The South is now spending largely more than $100 million on public school education in excess of what the United States thus expended in 1900.
The receipts of Southern universities, colleges and professional schools are now about equal to the receipts of such institutions in the entire country in 1910.
There are nearly as many students in these higher institutions of learning as the number in all similar institutions in the United States in 1900.
There were in 1922, the last available data, 9,247,835 pupils enrolled in the public elementary and secondary schools of the South, as compared with a total of 23,239,227 for the same year in the entire country. Thus the South has nearly 40 per cent as many students in its public schools as the entire country.
It is equally surprising to find that the total number of children in the South between 5 and 17 years of age as given in the report of 1922 is 11,266,775, against a total for the United States of 28,627,201, showing that the South has about 40 per cent of the children between the ages of 5 and 17 years in the United States, a percentage considerably larger than the percentage of children for the whole country.
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The total exports through Southern ports for the calendar year 1924 amounted to $1,627,937,000, or only $117 million less than the total exports from all the ports of the United States in 1910 and more than $510 million in excess of the entire exports from the United States in 1900.
--Manufacturers Record
From page 8 of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, April 28, 1925
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