Five years later, negro teachers received $536,272, but white teachers received $3,258,352.

In other words, in the former year all the negro teachers received one-fifth as much as all the whites, while five years later they received about one-sixth; that is, something less than one-third the total number of children received about one-seventh of the money expended for instruction.

A part of this wide difference in expenditure may be explained or even defended.

The districts or townships which have voted additional local taxes are usually those in which there are comparatively few negroes.

The average salary paid to negro teachers, although low, is as large as can be earned in most of the occupations open to them, and any sudden or large increase would neither immediately raise the standard of competency nor insure a much larger proportion of the ability of the race.