The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-30
RIVER INDIANS
 BUT MORE BLACKS
*aeial Statistics in United States Show Interesting Changes-Total Population of Nation Now Given
 at 105 Millions.

Washington, D. C., June 24.-The 3.ifeau of the Census, Department of 'Shnlnerce, today issued a preliminary Element giving the composition of he population of the United States |ceording to color or race, as shown N the census taken as of January 1, DO.
 The total population of the United '(ates, 105,710,620, comprises 4,822,- A1 white persons, 1O,436,013 negroes, tR ,959 Indians, 111,025 Japanese, a, F &6 Chinese. 5,603 Filipinos, 2,505 lbdus, 1.280 Koreans and 147 others Hawaiians, Malays, Morris, Nd Samoans]. The corresponding & for 1910 were as fol,0W ST. & 55I white persons, 9e2I,368 ne- :xbes, 265,883 inaianss 41,l54 Japan M ,55l Chinese, loJ tlilpinoa, 2,- ' Eiudus. 151 Koreans, and $ Otl- 'fk lMaorls) The atas of iacEeaaa 'Ef he principal raees duImE. the de- a< ~ Total population, lA9 per 
 & Jap3nees 5a9 per gnl The
 ppulatlan deCrasecd by a.0 |kr cent sad the Chinese p2paiatioa 9 l3. p ny
 he increase in he white |&E ulati0u during toe rc nt decade, Hsper cent, $ considerably less than ht pouQlng rate for the period H1 ., which was 21.3 per cent. This frlino is accounted fer mainly by the Heat reduction in the volume or im- A aton during the 2 I55 Ci the YprG war. An estimate based on the
 0f DiIlas over death and ca the
 of emigration over immigra- i<n yields 9 total differing by only a. sNali fraction ot ] per cent from the Ma white population enumer9ted #Iho rate Of increase in the negro which is not perceptiliy Heeted by immigration or emigration &by far the lowest on record. #Ihe total numerical increase in the |egro population during the decade Fes 635,250. Of this increase, A72,- I1S, or nearly three-fourths, tooK IIace in the North and West, while Hly l62, ,S32, or about one-fourth fas reported for the South, despite he fact that about 85 per cent of the ptal negro population is still found d the South
 &sThe decrease in the Indian popula- Ion as enumerated, is probably to be kcounted for in part by the enumer- ipn, as Indians in 1910 and as whites ii 1920, of certain persons having only Nght traces of Indian blood. In 1910 Special rule was made to secure a bmplete enumeration of all persons Ewing any perceptible amount of ln- Ian blood, for purpose of preparing a |necial report showing tribal rela- nns, purity of Indian blood etc; and Is probable that for this reason a number of persons who Wuld ordinarily have been reported s whites were enumerated as Indians q 1910. This assumption is borne |bt by a comparison of the totals hown for the Indians population at he last four censuses-the only ones t which a complete enumeration of be Indian population has been att empted. These are: 1920, 242,959; BIO, 265,683; 1900, 237,196; 1890, 4S, ,253. Of the total decfease in the ndian population between 1910 and 920, amounting to 22,724, by far the heater part, 18,S76, took place in Ok ahoma alone. The only pronounced ncrease was reported for North Car lina-from 1851 to 11,824. The only ther states which had, in 1920, 1000 n more Indian inhabitants and which eported increases in Indian popula- lon were Louisiana, Texas, Montana, krizona and California.