Speech #670011892

These tables demonstrate (a) that the total percentage of foreignborn population in the United States is 14.5 per cent. (b) that the percentage of children between the ages of 6 and 14 of native white parentage who attend schools is 83.5. (c) that the percentage of children of all classes between the :1ges of 6 and 14 who attend school is 81.4. (d) -that the percentage of whites between the ages of 6 and 14 who attend school where one or both of the parents are foreign is 88 per cent in the whole United States88 per cent. as against the general average of 81.4 per cent. Moreover. as another test. the States having the largest percentage of foreignborn population have the lowest percentage of illiteracy. and the States having the smallest percentage of foreignborn population have a high percentage of illiteracy. Rhode Island has an immigrant population of 32.8 per cent and its school attendance is 91.2 per cent. while South Carolinas immigrant population is 0.4 per cent and its schsool attendance is 72.1 per.cent. Massachusetts has an immigrant population of 31.2 per cent and a school attendance of Q3.9 per cent. while North Carolinas immigrant population is 0.3 per cent and its school attendance 75.9 per cent. New Yorks immigrant population is 29.9 per cent and her school attendance 89.9 per cent. while Mississippis immigrant population is 0.5 per cent ant its school attendance 84.2 per cent. Connecticuts immigrant population is 29.5 per cent and its school attendance 92.6 per cent. while Georgias immigrant population is 0.6 per cent and its school attendance only 74.8 per cent. North Dakotas immigrant population is 27.1 per cent and its school attendance 82.7 per cent. while Tennessees immigrant population is 0.8 per cent and its school attendance is 75.2 per cent. What a sad commentary it is upon the nativeborn American citizen that the foreigner who comes to this country sends his children to school better than the man born and reared under the American flag. There is no better test of citizenship than the fact that the father and the mother will deny themselves the comforts of life in order to send their childreln to the public schools.