The log cabin Democrat., 1921-06-18

ulation were Desha, 75.S, Phillips 73.9 and Chicot with 73S. At the other end of the comparative figures,
 Baxter, Boone, Clay and Cleburne counties, having less than one-tenth of one per cent of negroes, are placed
 in the same group by the report Searcy and Stone had 2 per cent
 Polk |, and Randolph IT, to mention
 some of the other counties scoring low
 Faulkner had 14.9 per cent negro. | For the state as a whole, the negro population was 27 per cent of the to- tai, as compared with 28.1 per cent | in 1910. Of the remainder, native whites comprised 72.2 per cent, and foreign born whites 8 per cent.
 School attendance figures, with the population divided into rural and ur- ban divisions, are also included in the report. Between the ages of 5 to 20 years, the state had a population of 664 ,1O1, of whom 406,727 attended school. However, in making it's school enumeration, the bureau listed as at- tending school any one who entered an educational institution of any sort between September 1, 1919, and Jan uary 1, 1920, without regard for per iod in which attendance was main tained Of the urban population l.. 462 between the ages of and years attended school, the percentage being 39.2; between the ages of and 13, the attendance was 37 ,222 or 93.7 per cent, and between the ages of IA and 20, the number was 17,871 or 46.8 per cent. From the figures, it will be seen that those attending dwindled in a marked manner after the age of 14 was reached.
 The rural population, as was to be expected, made poorer showing. Be tween the ages of and 6 years, 27,- 150 entered school, the percentage be- ing BPS; between the ages of 2 and IA, the number was 219,011 or 90.3 per cent, and between IA and 20, the total was 100,9S1 or 46.1 per cent. Native whites as class averaged higher than the state as a whole. Of the population between and 20 years, 30S,023 or 65.1 per cent of the total entered school. Of the foreign born white, only 40.6 per cent of the total entered, and for the negroes, the percentage was 51.1.
 Any person over 20 years of age unable to write, not necessarily in the English language, was judged by the bureau to be an illiterate. All class es in the state over this age totaled 302,905, of which number 121,837 were illiterate, according to the hu- reau's standards, the percentage be- ing 9.4. Subdivided on the score of sex, males and females were not far apart on the percentage column. Nine and six-tenths of the male population above this age was illiterate and 9.1 per cent of the females.
 Educators working on the problem of illiteracy may glean some hope that the younger the class groups, the smaller the per cent of illiterates. For example, between the ages of 10 and 15 years, the percentage is only 5.2, while from Fl years and up, the state shows 11.5 per cent for all class es. Negro illiterates are evidently numerous. Of a total negro popula- tion of 10 years or over, 79,245 are illiterates, or 21.8 per cent. Negro females also rank lower than males on this low standard of intelligence For the class 21 years or over, PTS per cent are illiterate, while the males of the sage age show only 26.4 per cent. Considered in urban and rural groups, all classes in the state Fl years or over, have in urban sec. tions 6.1 per cent of their total in the illiterate class, while the rural pop ulation of the same age registers 12,8 per cent.
 Any ground for encouragement comes from comparison of 1910 and 1920 census reports on this score For the state as a whole, the group 10 years or over had 126 per cent of its number illiterate. As stated above, the percentage for 1920 was 94. Some progress was made during the decade in reducing the number of il- literates.
 Germany led the countries which have supplied the states foreign born population. German born citizens in