The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Sheet 75

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

ciated Press as follows: “That the average Filipino
child spends less than three years in school and that
the average attainment of children completing four
primary grades is only equal to that of a second-
grade student in the United States, a survey of the
educational system here by a committee of American
experts discloses.

“Recommendations of the educators, who were
headed by Dr. Paul Monroe of Columbia University,
were placed before the Philippine Legislature for
action during the present session.

“On the teaching staff of 27,000 educators only
four Americans were found who had been ade-
quately trained for the work. Due to this condition
of affairs, and owing to the short school-life of each
pupil, the average child gets little of permanent
value from schooling and receives no lasting com-
mand of English.”

Racial Statistics of Missionary Interest.

Negroes in the United States.

About 35 per cent. of the nearly 11,000,000 of
colored citizens live in towns and cities. In spite
of the recent migration of Negroes more than eight
millions still reside in the Southern States, and
the majority of that number are still in the rural
districts. There are about 58 cities containing
10,000 or more Negro inhabitants, 38 in the South
and 21 in the North and West.

The Department of Agriculture estimated in
April, 1923, that 13 per cent. of the Negro farm
laborers of Georgia, 8 per cent. of them in Alabama,
2 per cent. from Florida, and 31% per cent. from
Arkansas had moved north during the preceding
12 months. Observations indicate that only about
10 per cent. return to their former homes. There
has been also a white migration to the North and
West. The number of white people born in the
South, but living in other States increased 780,756
between 1910 and 1920. Because of past conditions
and present economic, political, and other frictional
contacts, there is a great deal of prejudice, mis-
understanding, suspicion,. and ill-feeling between
these two races. JLynchings haye been greatly re-
duced the past four years, but it has now become
a race issue because the past two years all the vic-
tims have been Negroes and the mobs have been
white people.

_ Negroes have made substantial contributions to
almost every department of American life — agri-
culture, industry, literature, education, art, music,

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science, invention, and religion. Negro folk-songs
have been called the only original American music.

This wholesale movement of both populations
makes understanding and adjustment imperative.
There are problems of relations in health, housing,
education, industry and agriculture, safety of human
life, and in other fields.

Jews in the United States.

There are in America about 3,500,000 Jews, or
25 per cent. of the Jews of the world. About two-

A Moro Girl of the Philippines.

fifths of this number live in. New York City. The
other three-fifths are found in the other larger cities
of the United States, though there is probably no
town in the country with a population of 5,000 and
over that cannot boast of at least one Jewish family.

Orientals in the United States.

Chinese, Japanese, East Indians, Koreans, and
Filipinos in continental United States, according to
the census of 1920, numbered 182,137, including
some 50,000 born in America. A large majority of
these live in California, although a small number
of each race is found in nearly every city of size in
the United States.