Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-12
AMERICANS ARE
WORKING NATION
More Than Eight of Every
Ten Males, from 10 Up,
Wage Farmers.
3O,09,1,546 HIRE OUT
Qf This Number 14,S55,s2a are Native
Whites Of Native Percentage, j..
2S5,S11 Native Whites and
6,5SS,711 Foreigners.


eight in every ten (S1.3 per cent,
males 10 years Of age and over in tt,
United States in 1910 were engaged
in gainful occupations, according tC
the figures presented in the report
on occupations recently issued by
William J. Harris, director of The
y census, department Of commerce. Ii
the tabulation of occupations for this
report, all gainful workers were dis
tributed in the following five age
periods: 10 to Is years; IA to u;
16 to 20; p to "A INCLUDING age un.
known; and 40 years and over. In
the lowest age period, 10 to Is years
the proportion Of males gainfu11y oc-
cupied was one in six GIGS per cent
in the. next age period, IA to 10, tho
proportion more than doubled, being
over two in each five ala per cent; ;
and in the age period 16 to 20 the
proportion increased to almost four
in five (79.2 per cent? The proper
ton was highest for the age period
q to A years Including persons OF
unknown age). In this age period
JO.t pei CCuL vi lh6 IlldlSS NClc S''lil7
fully occupied or stated otherwise
only 3.3 men out OF. every 100 in this
age group were without gainful occu-
patton in 1910. In the highest age
period, As years and over the pro
portion of males gainfully occupied
was $50 per cent.
The proportion of all males 10
years of age and over engaged il
gainful occupations was slightly
larger in 1910 than in 1900, but this
increase was confined to two age
periodjfi 16 to 20 and y to A. In
each OF the other age periods the pro-
portion of gainful workers was small
Ter in 1910 than in 1900, the decrease
being greatest for the age period IA
to Is.
OF the females 10 years of age and
over, 23.4 per cent were engaged III
gainful occupations in 1910. The pro
portion was s per cent in the age
period 10 TO 10; 1913 per cent in the
age period IA to 10; 1913 per cent in
the age period 16 to 20; 26.3 per cent
in the age period q to IA; and l5.7
per cent in the age period 40 pears
and over. The large proportion OF
the females 16 to 20 years OF age en-
gagged in gainful occupations is &C
counted for by the fact that in this
age period all the females are old
enough to work, and matrimony has
had little effect in decreasing the
J number of workers.
There was marked increase from
1900 to 1910 in the proportion OF all
females 10 years of age and over en-
gagged in gainful occupations, or from
1873 to 23.4 per cent. In eacr age
period also the proportion of the
gaiaful workers was considerably
larger in 1910 than in 1900, and, as
was true also of the males, the IN
crease was most marked for the age
periad 16 to 20.
Color or Race of Workers.
OF the 30,091 1854 gainfully occupied
males in the United States in 1910,
14,S55,S25 were native whites OF nat
i've parantage, 5,2S5,S11 native whites
of foreign or mixed parentage. $685.
III foreign-born writes, 5,llS'oo4
negroes, and 1868 Indians, Chlnese
Japanese, and all other. The pro-
portion which the gainfully occupied
males formed of all males 10 years OF
age and over in each principal class
of the population was, for native
whites of native parentage, 1873 per
cent: native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage, 76.5 per cent; for
eign-born whites, 80 per cent; ne
groes, STA per cent; and Indians,
Chinese Japanese, and all other, S0.o
per cent
Native white males of native par
entage formed 49.4 per cent OF the
male gainful workers, as compared
with 51.1 per cent of all males lo
wears of age and over; while the cor
Responding percentages for natlVe
white males of foreign or mlxed
narentage were 17.6 as compared
with 1877 per cent for forelgn-porn
white males, 219 as compared win
1913 per cent: and for negro males.
1O.6 as compared with 9.S per cent.
norton which the gainfully occupl-
females. LOSS 500 were native whites
Of native parentage, 1,722,279 native
Whites of foreign or mixed parentage'
1.222.791 foreign-born whites, 2,olo,
9S1 negroes and 1902 Indians, chi
nese. Japanese, and all other. Ihe
nrortion which the gainfully occupi-
ed females formed of all females III
wears of age and over in each prih-
cipal class of the population was Tor
native whites of native parentase'
III per cent; native white OF foreign
or mixed rarentage, 24.6 per cent.
foreign-born white. 21.7 per cent
negroes, 547 per cent; and Indians
Chinese, Japanese, and all other Tl!o
per cent.
Native white females of native par,
entage formed 3S.4 per cent OF ths
female gainful workers, as compateo
with 52.5 per cent of all females ~
years of age and over; while tns
corresponding percentage for native NC
white females Of foreign or mlNeo
narentage were 21,3 as compareo
with 2O.3 per cent; for foreign-poI j
white females. 15.1 as compared wi,A
16.3 per cent; and for negro females
& 90 Is compared with lo.7 per cent