Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-20
The Country Home
N Some Interesting Figures for
Georgians
BY MRS. w. lei. FELTON,

Georg1anS
Every ten years the United
States government takes the census"
and when the census authorities pub
fish their report we know a good deal
more concerning our own country
it's population and resources. The
census report Of 1920 is out and the
readers Of the Country Home Column
will be as much interested as this
scribe has been in the authorized
figures, from a reliable source.
Georgia's total population is set
down at 2,895,832. divided as follows:
whites, 1,6S9,114; negroes, 1,206,365.
There are therefore, more whites
473,749-than negroes. There are
native whites, born in this country,
1,672,92S; foreign born whites, 49,
1856.
Because of the large negro popula-
ton in the southern states, foreign
emigrants have been partial to the
asst and west There are 328,83S IL
literates in Georgia, big percentage
Of the whole. There are 66,537 white
illiterates: Male, 36,735; females.
29,S02. Thus the female population
is the more intelligent
The foreign born illiterates arc
SOL. The number of negro illiterafes
Is ~ 'll5. Male negro illiterates,
The largest county population Is
found in Fulton. The largest city in
the state is Atlanta and Atlanta ha g
population of 20O,616.
1t is frequently said that Fulton
county pays one-tenth of the taxes
of the entire state of Georgia.
t. The ,,s smallest county in the state
only population of 1913. 1t may
happen in the years to come that
Georgia will have a great many lit
tie counties, the craze for making
new counties having completely OBJ
sessed our law-making body, called
the Georgia legislature. Little Echols,
with it's small population, has as
many OFFICIALS as any other in Geor-
gia. 1t is supposed that the craze
for such county offices has piled up
over one hundred sixty in our state.
Alabama has only fifty counties,
and New York with al it's pomp and
power, has only fifty
There are two counties in Geor-
gia with an entire white population,
namely Dawson ana Towns. Forsyth
county some years ago, run out of
it's limits all the negroes. 1t is like
ly few of the colored have been al
lowed to creep back into their old
haunts. They are all in north Geor-
gta. The county which has the larg-
county.
Baker county has only 8,29S people
There are illiterates, 2,186, 6,212 be-
ing able to read and write.
The city. Of Albany has the largest
number Of illiterates in the state,
One-fifth hainp nnab1a TO Tn9d or
write. The population Of Albany is
11,555, with 1883 classed as litter
ates.
Atlanta has the largest population
and less illiteracy than any other
223; negroes, 9,465.
Lee county has the largest percent
age Of negro population. The total
population is 1O,904. The negro popu-
lation is 9.465; whites, 1,439.
1,439.
The next largest is Burke county
negro population is PATS; whites
6,O61.
1 am hoping to get the statistics
on taxes and general expenses. Moth
ing can be more satisfactory to pa
triot than to get the truth and the
facts and it is the census figures
that can be relied upon to give them.
BUDAPEST IS IN HUNGARY
Five Babies Born to This Mother
British physicians are interested II
an authenticated report from Buda-
pest giving the details of the birth
Of quintuplets.
The London Lancet quotes Prof
Barsony, who watched the case, as
saying that such an event occurs once
in 100000 times. In the Budapest
case the mother was forty-one years
of age, and at the time was the
mother Of ten children, including one
pair Of twins.
The mother was taken Ill after
alighting from a street car. She
was removed to a. hospital where the
five births occurred over a period
of two weeks. The mother and the
five babies left the hospital a month
later in healthy condition.
Read it over carefully. This moth
er was only forty-one years old, anc
already the mother Of ten children
including pair Of twins.
If she begun to bear children al
fourteen, about the earliest time the
female natures for maternity she
has born fifteen children in twenty
seven years. Perhaps she will con.
tinue to multiply and replenish the
earth?
Five babies to one mother might
be called a good-sized litter.