New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-10-19
MANY / | C ]. | !, !, i
In: MINNESOTA i ] !: s. ] / !
tt- .tl. - ~ = 4sfsfaa5 -
sl.i PER CENT OF RESIDENTS
ARE UNDER rs YEARS,
SAYS CENSUS.
314, COS PUPILS IN SCHOOLS.
s4,4s7 ILLITERATEs IN
COMMONWEALTH.

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evidenced by report Of the Depart
ment of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census, at Washington, D. c., relative
to the number of children found in our
commonwealth by the census enumer-
ators last year. This is, indeed, very
gratifying and proves that Minnesota
is doing her share toward increasing
the population of the United States. u
31.1 Per Cent Under 49,
According to the census of $50, 81 4
per cent, or over three-tenths of the
people in Minnesota are either infants
or children under Is years of age;s 90
per cent are young people, Is to 10
years old; 1873 per cent are men and
women in the prime Of life, being from
20 to A years old, while 20.8 per cent,
being As years Of age and over, are
well along in middle life, if they have
not reached old age.
More Children on Farms.
The urban population, as compared
with the rural shows some rather
striking differences in age, the per-
centage 20 to A years of age being
s43.7 for the urban population, as COM
pared with 34.9 for the rural, while
the percentage under Is years OF age
is only 25.8 in the urban population,
as against 34.6 in the rural. These
differences may indicate larger families
of children in the country than in the
city, but more probably indicate also
the effect of the inning ration to the
city of foreigners and also of native
population coming from the country
and thereby increasing the active adult
population of the cities at the expense
Of the rural districts.
Nearly 7 hree-Fifths Can Vote.
Almost three fifths Of the population
of Minnesota -57.8 per cent, to be
exact-a old enough to vote, being
81 or over. In this class, the men OUT
number the women in the ratio Of Ia
to 100. The males of military age
18 to A. constitute 42.3 per cent Of.
the male population and 22.1 per cent
Of the total population. n
School Attendance High.
The 1920 census gives Minnesota
1856, 1853 children from to Is years Of
age. OF this number, 314,905, or
800 per cent, were reported as attend
ing school. In 1910 the percentage at
tending school was exactly SO per cent,
thus indicating a slight Improvement
as regards school attendance between
1910 and 1920. OF the children ID
and Is years Of age in 1920, 86.2 per
cert were attending school, and Of
those 716 and II years the percentage
was 42.5.
The percentage of children attending
school was approximately the same in
the cities and in the country districts,
the percentage for children in the
urban population Z to s13 years Of age
being 94.5, while in the rural popula-
ton it was 1916. Urban according to
the census definition, 1ncludes all towns
| or cities and other Incorporated places
of z, 500 population or more.
34,4s7 Illiterates. 81
The census enumerators found a
total Of 34,487 illiterate persons 10
years Of age and over in Minnesota in
1920, illiterate meaning unable to
write. OF. this total, 26, 242 are foreign
4 born whites. In the total population
10 years Of age and over, the per-
centage Of illiteracy is 1.S, which, it is
\ gratifying to note, shows a decrease
\ since / go, when twas exactly per
4 cent. For the foreign born whites the
4 percentage is 5.4.
By counties, the percentage of illiter-
acy ranges from q g in Itasca county
to o g in Big Stone county.