The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-28

. .I... c.u.u- of the pupils who wer enrolled in the schools. The censu .n.. gathered include 2.29o pupils O
 n.cr number LBS are boys and 115 l ...Is Following is a list of the state and countries in which the schoc m'.Idren of Alaska were born, show
 the numbers from each.
 .gna ni No. O
 Birth Pupil Alaska ...................... 1.30 . Alabama ..-...................
 Arkansas ..................... California .................... Colorado ...................... 9 Connecticut ..................
 Washington. D. c. ............ Idaho ........................ 1 Illinois ...................... l. Indiana .-.................... Iowa ....................
 ansas ....................
 atucky ....................
 Louisiana .................... Maine ........................
 Massachusetts ................ Michigan ..................... 1 Minnesota .................... 9 Missouri ...................... Montana ...................... 9 Nebraska .................... NaFada ................--.... New Jersey .................. New Hampshire .............. North Dakota ................ II New Mexico .................. | New York .................... | Ohio ......... ........................ Oklahoma ...................
 Oregon ...................... g. PeunsEIyania ................. I Rhode Island .................. south Carolina ............... South Dakota .................. Tennessee -.................. Texas ................ .......... tab .-.................. Virginia ......-.............
 Washington ................... 36 West Virginia .................. Wisconsin .............,............ Wyoming ....................... Argentina ......................
 Ezslr'a ........ ................. Australia .....,................ Canada ....................... 10C una .......... ...............
 Denmark .........,............
 I,ng'and ......................... . n.and .--.-...'... ................... 1; Germany ....................... 1 Greece ........................... l Hawaii .................... Lhoia ...'....' .'........,''.....' Japan ..................... 1 Mexico .....,.................. .al"dE ...... ............. '.......... Y Panama .......,............ Philippines ..................... Russia ,......................... 1C Scotland .....,............... 1C Serbia ,..................
 IL will be noted that more than one
 alf the children in the schools iron which reports were received werC
 a n in Alaska. This fact is interest ing from the standpoint of the light which is thrown upon the stability ot the territory. Alaska can now be con sidered not as a land of the prospec- Tor and adventurer, but as a country O romes and f1resides, where industry l@ stabilized and where a permanent population is being built up.
 Our nearest neighbors, Washington and Canada, hold second and thirC places respectively, with contribu tions of 367 and 1O6 children to the school population of Alaska. In all forty-one of the forty-eight states in
 Hn Union are represented by figures ranging from 367 to |
 In addition to this large representa- ton of states, native sons and daugh- ters of tweney-one foreign countries are being educated in the public schools of Alaska.
 The statistics here presented should suffice to make clear to those who are not residents of Alaska that they are not materially different from those ot the states, with the exception that perhaps the group is more cosmOpOli- tan in character, a circumstance which contributes to a higher degree of mental development, as is evidence ed by the results obtained from a ser ie5 of standard tests given to the pupils of both high and elementary schools during the past year. If sta tiStiCs for the remaining thousand school children in the schools from which no report was received were available, there is little doubt that a -tin greater number of states and foreign countries would be represent ed.
 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.