The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

Total ..............s 7s.155.00
| These libraries have been created
through the agency of the rural school
| library law.
Under its provisions, when a school
district contributes $40 for a library
and the commissioners court $40, the
state contributes SO.
| Several years ago a law was enact
ed providing for the establishment of
high schools in the respective coun-
ties.
Under the provisions of this law the
state appropriated sSooO.oo0 for high
school upon certain conditions required
| of the counties.
| Fifty counties have complied with
these conditions and high schools have
been erected
In 1913, there was an enrolment of 4470
in these schools, an average of 81 to the
school.
The total receipts for these schools
We're sls7,54o61, and the disbursements
| the same.
| The value of these 90 high schools is
s639Soo, and of the equipment $50 go; total
$67S, $50.
] There are 1000 volumes in the libraries
OF these schools, of the value of 1896
The state has nine agricultural schools
| one In each congressional district
In 1913 the enrolment in these schools
was l4l7, an average of 164 in each
| me state appropriated $500 to each of
these schools annually, total of $40, 500.
The receipts from other sources were
s2S. I6SB, making a total Of $50, PESOS.
| The value of the property of these
! schools is $19O,700, and equipment $l4 400; /;
| total $205, ,100
| Inc state has six white normal schools
and one colored, and contributes to the
| support or the colored Institutes at Nor
nal and Tuskegee.
| The enrolment in the six white schools
1 was HSl, an average of 356, and in the
1 tlree colored was 4l2S an average of 1921
| The state appropriates $4,000 for the
white schools. and s24,500 for the colored;
total of $l14,500.
The White schools receive 500, 4S7. "a from
other sources, and the colored S423, 1896
Inis makes the total receipts of these
| schools S3s, 333. 81
| or this amount $685., ,0S2. .S5 are receipts of
the Tuskegee institute
| This is little over 60 per cent of all
| the receipts for these schools
The value of the property of the white
| schools is $S96,000, of equipment S4S, 500, of
The value of property of the coored
| schools is ISl2,646, equipment s2S3, ,sS1 and
| libraries s16 100-total s457 600
| libraries S12,450-total 1,60S, ,9T7
| The total value of the property of all
| these schools is s1,7Os GAG. equipment $S31,- :
Sl libraries $2S,550-total s2,o6S, ,557.
The value of the property of the Tus-
keeeee institute is $1,122,646 equipment
S24S, ,SS1-total $1,31 ,577.
| This is nearly 20 per cent of the en-
| tire value of the property CT the normal
schools.
The enrolment of the Alabama Girls
Technical institute for 1918 was 525.
The total receipts were S116S71.
The value of buildings is 100000 dorni-
tories s225,000, other property $6S,5O0-total
| $s93 5O0
The enrolment of the Alabama Poly
technic institute for 1913 was 79l. The re.
ceipts were $1S6,4S7.
The value of buildings is s355,000. dormi-
tories $4,000, other property $164, 1S0-total
$f59, ,1So.
Endowed fund, s2S4,50o
The enrolment of the University of
Alabama for 1918 was 1912.
OF this number $50 we're regular stu
dents and 562 students in the summer
school.
! The receipts were S152527.
The value of buildings is 5000 dormi-
| tories 100000. equipment $25O,o0o-total ST.
| 10000.
Endowment fund, s543. 933.
The total value of the white public
schools, colleges and university is S11.-
| 1s,eo0. and of the colored 2,2742 249, making
tie lOtdl Ndluc VI SUCH property Slo,oio--
49,
III addition there was an enrolment of
35f1 in white private ana denominatonal
schools and colleges and 3605 in colored.
The receipts of the white schools were
$t1n,7 724 and of the colored $3.50, 471-total
$7sO.175.
The total value of the property and
equipment of the white schools is s2,72o,
0oo, and of the colored s1,159, 692-total
So, ,SS9, ,692.
These figures show a remarkable devel-
opment when we take into consideration
the comparatively recent organization and
establishment of our public school sys-
tenn.
Percentage of 1lliteracy
Notwithstanding the remarkable de-
velopment of Alabama's S public school sys-
tenn, our state stands only four above
other states, and on an equality with a
fifth in illiteracy of its white popula-
tion and is only above South Carolina in
the illteracy of its colored population.
AS previously stated Alabama con-
tributes about "a per capita to the edu-
cation of its children.
This is the lowest OF any state in the
union except South Carolina. which is a
few cents less.
Washington contributes s32 per capita