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North Central states; but the children of foreign parents show nearly three times as high a ratio in the North Atlantic states as in the North Central states. In every one of the North Atlantic states the showing is against the children of foreign-born parents ; but in every one of the North Central states, except Illinois and North Dakota, the showing is in favor of the chil- dren of foreign-born parents. Of the western states, five show against the native born and six against the foreign born. These facts are very remarkable and call for a discriminating study of the elements of the foreign population, which will be attempted in a later article.

The accompanying diagrams on page 375 illustrate the differ- ence between the method of comparison followed by Mr. Hewes and that followed in the present article. An examination of the diagrams will reveal the fact that the ratio of foreign prisoners, which was 67 per cent, greater than the average by Mr. Hewes' method, is 20 per cent, less than the average by the method fol- lowed in this article ; that the ratio of native-born prisoners, which is 15 per cent, less than the average by the first method, is 10 per cent, more than the average by the second method ; while that of native-born children, having both parents foreign born, is 50 per cent, more than the average by the first method and 40 per cent, more than the average by the second method.

HASTINGS H. HART,

General Secretary National Conference of ST. PAUL, Minn. Charities and Correction.

NOTE. For the benefit of any student who may wish to verify the figures here given, the method of computing them is stated, as follows :

By reference to the Census Compendium, Part I, page 764, the num- ber of males of voting age for the North Atlantic Division is seen to be 5,055,239; column 2 shows the total number of native born to be 3,375,389 ; column 3 shows the total number of foreign born to be 1,679,850. By refer- ence to column 7, the number of natives having parents foreign is seen to be 823,422 ; deducting this number from the total native born in column 2, we have 2,551,967 natives born of native parents.

By reference to the census volume on Crime, Pauperism and Benevo- lence, Part II, page 4, column i, the total number of male prisoners in the