Show Of ar torie M Mines ineS UNCLE SAMS S THIRTEENTH CENSUS s r n 4 r s 1 d y i r 11 I p i f sS y I yi C t A i 4 r a 9 s a p 2 s Yn t e r x t e M D f t Yf vii C pt t tt o iW rR v w hs J ti F a r f V J f dv N e fr tx y N 6 t y ti a a v m a p 1 1 VY VYt h r rr t i y i I I J f I 1 Z i iJ J r r rr r I t t rJ P fA J 7 r II A t t b t j CHIEF STATISTICIAN i i FOR AGRICULTURE C b t n y v i R j iI y t SEMIAUTOMATIC SEM hl lEC 1 x t sCH tl r Of t CA I ATTACHMENT ATT AND SlAM N n OtC G ate TAE p F y A OPO OP OF C COLD LD Dr U S Census will begin be begin gin eln making his thirteenth OLD O diagnosis of or tho the condition of ot Undo Sam and his family April 15 next He made mado tho first In 1790 and has been repeating It ever every ten years since Uncle Sam has footed the tho bills to date amounting to about Our venerable pad dad has hns calculated that tho thirteenth investigation investigation gation gatlon will cost about so that when old Dr U S Census finishes his hs current work there thero will havo have been spent about for this purpose since 1790 The twelfth census cost about 13 and as Undo Sams landed possessions havo have increased since then and his family gained about moro more members than b longed to it in 1900 It would be considered no more than fair Calr if Ir the tIle present diagnosis were to call for the tho spending of ot about 19 which would be tho the sum If ir the thera thera ra o of or Increase of or expense at nt each cach census up to tho the twelfth were to be maintained for the thirteenth A census expert has estimated that of ot the the headquarters of or office orfice fice fico force Corce will earn carn the enu eau enumerators enumerators tho the supervisors and the special agents The administrative cost will bo be the stationery rent tabulating machines cards for tabulation processes printing Alaska Porto Rico Total If tr that Is all the thc expense It Is cheap The late General Francis A Walker who was a census authority auth greater than any an 10 other living or dead once wrote that the people of ot the United i t States can well afford to pay for the tho very best census they can get He penned this In connection with a frank confession of his own shortsightedness in underestimating the cost of tho the tenth census Its the tho old story stor When you are Ill get the best doctor you ou tn n afford The Tho comparative cheapness with which the thirteenth census will betaken be betaken betaken taken will bo be largely larely due to Director E EDana EDana EDana Dana Durands economical methods to the introduction of semiautomatic elec electrical electrical card punching tabulating and sorting machines and to the inheritance inherit inheritance Inheritance ance of or wisdom from he ho experience gained by tho the permanent census bu ty y s y ir Wy tt is y I 1 Y HARRIS G IT RT EbANA DIRECTOR FOR OJ OF THE U U OF THE CENSUS reau During tho the term of ot the latter which now Is In a sort of state of suspended sus suspended suspended animation pending the taking of or the tho decennial census tho the methods of or Inquiry tabulation and compilation have havo been greatly Improved both loth In Inaccuracy accuracy and In economy Millions will be saved Modern Methods For Accuracy Mr Durand is responsible for many man manot of ot the new methods to Increase statistical statis statistical statistical accuracy at every step of tho the census taking and to decrease the per capita cost of ot the enumeration Tho The card punching tabulating and sorting machinery Is tho ilea Invention of or a census mechanical expert and the patent rights belong to Uncle Undo Sam gam The ma machines chines aro are novel in plan and design are aro of greater speed and than those they superseded and can be bo built and operated at a large laree saving of ot money as compared with previous expenditures for this purpose Other money saving features aro are the tho elimination of tho the vital statistics in inquiry Inquiry from rom tho work of or the decennial census as It belongs to the permanent branch of oC tho the Unites States census n us the reduction in the number of or sched schedules ules ides the piece price method of or paying for or machine work tho the omission of or the hand household and neighborhood In Industries Industries Industries from rom the manufactures branch of or tho the census and the tho reduction of or the size sizo and number of ot copies of the tho final I reports Tho The larger part of ot tho the will bo be expended In n tho the fiscal year which began July Jul 1 last and ends Juno 30 1910 tho the first of or tho the three years ears within which time th thirteenth cen census census sus BUS must bo be over the tho temporary clerks and special agents discharged and the permanent census bureau with Its office force of clerks again per performing performing performing forming Its annual functions functIons functions Fully Full half of or the tho total to bo be ex cx will bo be share and tho the remainder will be distributed all over tho the country Washington lashington needs the tho money and Is preparing to absorb tho the millions Into its Us circulatory system SY Congress ess has limited limited tho the thirteenth census to four general Jeneral subjects population lation agriculture agriculture manufactures and mines and quarries The director is authorized to determine tho the form and subdivision of or inquiries Tho The Inquiry as to population relates to April 15 I 1910 that as to agriculture concerns tho the farm operations during 1909 and calls for tor an Inventory of or farm arm equip equipment equipment ment April 15 1910 that relative to manufactures and mines and quarries is for 1909 An Army to Get the Facts F I Tho The enumerators will carry carr only the tho