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KOKTH DAKOTA

$270,348; income $382,947; annual State appropria- tion $235,000; faculty 142; students 1406; North Carolina College for Women (formerly the State Normal and Industrial College) at Greensboro, build- ings. 17; annual State appropriation, $165,000; faculty, 92, students, 784; North Carolina State Col- lege of Agriculture and Engineering (formerly the North Carolina Collie of Agncultursu and Mechanic Arts), State appropriation, $150,000, Federal appro- priation, $33,500; faculty 80, students, 1056. The Caswell Training School for Mental Defectives was founded in 1911 and opened in 1914, and the Stone- wall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School, in 1907. The State laws governing private or paro- chial schools include the following: The general assembly may exempt from taxation property held for educational, scientific, literary, charitable, or religious purposes (111-5). Bible reading is neither permitted nor excluded in the public schools.

Recent Leoislation and Hibtort. — In 1915 was passed the measure known as the Anti-Jug Act, forbidding shipment to and receipt by any person of more than one quart of spirituous liquor ana five gal- lons of malt beverage every fifteen days. 'In 1917 the contract system of leasing prisoners was forbidden and provision made for a State-use system on which the

Prisoners were put to work to make articles for the tate. In the same year the budget system was adopted and the Federal Child Labor Law, prohibit- ing shipment in interstate commerce of products ^of child laoor was declared unconstitutional by a justice of the Supreme Court; the prison law was revised and modemizied. The Federal Prohibition Amendment was ratified on 14 Januanr, 1919. Miscegenetic mar- riages are forbidden. The laws of 1917 require the return of the marria^ license or certificate to the register of deeds withm 60 days after the solenmizar tion. In 1921 a law was passed reouirin^ the appli- cant for a marriage license to file a pnysician's certifi- cate, statinjg that he is free from hannful disease, is neither an idiot, imbecile, or of unsound mind. Di- vorce is granted if the parties have lived separately for five years (not ten, as formerly).

During the European War the State furnished 73,003 soldiers or 1.94 per cent of the United States Anny. The North Carolina members of the national guard joined the 30th Division at Camp Sevier, South Carolina and those of the national army, the 81st Division at Jackson, South Carolina. The summary of casualties among the North Carolina members of the American Expeditionary Force gives the following figures: deceased, 63 officers, 1547 men; prisoners, 7 officers, 53 men^ wounded, 173 officers, 3955 men.

Reugion — Religious statistics from census of reli- gious bodies, 1916:

No.

Number

No.

lurch

lifices

Value of

Denomination

of

of

Chui ch

Orgs.

Members

opa

Property

All denominations.

9.736

1.080.723

9,135

$25,523,323

Baptists (colored).

1,520

223.792

1.491

2.440.868

Baptists (white)...

2.728

316.221

2,514

6.720,470

Christian

184

18,299

178

321,826

Con^fregationalists.

61

3,125

68

133,229

Disciples

173

20,095

162

339.229

Friends

71

8.631

65

160.389

Lutherans

195

22.895

181

812.866

Methodists(nesro).

1.255

112,042

1.227

2,820,904

Methodists(wUte).

2.104

231,814

2,015

6,116,074

Presbyterians and

Reformed

767

80,504

690

4.293,665

Protestant

Episcopalians. . ..

282

18.545

261

1,467,400

Roman Catholic. ..

89

4.989

51

397.310

Adventists

53

2,817

35

39,835

NoBTH Carolina, Vicariate Apostouc op (Caro- LiNiB Septentrionaub, cf . C. E., XI— 108a), U.S.A.

The Abbot-Ordinary of the abbey nuUius of Bel- mont, which embraces the same territory as the vicariate, is also vicar Apostolic of North Carolina. The present civar apostolic (1922) Rt. Rev. Leo Haid, titular bishop of Messena, was made an assistant at the pontifical throne 15 July, 1914. The Benedictine and Josephite Fathers are established in this territory, as well as the Sisters of Mercy and Sisters of Christian Education. According to 1921 statistics it comprises a Catholic population of 8254, 24 secular and 21 regular clergy, 23 parishes, 40 missions with churches, 60 mission sta- tions, 5 chapels, 28 Brothers, 107 religious women, 1 seminary with 20 students, 1 college for boys with 100 students, 2 preparatory schools for boys with 69 pupils, 2 colleges for girls with 250 students, 16 parochial schools with 573 white and 396 colored children, 2 orphanages with 125 orphans, 1513 young people under Catholic care and 3 hospitals.

North DakoU (cf. C. E., Xl-llld)— The area of the State of North Dakota is 70,837 8<{uare miles, of which 712 are water. The population m 1920 was 646,872, an increase of 12.1 per cent, since 1910. Of this, 136 per cent, is rural; 86.4, urban. The density is 9.2 persons per square mile. The largest cities are Fargo 21,961; Grand Forks 14^10; Minot 10,476.

Economic Status. — North Dakota ranks nigh as an agricultural State. In 1920 there were 77,690 farms, with an area of 36.214,751 acres, worth $1,- 759, 742 ,995 . The principal crops were cereals , valued at $301,782,935; other grass and seeds, $215,764,634; hay and forage, $15,583,209; vegetables, $56,583,209: fruit, $13,725,227. About 649,940 acres were devoted to flaxseed and 2,972,082 bushels were harvested. There were about 2,956,000 live stock, worth $153,- 361 ,490. Irrigation is on the increase; 340 farms were irrigated in 1920 and the area to be irrigated under the Federal Reclamation Act extends to 57,000 acres. The forests cover about 679,8(X) acres. There are 132^902 fruit trees and 524 acres of berries. The rise of the dairy industry is remarkable, for the value of milk, cream, and butter-fat sold and of butter and cheese made in 1919 was $19,576,343, an increase of 301 per cent since 1909.

A small amount of manufacturing is carried on in the state. The Federal report of manufactures (1919) gives 894 plants, with 6148 persons engs^g^, earning $6,835^7, a-id producing goods valu^ at $57,373,- 622. The capital invested is $24,549,838. The prin- cipal industries ranked by the value of the proaucts are: flour mill and gristmill products, butter-making, cars and general shop construction and repairs by steam railway companies, printing and publishing newspapers, baking and auto-repairing. Coal is mined extensively in the western part of the State; in 1918 there were 166 mines in operation and 719,733 tons were mined. North Dakota has 5316 miles of railroad. On 1 July, 1919, the bonded debt of the State was $1,230,963; the assessed value of real and personal property $496,978,049.

Education. — ^The school fund of North Dakota is still large, ($19,000,000 in 1918); the apportionment in 1918 was $958,322. In 1919 the number of con- solidated schools was 477; the number of high school pupils 4420. In all, there were in 1918 about 5300 schools with 168,034 pupils and 7160 teachers. The average salanr for teachers is $59 a month. In 1919 the Board of Administration assumed the duties of the Board of Control of Education, and of Regents. The legislative appropriation for the State university in 1918 was $225,400; the number of professors, in- structors, and assistants (1918-19) was 86, and the total attendance 1294. There are normal schools at Minot, Mayville, Dickinson and Valley City, and a new school of science at Wahpeton.