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57,895. Of the entire population (1,173)067 males and 1,163,918 females), there are 1,885,993 whites and 451,758 negroes (222,758 males and 229,119 females). The native whites numbered 1 ,870,515 and the foreign born, 15,478. Most of the foreign born came from England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Russia. Of the population of ten years of age and over (1,770,- 762) 182,629 were illiterate (10.3% as against 13.6 in 1910).

public schools is obligatory. The laws governing private and parochial schools are as follows: The legislature shall exempt from taxation such property as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational (11-28). The flag must be displayed on or near each school building. In 1919 a State board of administration was created to consist of the governor, state treasurer, and the general manager of state institutions, and to

Economic Status. — Tennessee is forging ahead have charge of all state institutions, penal, reforma- agriculturally, the number of farms (252,774), show- tory, and charitable. "Victory Day, 11 Novemb^*, ing an increase of .27 % since 1910^ and the value of was made a le^al holiday. In the same year a de- farm property ($1 ,251 ,964.585), an mcrease of 104.4% partment of university extension to be conducted by In these farms were included 19,510,856 acres, of the University of Tennessee was established for the which 11,185.302 were in improved land. The purpose of vocational and industrial training in wage value of the live stock, includmg 317,921 horses, earning employments. Provision was also made for 352,510 mules, 1,161,846 cattle, 346,196 sheep, the removed of the State Training and Agricultural was $173,522,135. The chief crops were: com 70,- School for Boys to the ''Herbert Domain" and of the 639,252 bushels, worth $127,150,649; wheat 6,362,- inmates of the Tennessee Industrial School to the state- 357 bushels, worth $14,506,174; hay 967.314 tons, owned property in Davidson County, now occupied $29,666,979; tobacco 112,367,567 pounds, worth by the State Training and Agricultural School for $24,720,869; cotton 306,974 bales, worth $48,808,866; Boys. The East Tennessee Female Institute waA sugar 146,734 tons, worth $9,537,710. The dairy, transferred to the State University, poultry, eggs, honey, and wax were worth $50,409,- Recent History and Legislation. — In 1913 were 776. Feanuts are grown in the Tennessee Valley, passed an Act providing for the* parole of convicts, a The wool clip in 1919 was 2,052^000 pounds. Al- measure removing the disabilities of married women though the number of manufactunng establishments on account of coverture and a Vital Statistics Act.

(4589) showed in 1919 a decrease of 3.9% since 1914, In 1914 a so-called nuisance bill had for its purpose the the value of theproducts ($556,271,000) revealed an closing of every saloon, gambling house, and dis- increase of 179%. The 113,418 persons engaged in reputable resort in the State, by providing that no manufacture received for their services $106^90,000; liquor could be sold within tour miles of a school, the capital invested was $410,351,000. The pro- In 1917 prohibition became more effective, by a law ductions of the mines were: coai $13,592,998; pnos- forbidding the importation of liquor into the State, phates $2,101,040; iron $10,338,159; clay products, In 1915 it was ^own that the experiment of working $1,960,226; limestone $504,599; stone $1,635,573; the negro convicts on State roads was successful all otners $17,840,520; aggregating $46,012,889. enough to warrant its continuance. The contract The Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers are natural system of letting out prison labor to private con- waterways ana the State contains 4075 miles of rail- tractors was forbidden. In 1919 pensions were way, brides 467 miles of electric railway. The granted to widows whose husbands were killed or died bonded debt, including old bonds unfunded., on 13 while in active service in the Civil War and to the June, 1919, amounted to $17,988,352. The assessed widows of deceased soldiers who were married to such value of property in the same year, including real soldiers prior to the year 1890, if such widows are of and personal property^ was $726,369,281. S?^^ moral character and in indigent circumstances.

Reliqion. — ^Accordmg to the Census Bulletin of The annual appropriation for the purpose is $1,-

1916 the church membership of all denominations 029,000. Capital punishment was aoolisned in 1915.

was 840,133; total Protestant bodies 817.118; Baptists The Federal Suffrage Amendment was ratified on

South and National 311,517; Regular Baptists 2582; 18 August, 19^; the prohibition amendment on 8

Free Will Baptists 4681; Duck River, etc. (Baptist January, 1919.

Church of Cnrist) 4589; Primitive Baptists 8925; During the European War the State contributed Colored Primitive Baptists 811; Congregationalists 75,825 soldiers to the United States Army (2.02%). 2185; Disciples of Chnst 21,672: Churches of Christ The Tennessee members of the national guard joined 63,521; Lutherans 3541; Methodist Episcopal the 30th Division at Camp Sevier, South Carolina; 56,484; Methodist Protestant 1759; Methodist Epis- those of the national army, the 82d Division at Camp copal Church, South, 167,270; African Methocusts Gordon, Georgia. The summary of casualties among 23,497; Presb3rterian Church in U. S. A. 17,584; the Tennessee members of the American Expedition- Cumberland Presbyterians 27,631; Presbyterian ary Forces is as follows: deceased, 74 officers. 1762 Church in Ul S. 25,606; Presbvtenan Association men; prisoners, 7 officers, 54 men; woundea, 228 Reformed of the South Synod, 1644; Protestant officers, 4065 men. Episcopal Church 9910; United Brethren in Christ

916; ail other Protestant bodies 74,115; Catholic Teplc, Diocese op (Tepicbnsis; cf. C. E., XIV —

Church 23,015; Jewish Congregations 2022. For 513c), in the territory of Tepic. Mexico, suffragan of

Catholic statistics see Nashville, Diocese of. Guadalajara. This see is fiUea by Rt. Rev. Manuel

Education. — School attendance is now com- Azpeitia Palomar, a canon of Guadalajara, appointed

pulsory during the entire term for children between a prothonotary apostolic 14 July, 1905, and named

7 and 16 years of age. The employment of children bi&op 1 August, 1919, succeedmg Rt. Rev. Andr6

under 14 years of a^e in workshops, factories and Segura y Domfnguez, d. in August, 1918. T^is

mines is illegal. With a scholastic population of diocese, which covers an area of 11,583 square miles,

842,199, of which 681,470 are whites and 160,710 includes 180,000 inhabitans, 17 parishes, 98 secular

are colored, there were (1920) enrolled in the public priests, 10 seminarians, 30 churches (of which one is

schools of Tennessee 443,333 white children and the celebrated church of Our Lady of Falpa,) and 29

80,356 negroes. There are separate schools for chapels, whites and negroes. In 1918 the State had 7313

public elementary schools, and 226 public high Teraino, DidcbsB of (Aprotinbnsis or Tbera*

schools. The two public normal schools had 71 bcensis; cf. C. E., XrV— 614b), in southern Italy;

teachers and 914 pupils. In 1917-18 the ex^ directly subject to the Boly See. Hiis see was filled

penditure was $12|480,163. Bible reading in the by - Rt. Rev. Akssandro Beojamino Zanecchia>