the Pyramids and the temples 



S b a .: : lll^l of the Nile; it created the Parthenon, the 



New Brunswick 351,889 14.05 Apollo Belvidere and the Venus de Milo; it 



Nova Scotia 492,338 10.34 "rounded Saint Peter's dome" and spread upon 



Ontario 2,523,274 6.51 the wallg of g an g igto the ^^ Madonna a 



Prince Edward Island 93,728 7.61 . . 



Q Uebec 2,003,232 12.66 vlslon of heavenly love for all time. Later it 



Saskatchewan 492,432 13.70 gave the world the suspension bridge, the 



Yukon 8,512 13.58 steel arch, the printing press, the steamboat, 



Northwest Territories 18,481 69.25 the i ocomot i ve , t he telegraph, the telephone, 



The following table shows the percentage the electric car, the automobile and the aero- 



of illiterates in European countries : plane to bind together the nations of the earth. 



________________ It has given us the sewing machine, the 



COUNTRY C S AGE BASIS YEAR vacuum cleaner, the cream separator, the reap- 



ing machine, and untold other inventions for 



Austria 26 ' 3 Population over 10 yrs. 1900 ^ benefit f ity and country lightening the 



Belgium 12.7 Population over 10 yrs. 1910 



Bulgaria 65.5 Population over 10 yrs. 1905 burdens and contributing to the culture and 



Denmark 0.2 Army Recruits 1907 refinement of the industrial world. 



England 1.8 Marriages 1910 The works of the great composers Handel's 



J rance 14A Cation over 10 yrs. 906 Messiah Wagner's Parsifal and the symphonies 



Germany 0.02 Army Recruits 1908 , , . " 



Greece 57.2 Population over 10 yrs. 1907 of Beethoven are all works of the imagination. 



Hungary .... 63.3 Population over 6 yrs. 1910 All the great works of literature from the Iliad 



Irelan d 9.2 Population over 9 yrs. 1911 o f Homer to modem, times; Paradise Lost, 



Italy 37.0 Population over 10 yrs. 1911 p t ^ Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Macbet) 

 Netherlands .. 0.8 Army Recruits 1912 



Portugal 68.9 Population over 10 yrs. 1911 and a11 the other g re at dramas are products 



Rumania ...-.61.2 Population over 7 yrs. 1909 this power of the mind. Says Shakespeare: 



Russia 70.0 Population over 10 yrs. 1897 



s P ain 58 - 7 Population over 10 yrs. 1900 And as imagination bodies forth 



Sweden - 2 Army Recruits 1911 Tne forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 



Switzerland.. 0.3 Army Recruits 1911 Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothi 



United K'gd'm 1.0 Army Recruits 1904 A Jocal habitation and a name. 



