The Green Forest tribune., 1912-08-23
STATISTICS GIVEN
 IN POPULATION Interesting and Valuable Infor- nation Concerning People
 of Arkansas.
NEGROES ON THE INCREASE
IIliteracy Is on the Decrease as Shown by Comparison of Former
 Census Reports.

Western Newspaper Union News Serv'ce.
 Washington, D. C.-The composition and characteristics of the population of Arkansas as reported in the Thir- teenth decennial census are given in an advanced bulletin soon to be issued by Director Durand of the bureau of the Census, department of commerce and labor. It was prepared under the supervision of William c. Hunt, chief statistican for population statistics.
 They are grouped as follows:
 For the state and counties, for cities of 25,000 or more, for cities of 10000 to 25,000 and for places of 2,500 to 10,- 900.
 A previous population bulletin for Arkansas gave the number of inhabi- tants by counties and minor civil di- visions, decennial increase and density of population and the proportion urban and rural. That and the forthcoming bulletin cover all the principal topics of the population census, except occu- pations and ownership of homes.
 Negro Percentage Increases.
 Of the total population of Arkansas, 1,131 ,026, or 71.S per cent, are white, and AZ, 2,291, or 2S.2 per cent are ne groes. Corresponding percentages in 1900 were: Whites p, negroes 28. In 26 of the 75 counties, less than five per cent of the population is negro, in 14 more than half. In Chicot coun- ty the population is S0.4 per cent ne gro. In Desha county, 79.4; in Phil lips, 7S6, and in Lee 7S.4.
 The white population is divided in to four groups:
 CD Native - native parentage that is having both parents natives of the United States.
 @ Native-Foreign parentage, hay ing both parents born abroad.
 (3). Native-MiXed parentage, hay ing one parent native and the other foreign born.
 (4.) Foreign born.
 Native white or native parentage constitute 6S.4 per cent of the total population of the state, and S5.3 per cent of the white population. Native whites of foreign or mixed parentage constitute only 2.3 per cent of total population and foreign born white 1.1 per cent.
 Urban and Rural Population.
 Of the urban population (that is, population of interpretations of 2,50O inhabitants or more) 61 per cent are native whites of native parentage, of the rural population 695 per cent. The corresponding proportions for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage are 6.7 and 1.7 per cent respectively.
 The ageforeign-born white is in the urban and 0.S in the rural, the percentage of negroes is 292 in the urban and 2S in the rural.
 Males and Females.
 In the total population of the state there are S10,026 males and 764,42S females, or 106 males to 100 females. In 1900 the ratio was 1061 to 100. Among the whites there are 107.7 males to 100 females, among the ne groes 1017. For all native whites combined, the ratio is 107 to 100, as compared with 16S.9 for the foreign born whites.
 In the urban population there are 100.4 and in the rural 106.S males to 100 females, the urban being very nearly evenly divided by sex, while in the rural the males outnumber the females.
 State of Birth.
 Of the native population-that is, population born in the United States -67.S per cent were born in Arkansas and 322 per cent outside the state; of the native white population, SIS per cent were born outside the state, and of the native negro, 33.1 per cent. Persons born outside the state consti- ute much larger proportion of the native population in urban than in rural communities.
 Foreign Nationalities.
 Of the foreign-born white popula- tion, persons born in Germany repre- sent 34.4 per cent; Italy 10; England, 9; Australia, 75; Ireland, GA; Canada. 6,3; Switzerland, AS; Russia, AS; Scot ldHu, G.o, rIdHCe, G'o, oWeueI, 1'o, all other countries, 10.2. Of the total white stock of foreign origin, which includes persons born abroad and also natives, having one or both parents born abroad. Germany contributed 3S.5 per cent; England, 107; Ireland, 10.4; Canada, 5.7; Italy, 5; Australia, AS; Switzerland, 3.7: Scotland, 3.2; France 2.6; Russia, 26