Show BIRTH RATE increasing the american birth rate advanced 14 per cent in ili 1920 as compared th 1919 the census bureau an bounced last week the birth rate as per iper cent in 1919 according a 0 the bureau figures the rate last par ear however was 13 per cent I lie ie e ow the rate of 1916 which the bureau declared may be looked upon as i more normal year as it pr preceded seceded lie influenza epidemic and the en cn rance of the united states into frito the var ar the highest birth rate for the lifto population last year was report d from north carolina with ir cent and the lowest for call ornia with per cent the bliest rate for or the colored on in which the bureaus class fi aaion includes negroes indians chinese and japanese were and 93 per cent for washington and alifornia all fornia respectively |