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Show Center of Population I Has Moved Eastward WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The decennial decen-nial census, now being tnken, will re- I veal that the center of population of ( the United Slates has moved eastward ' and not toward the west or nouth as 1 commonly predicted, J. A. Kill, stalls-1 I ticion of the census bureau, predicted) In an address at tho National Press club. The 1D10 census showed tho center of population to be in Bloomlngton, Indiana, and in 1900 the center was some fifty miles eastward or near Columbus, Col-umbus, of the same state. Preliminary Prelimin-ary reports thus far received, said Mr. Hill, while revealing tho eastward movement, do not contain sufficient figures to make any estimate of the extent of the eastward movement, After-the-war movement to the eastern east-ern cities together with the wartime growth of tho eastern industrial centers, cen-ters, tho census statistician said, have more than counteracted the normal westward movement of population. |