population and agriculture schedules April 16 15 1910 Special agents will besent be bo besent sent out with tho the schedules for the tho manufactures mines and quarries data There will bo be fully enumerators of or whom about will carry both the tho population and agriculture sched schedules schedules schedules ules as It Is estimated that thero there arenow are arenow arenow now fully separate farms arms In America with farmers numbering well up Into a score of or millions In 1900 there were mary marry more moro billions of dol dollars dollars dollars lars of or fixed capital Invested In agri agriculture agriculture culture than there were in manufactures manufactures manufactures tures strange as It may seem And tho the farmer Carmer Is getting better off all the time his mortgage Indebtedness Is do de decreasing I creasing fast his taxation Is small as compared with tho the urbanites burden and ho lie lids taken to riding on a large scale This is tho the heyday of or the tho farmer and old Dr U S Census Is going to dlag diagnose diagnose nose noso him pretty carefully for or fear a that with case comes evil that Is the neg neglect neglect neglect lect of ot those essentials which have I made his prosperity possible Census taking every ten years ears Is a tremendous task It Is tho the greatest I I single operation undertaken by Uncle Undo Sam with tho the exception of the Pana Panama Panama Panama ma canal work and tho the assembling of or oran an army In time of or war The American census Is the largest costliest and most accurate of ot any taken by tho the civilized nations Its methods are aro tho the must mot modern and Its Us equipment tho the most complete The census bureau force Corce comprises first Director E Dana Du Durand Durand Durand rand of ot Michigan who although only years ears old Is older than most of or the tho generals commanding tho the forces In tho the civil war and who is too toon a n statistically scarred hero a veteran in government service and likely to prove provo tho the most practical and efficient director connected with any my of or the past censuses Then there thero Is tho the assistant director William F Willoughby of ot Washington former secretary of or state of ot Porto forto orto Rico Next In rank aro are the five fhe chief statisticians William C Hunt In charge of or the Clue population di dl division division vision Lo Le Grand Powers heading the agricultural division William M lot Steuart Steu Steuart art overseeing the manufactures di dl division division vision Dr Cressy L Wilbur the tho vital statistics work and Dr Joseph Adna Hill Hili the tho division of or revision and re results results suits Charles S Sloane Is tho the geographer geographer pher Alburtus II H Baldwin is tho chief clerk cleric Voler V is chief o 0 tho the publication Hugh M Iii Brown Is private secretary to the tho director Rob Robert Robert Robert ert M Pindell P ndell Jr Is tha th appointment clerk Georgo George Johannes Is the tho disbursing dIsbursing Ing officer and C W V Spicer Is the me mechanical mechanIcal mechanical expert In addition to thes aro are tho the chiefs of or the tho divisions under tho the chief statisticians statistician Thero are about perm permanent clerks and there will be tempo temporary temporary temporary clerks etc The supervisors supervisor will number and they will employ and direct the enumerators Twenty expert special agents agent will an I advisory function There will bo be bout 1600 chief special agents and assistant special agents The Tho supervisors supervIsor will also probably proba ly employ 1000 clerks OO special agents and Interpreter to assist them in tho the election of ot the enumerators The enumeration must be finished within two weeks In tho the cities of population or over at the last census and within thirty days das in all other areas Tabulating the Returns Tho The preparation of ot the thc schedules for tor forthe forthe the tabulating process will begin as soon as they aro are d by b tho su supervisors supervisors supervisors Tho data on them relating to population will bo be transferred to manila cards by the punching of ot holes In them to i the differ lITer different different ent Items In tho the schedules An elec clec electrical machine controlled by a cleric clerk can punch holes In cards a J day There will be of or these and card hae ha e been ordered After tho the punching tho the cards are aro hand fc rc Into an electric machine with i a 1 pin box attachment I which permits the tho required pins to pass through tho the variously placed I holes in the cards In this way tb lishing an electric circuit resulting inthe In Inthe the tho tabulation of o tho the Items on counters which register their results in printing on spooled paper like a astock astock astock stock ticker There will be a hundred of or hese machines After certain comparisons com comparisons compari pari sons to prove accuracy y tho the schedules sched schedules schedules ules are permanently preserved In a great Iron safe In the census t bureau bure u As the card docs does not tho tIo name of ot tho the person for whom It stands all nIl Identity IE is I eliminated from t tf cards All danger of misuse of ot such Information disc Severe Secre enal ties aro arc provided In casa caso any employee employed discloses census Information lon to out outsiders outsiders outsiders siders Tho next stop step Is the making malting I of or tile tie maps and tables to accompany tho the analyses and then finally tho the issue Is Issue sue Nue of ot the printed bulletins and re reports reports reports ports Before July 1 I 1912 tho the work must be bo over ov jr and thi th thirteenth census gone cone to Jon john its scientific ancestors PHILIP PHILP DARWIN |