Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-06-01
IOWA POPULATION
Eighty-five Per Cent of Resi-
dents Are American Born.
MILLION lOWANS LEFT STATE
Percent Of Foreign Born Population
In Iowa Is Small and Vast Num-
Der of Residents Are Natives
Of this State.

states, according to Ora Williams,
state document editor of the census.
But there are over a million and
half of Iowa born people who are con-
tributing their genius and strength
to make their native state not the
biggest nor the wealthiest but the
best state in which to make and keep
a home.
The actual number of Iowa born
persons in Iowa is 1,551,914. That is
more than three-fifths of the total
population. 1t is larger percentage
Of the population than ever before.
The increase of percentage has been
twelve in ten years.
The native American population of
the state distinguished from those
born under other flags, numbers g..
0s3,S97. Practically three-fourths Of
these native Americans are Iowa born
and one-fourth born in other states
Of the union. The native born now
number SIS per cent of the entire
population.
The foreign born comprises lis per
cent of the whole. That is 81 per
cent less than the proportion In the
United States. Twenty-Five years ago
the Iowa proportion was 1879 per cent.
From earliest times Iowa drew heavi-
| ly on the older states and II was new
er possible for the foreign born con-
| tingent to catch up with the process
ion. There is no corner, nor section,
nor belt of Iowa distinctly foreign.
Outside of the south the only states
In the union with smaller proper.
ton of foreign born than Iowa are
Indiana, Kansas and Missouri. II place
of birth Is the test Iowa is among the
most American OF all the states.
| Many Errors In Report.
The state census department will
not make report on the earnings of
the Iowa wage workers. When A. U.
Swan, state census director, examined
the census data he discovered that
there were SO many errors in report
ing incomes that the reports are use
less In that particular.
Many of the residents of the state
failed to give the census taker any
answer as to the extent OF their in
come. A number Of wealthy men re-
| fused to make statements of this
character owing to the fact that the
figures might get to the assessor or
the income tax collector, 1t is said.
Some portion of the workers padded
their statements of earnings for ef-
feet.
The state census department win
make the usual report as to classifca-
tons of wage earners by occupations.
Parole Board to Meet.
The state board Of parole is pre-
pairing report to Governor Clarke ON
the application OF ten life prisoners
In Iowa penitentiariss for pardons. II
is reported that the board is favorable
to granting q pardon or. shortening
the sentence Of Charles Thomas to a
definite period. Thomas was convict
ed for the murder Of Mabel scofeld
on circumstantial evidence. He has
been In prison since 1905.
Henry Furry of Polk county on
July IS will have served thirty years
in the penitsntiary for the murder Of
his brother-in-law. Owing to his fee
BILE condition, 1t is reported the board
may recommend that the governor
parole Furry so he may 60 to the
soldiers home at Marshalltown.
Rush EpiIeptio Colony BuiIdings.
The state epileptic colony at Wood
ward is over half complete. The cost
of the thirteen buildings now under
way will be about 100000. y
The institution is to be started out
modestly. The general plan provides
for three groups OF buildings, OF
which the medical group, now being
constructed, will be in the center. The
structures to be provided in the fut.
ure will be cottages for the patients.
All the buildings are to be one story
in height. There will be no stair
ways.
Cannot Pay Compensation Claim.
Although Private ]. H. Green, Jr.,
OF Clinton, was killed in the Iowa Ma
tional Guard maneuvers at Sparta,
Wis, last August, the state has found
no way to pay his mother compensa-
ton of $500 as ordered by the in
dustrial commission.
The state elected to carry its own
industrial insurance and satisfied the
Industrial and Insurance commission
ers that 1t was able to do so. Now
that case arises in which payment
Is required the state has been Unable
to meet its obligation.
Warden Defends Broom Factory.
Warden j. C. Sanders OF the Fort
Madison penitentiary is defending the
broom industry at the prison from
attack by Iowa broom manufacturers.
The manufacturers and the board
OF control held a conference at the
state house, at which the state was
requested to discontinue the making
! Of brooms.
The warden says he must keep his
prisoners employed and that the out
! put of the broom factory is sold at
market prices, thus causing no injury
to the Independent manufacturers.
Commission Makes Big Refund.
The Iowa commission to the Pana-
ma.Pacifc exposition will refund to
the state treasury total of s1S,695.57
and $4,000 worth of cash credits, ac-
cording to q report OF the secretary
1 of the commission.