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fortable. Of the schools in Dougherty County, Georgia, Pro- fessor DuBois says :

I saw only one schoolhouse there that could compare in any way with the worst schoolhouse I ever saw in New England. Most of the schoolhouses were either old log huts or were churches colored churches used as school houses."

The following table offers a comparison of the number of schoolhouses, the average value of each, and the total value of school property in three of the representative southern states and three of the northern :

Number of Schools

Value of Each

Total School Property

South Carolina

4,oi8

$ 201

$ 990,OOO

Tennessee

7,l85

426

1.063.^68

Mississippi

6,687

256

1.636.0^5

New York

11,916

7.326

87.202.414

Iowa

I3.Q22

1.702

l8. 227. 740

Massachusetts

4.058

12,069

48,070,710

A second table gives a comparison of the wealth and school expenditure in the same six states: 12

Valuation of Real and Personal Property

Expenditure for Public Schools (Excluding Debt Paid)

Expended for Pub- lic Schools on Each $100 of True Valua- tion of Real and Per- sonal Property

South Carolina

$ 400.011.303

t 450.036

II. 2

Tennessee

887,956,143

1,526,24!

17.2

Mississippi

454 242 688

I. 100. 575

24.4

New York

8,576,701,991

I7.543.88o

20. 5

Iowa

2.287.348.333

6.-,82.q53

27. Q

Massachusetts

2.803.645.447

8,286,062

20.6

In North Carolina 108 new buildings were erected in 1901, and 332 in 1902. In the larger and wealthier districts the problem of building is easily solved; but in the weaker rural districts there is much difficulty to be encountered, as the school fund is barely sufficient to keep the school running. The problem is reaching a solution in many parts of the South through the ten-

11 Report of Industrial Commission, Vol. XV, p. 161. 11 Report of Department of Interior, 1901.