Show IN IN UNCLE SAMS cens S reau at washington am ric S official nose counters are already preparing for the 1940 population check a stupendous job that requires intricate equipment skilled workers from all corners of the nation come census reports by registered mail these are sorted checked edited and finally translated into figures on the card puncher below e A Y 4 jr information compiled each 10 years by the U S census bureau finds its way into thousands of hands and is used for thousands of constructive purposes the bureau provides uncle sams ordy only method of discovering W what hat his people are doing and of uncovering the popular trends of the times more frequent nose counts have often been proposed f N 0 pa here is a gang puncher which records identical information on any given group of punch cards such as states cities kinds of businesses etc later cards are run through an electrical tabulator which adds figures for final publication below uncle sam stores census records with microfilms micro films each page of the report is photographed in miniature and filed later blown up again sasso I 1 ilk 4 af oz |