The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-09-14
SCHOOL TEACHERS
ARE IN MAJORITY
CENSUS BULLETIN SHOWS THAT
THEY EXCEED ALL OTHER
PRoFEssloNs-oNE FOR EACH
n PUPILS I'M COUNTRY


The Census Bureau has just pub
lished an analysis by Prof. Walter F.
Wilcox of Cornell University. of the
census statistics relating to teachers.
Calculating the school age from five
10 twenty-four years, the report finds
that, taking the country as a whole
there rs an average Of one teacher to
every seventy-one pupils, or 14O for
every 10000, says the Washington
Post.
The computation shows that the sup
ply of teachers, in proportion 10 the
school population has more than dou-
bled in the last thirty years, and that
teachers exceed the total number of
clergymen, lGtwyers and physicians.
In 1900 Nevada had the largest pro-
portional number of teachers; Yer.
mont ranked second, Maine third
and Iowa fourth. The proportion Of
teachers was smallest in some of the
southern states
During the past decade the proper
ton has increased in every state and
territory, the increase reaching a max
imum in the state Of Washington.
The states of the north and west
showed a greater increase than those,
of the south. The bulletin continues:
THE proportion of teachers in con
tinental United States is smaller than
ia England and Wales but create
than in Germany, France. Italy. Cana
da, Mexico or Cuba, and in the follow
ing states the proportion is greater
than in England and Wales: Maine
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chussets, Connecticut, District Of Col
umbia Ohio. Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Colorado. Nevada, Washington
Oregon and California. During recent
years the proportion of teachers in
creased in the country to a greater ex.
tent than In England, Germany,
France or Canada
The proportion of teachers in cities
having at least $4,000 inhabitants is
greater than In smaller cities or the
country districts This condition,
however, does NOT prevail in all divis-
ions of the United States. In the
North Atlantic and North Central di-
visions the larger cities are not so
well supplied with teachers as the
smaller cities and country districts.
fact which suggests the inference
that where an effective educational
system is Of recent growth it has de
veloped more rapidly in the cities, but
where 1t has been established for d
generation or more it has established
a larger ratio of teachers 10 popula-
ton in the slower growing rural dis,
tricts than in the rapidly growing
cities
The Immigrant population contains
proportionately fewer teachers than
the negro population, The children OF
immigrants however, have engaged in
teaching to such an extent that the
proportion Of teachers among adults
Of this class exceeds the proportion
among white children Of native par
EMS.
In continental United tates, as in
all countries for which figures were
obtanable, the greater part of the
teaching is done by women The ex-
cess of female teachers over male is
greater in this country than in any
other.
In the larger cities of every geo.
graphic division in continental United
tates about four-ffths or so per cent,
Of the teachers are women, while in
The country the percent of women
teachers varied from sos in the south
central division to 772 in the North
Atlantic division,