342 DOES IT PAY TO EDUCATE THE NATIVE.'' 



therefore in position to offer statistical answers to the folltiwing 

 questions : — 



Question i. — ^'Vhat are the 353 students who left Amanzim- 

 toti Institute during the years 1912-1916 now doing? (Sei)arate 

 figures are given for the secondary school and training depart- 

 ments.) 



T.T. S.C. Total. 



Teaching 142 11 153 



Studying 3 11 14 



Married (females) ... 8 — 8 



Blacklisted (females)... 3 — 3 



Working in cities 19 84 103 



France 6 4 10 



Dead 10 10 20 



At Home 8 15 23 



No Address — 18 18 



199 154 353 



From these figures it will be seen that of the 353 students, 

 10 are in France and 103 are working for Europeans in South 

 Africa, which means that 37 per cent, are wnorkiug to-day for 

 white men. The great majority of the remainder are working for 

 the uplift of their own people, which means that the primary 

 object for which we have taken up educational work is being 

 achieved. Very few are idle or unemployed. Ten per cent, is a 

 generous estimate of those who would be considered as worthless. 

 The remaining 90 per cent, are making good. 



Question 2. — Is the educated man a better and more .sober 

 citizen than the uneducated man ? 



It is admittedly somewhat difficult to get vital statistics on 

 this point, but the following facts are worth noting in this con- 

 nection : — 



(a) Not a single student who left school during the past 

 five years has been imprisoned for any cause whatever. 



(b) In only two instances — one in Johannesburg and one 

 in Durban — did any employer make reference to drink being 

 a special weakness among the 185 cases investigated. 



(c) Of the 136 boys attending school in 1917-1918, I 

 find that 113 or 83 per cent, have never drank native beer 

 or other intoxicating drinks. As these boys range in age 

 from 13 to 25 years, this may not be altogether surprising, 

 but the significant fact is that of this number, 107 or /S> per 

 cent, never had it in their homes; seven, or 5 per cent., did 

 not have it in their homes, but secured it elsewhere; 13, or 

 10 per cent., had it in their homes, but never drank ; while 

 the remaining 16, or 12 per cent., had it in their homes, and 

 drank. In this connection it should be borne in mind that 

 many of the missionary societies have for years been advocat- 

 ing total abstinence, even from native beer, and the above 

 is the response the parents of our students arc making t'> the 

 teachings of temperance. 



