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Rh ''actually at school. One half of the negroes get no schooling whatever and one white child in five is left wholly illiterate.''

In the whole south the average citizen gets only three years' schooling. And what sort of schooling is it? The answer may be inferred from what is found elsewhere in this discussion.

In other words, in these states in schoolhouses costing an average of $276 each, under teachers receiving an average salary of $25 per month, we have been giving the children in actual attendance five cents' worth of education a day for 87 days only in the year.

These figures, compared with those indicating like expenditures in the other states of the union, show that the expenditures in those states are from four to six times as great as in the south.

Mr. Geo. S. Dickinson of New Haven, Conn., one of the best informed students of southern conditions, says:

There is no end of bounty bestowed on institutions for the common people in the northern cities. Why, as an American, should I be more interested in the children of Boston or of New Haven than in those of the Carolinas and Georgia? Who are the children of Boston? Sixty-seven per cent, of them are of parentage from beyond the seas. Eighty per cent, of the children of New York are of such parentage, and the story is the same for the other great cities—Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco. More than three quarters of their people are of foreign antecedents: Irish, Germans, French, Italians, Hungarians, Poles, Armenians, Chinese, Russians, etc.