The Green Forest tribune., 1912-08-23

and 28.1 per cent negroes. Native whites represent 69.4 per cent of the total number, and foreign-born white, 2.5 per cent. Of the 9,71S foreign-born white males of voting age. 5.284, or 54.4 per cent are naturalized.
 Ace.
 Of the total population, 14.7 per cent are under five years of age, 24.7 per cent from five to fourteen years, in elusive; 20.6 per cent from I5 to 24; 25.1 per cent from 9 to A. and 147 per cent are 45 years of age and over. The foreign-born white population comprises comparatively few children, only , per cent of this class being un- der 15 years of age, while more than five-siXths (85.4 per cent) are 9 years of age and over. The negro popula- tion comprises a somewhat smaller proportion of children under five than the native white population of native parentage.
 The urban population shows a small CT proportion of children than the TUT al, and a larger proportion of per sons in the prime of life. Migration to the city explains this at least in part. Of the urban population, 33.2 per cent are from 9 to A years of age, inclusive, and of the rural popu- lation, 23.9 per cent.
 School Attendance.
 The census inquiry as to school at tendance was merely as to whether the person enumerated had attended any kind of school at any time from September 1, 1909, to the date of enumeration. April 15, 1910.
 The total number of persons of school age-that is, from six to 20 years, inclusive-is 551,6.2, of whom 324035, or 5S.7 per cent attended school. In addition to these, 4,324 per sons under six and 5,436 of 21 and over attended school. For boys from six to 20 years, inclusive, the percentage attending school was 5S.7 for girls, 5SS. For children from six to four teen years, inclusive the percentage at tending school was 70.1. The per centage for children of this age was highest in the small group of native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, SIP, followed by native whites of na- tive parentage, TAT negroes, =5S.2, and foreign-born whites, 55.8. In urban communities the percentage of chi dren of that age attending school was S23; in rural communities, 68.S.
 IIIiteracy.
 The census bureau classifies as il- literate any persons 10 years of age and over, who is unable to write, re- gardless of ability to read.
 There are I42,954 ilIiterates in the state, representing 12.5 per cent of the total population 10 years of age and over, as compared with 2o.4 per cent in 1900 The percentage of illiteracy is 26.4 among negroes, S.9 among for eign-born whites, and ' among native whites. IL is Fl for native whites of native parentage, and 2.S for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage.
 Illiterates are relatively few in ur- ban than in rural communities, 6.4 per cent. as against 13.G. This difference between urban and rural appears in each class of the population, although in other sections of the country the percentage for foreign-born whites, most of whom arrive in this country when past the school age, is practi- cally the same in urban as in rural communities.
 For persons from 10 to 20 years, ir,a yvrhnen d.anpndc largely upon present school facilities and school attendance, the percentage of illiteracy is 7.S.
 Marital Condition.
 In the population 15 years of age and over, 34.3 per cent of the males are single ard 23.7 per cent of the females. The percentage married is 5S9 for males and GA for females, and the percentage widowed 5.9 and 11.3, respectively. The percentage divorc- ed, 0.5 and 0S respectively, are believ- ed to be to small, because of the prob ability that many divorced persons class themselves as single or widow ed
 That the percentage single is so much smaller for women than for men is due largely to the fact that they marry younger. Thus, 21.1 per cent of the females, from 15 to 19 years of age, are married, as compared with per cent of the males; and 65.2 per cent of the females from 20 to 24 years are married, as compared with 359 per cent of the males. For those aged 25 10 34 the percentages are S3.3 and 73.7, respectively. In the next age group B to A years, the difference practically disappears. That there is larger proportion of widows than of widowers may indicate that men more often remarry than women, but, since husbands are generally older than their wives, the marriage relationship is in fact more often broken by death of the husband than by death of the wife.
 Dwellings and Families.
 The total number of dwellings in Arkansas is 327,625, and the total nun. Der of families 333,36S, indicating that in very few cases does more than one family occupy a dwelling. The aver age number of persons per dwelling Is AS
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