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The CHICAGO HERALD and EXAMINER , CHICAGO HERALD ano EXAMINER NORTH SHORE EDITION of the "A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK" For Home Deliveryâ€"Telephone Highland Park News Agency 904 W. D. Heartt (Highwood) 1125 \ James W. Russell (Lake Bluff) 1707 Roy Howe (Ravinia) The Chicago Herald and Examiner is now pubâ€" lishing a daily North Shore Edition carrying two extra pages of intimate news and pictures gathâ€" ered from North Shore communitiesâ€"in addition to all regular news and features. This special North Shore news is included with the regular Chicago "Final" Edition. It is delivâ€" ered to North Shore newsstands each morning. An expert staff of reporters and photographers has been assigned to "cover" the North Shore and territory immediately adjacent.. They chronicle outstanding events and happenings . . . social and club activities . . . and community plans of interest to you and your family. No effort is being spared to give North Shore residents comprehensive, lastâ€"minute news of their own communities. : The mounted police of Waukegan will be increased this year from one to three motorcycle coppers, it was announced by Commissioner. Wilson Gee. â€" They will be on the street beâ€" ginning April 21. ‘MUCH ILLITERACY IN LAKE COUNTY The addition of 21 new contagious cases to the records of the city health department last week enlarged to unâ€" comfortable proportions the city‘s alâ€" ready. numerous list of quarantine cases. . A representative of the state health department arrived in Wauâ€" According to the census figures of 1920, five million adults in the Uniâ€" ted States were illiterate. One §:t of every 14 people of voting age cahâ€" not read the warning sign on a poiâ€" soned well; cannot read "Do Not Smoke, Explosive Near"; cannot read, "Danger, Live: Wire." One out of every 10 people over 21 cannat write. The percentage of illiteracy in our country is greater than that in Engâ€" land, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and Japan. & Statistics in Illinois Illinois stands 22nd from the top in percentage of . illiteracy, and 25th from the top in native white illiterâ€" ates, â€" There are 30,907 native white illiterates in Illinois, which is more than all the illiterates in the followâ€" ing states put together: Idaho, Neâ€" vada, Wyoming, Utah, Montana. The number of illiterates in Illiâ€" nois ‘has increased in the past deâ€" cades follows: â€" In 1920â€"173,987. In 1910â€"168,294. The percentage of illiteracy.in the state ‘ranges from 0.4 per cent‘ in Kendall ~county to 7.2 per cent in Pulaskiâ€"county. 19 counties in the state. have more,than a thousand illâ€" iterates in them. One countyâ€"Cook, has over 100,000. kegan, with the intention of searchâ€" ing for the cause of the unusual #pread of scarlet fever, meéasles and mumps in the city. In cities above 25,000: Belvidere, 36; Glencoe, 38; Highland Park, 54; Lake Forest, 26; North Chicago, 362; Wilmette, 26; Winnetka, 22; Zion, 27. In Nearby Counties Boone, 59; McHenry, 246; Lake 1,â€" 885; Winnebago, 2,034. _ Waukegan‘s record is also not of the best. Of the 27 cities listed beâ€" tween 10,000 and 25,000 population, Waukegan is third from the bottom with a total of 1,069 illiterates, North Chicago, according to the report, had only 362 illiterates. These figures are contained in a report released last week by the Illiâ€" nois Committee on Illiteracy, which is conducting a campaign to eradiâ€" cate the stigma of nonâ€"education in this state. Of the 102 counties in the state of Illinois, Lake county has one of the poorest records in the matter of illitâ€" eracy. This county, according to the figures of the 1920 census, has 1,885 illiterates, which is the eleventh from the last. State Report on This Matter Shows This Section‘s . Status; Details Thursday, Aprff 17, 1930