A recent addition to the statistical file of the chamber of commerce in Durham is the binding and indexing of the University of North Carolina News Letter.
The News Letter is one of the most valuable newspaper sheets in the state. It appears weekly and contains, on a single sheet for ready reference, statistics of practically every nature pertaining to the state of North Carolina. It is published for the good of the Old North State. It has as its goal the education of North Carolinians as to the value and resources f the state in which they live. Much of the success already achieved can be measured by the state’s steady progress.
The chamber of commerce has taken these weekly sheets and put them in a binder. An index has been so prepared that almost any question that might arise concerning state statistics can be readily referred to, and the reference will be authentic.
--Durham county ranks 17th in the number of people per automobile in the state. There are 3,751 automobiles, or one car to every 11.8 inhabitants. Guilford county leads with one car to every 7.9 inhabitants and Graham county is last with one to every 169.4.
--Divorce statistics show that, with the exception of South Carolina, where no divorces are granted, and the District of Columbia, the State of North Carolina leads the Union. There is one divorce in North Carolina to every 39.14 marriages. In Florida there is one divorce to every 8.73 marriages, and in Nevada the ratio is one to about one and a half.
--In the ratio of white farm operators, Durham county ranks 59th in the state with 69.1 percent. Madison county leads with 99.9 percent white and Halifax is last with 29.3.
--North Carolina ranks way down in the Union in native-born white illiterates 10 years old and over. Its percent is 8.2., Louisiana and New Mexico are the only two states with a worse showing in 1920.
--In livestock values per farm, North Carolina ranks 47th in the United States. Durham county ranks 90th in the state. --In personal property per inhabitant, Durham county leads the state, with a value of $1,480 per person. Forsyth is second with $745, and Macon is last with $93.
There are countless other statistical references that are open to the public. There are interesting sidelights and statistics on road advertising, Americanism, county audits, bonded indebtedness, boll weevil, industries, churches, markets, co-education, farm tenancy and ownership, highway construction, labor, murders, negro migration, public welfare, bank savings, taxes, and many other items concerning which the public should have full information if they intend to “Know Their State.”
From the Durham Herald, as reprinted in The University of North Carolina News Letter, Chapel Hill, N.C., July 11, 1923
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