The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-02

News

Some very interesting statistics may
be culled from the lists of educable
children which have been turned into
the Office Of State Superintendent
Powers by the various county asses
sors. According to these statistics Lin
coin county shows the largest number
OF educable children, with S,154 whites
and 15,1l4 blacks. The next nearest is
Lauderdale, with a total white emu
meration of 10, 1865 to II, 1862 negroes.
Perry county is lowest in the scale,
with l,6l4 whites to 663 negroes, while
the statistics from Lafayette show that
there is almost an even break between
the races, the whites showing 4, 1913 10
4,772 negroes.
BY far the blacklist county in the
state is ~lssaquena, which has 19l white
e~ducables to 1854 negroes, the proper
ton being 10 to |. while Itawamba is
the whitest, the figures being 1927
whites to 3S7 negroes, or 12.4 to l.
Tunica, with a back enrolment of
1901 to 440 whites, comes next to Issa-
quena in point Of excess, or III to /,
while ~Tishomingo is next to Itawamba,
with a white school population of 1867
to 504 blacks, a fraction over 9 to |
being the ratio.
Letlore is next to Tunica in point of
black excess, with a ratio of 90 to l,
followed by Sharkey, rs to /; Bolivar,
IL to l; Washington and Coahoma,
with about the same ratio, or I to |,
with Adams, Warren, Quitman, Yazoo
and Kinds showing all the way from ,
to 5 to |.
The Old Ladies' Home Association
of Mississippi has recently received
several good-sizcd contributions from
boards of supervisors. Montgomery
county sent a donation of $500, Tunica
and Hancock counties 500 each and
Bolivar county 5000. The association
still needs about S., 1000 to pay off exist
ing Indebtedness and get matters in
readiness for the opening. An erron-
eous impression is impression is abroad
to the effect that antrance fee of 800
will be charged each inmate. This is
untrue. No admission fee Of any kind
will be charged. Another
idea prevalent is that women of limited
means will be admitted. 1t is the pres
ent purpose of the home to care only
for women who are in INDECENT and des-
titute circumstances.
Superintendent of Education Powers
is engaged in a compilation of the re-
ports from the several counties of the
educable children of the state. All but
seven of the seventy-eight counties
have reported, and these show an in
crease of 40,151 over the enumeration
of 1906. 1t is feared that this increase
will materially affect the distribution
for 1909, as it is in excess of the expec-
tations and the appropriation by the
legislature was based on a rather lower
ratio of increase, so that a falling off
in the per capita seems inevitable. The
counties of Bolivar, Clay, Copiah,
Hancock, Kinds, jefferson, Oktibbeha,
Pamela and T~allahatchie report a de-
crease.
Gov. Noel being asked what he
thought of the efforts of might riders"
to shut down gins by threats of burning
and murder, said: Il think the extent
of danger is overestimated. There is
not a county in Mississippi that does
not contain such a great preponderance
of law-abiding people as to make
convictions of such crimes as sure as
any other Offense. In the sections of
the state which contain large planta-
tions and grow most of the cotton of
the state there will be no sort of
trouble, as such lawlessness could find
no sympathizers, and would be met
with such determined resistance as
would prevent its start"
A legal test will be made of Missis-
sippi's new statutory prohibition law
Immediately after the measure becomes
effective throughout the state on Jan.
l. The proceeding will be to test that
clause of the statutes rendering all
liquor licenses invalid after Dec. 81, re-
CARELESS of the period for which they
were issued.
From a remark of Gov. Noel it is evil
dent that charters for social clubs, so
called, are going to have difficulty in
securing his approval, unless it is spe-
officially stated therein that no intoxi-
eating or prohibited liquors are to be
handled or dealt in, regardless as to
whether they are to be kept solely for
the use of the members.
The bureau of plant industry of the
United States department of agricul-
ture has decided to experiment in
Kinds county in the growing of alfalfa,
the work to be started this fall.
Gov. Noel says he will call on the
federal government for troops if neces-
sary to suppress night riding, but is of
opinion that it will be stopped without
military interference.
Bud Mortimer, an aged planter, was
arrested by United States marshals, |
near Winona, charged with sending
night rider notices through the mails
to cotton gin owners. Mortimer de-
clares he was forced to send them by
a band of armed men, under threats of
death.
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