Show ym k 41 W C I 1 5 1 1 lei k P z 4 0 0 nf 0 4 IF Z A N W 0 0 K A P 0 i ci gr by ELMO SCOTT WATSON drawing by ray waiters walters the next few weeks an army of men and women will be visiting overy every homo home in tile the united states and milling asking v a series of 0 questions which every over one of 0 us must art an ewer or have answered tor for us those questions aro are the he follo following wInt name ionio lind and address sex ses aldr or race age single married wil owed pr divorced t relationship to head of 0 family horns owned or ren rented toti f free ree or mortgaged literacy place pinco or of birth pud and that of pa parents bonts citizenship ability to speak whether employed find and trado trade or OP profession whether otteran of any american war but lest you hould feel that tho the ag asking king of these la Is n me medalla idle some interference Inter forence lit in your private nf af fairs nars let it ho be stated nt at once that tile tho roan man or woman who calls nt at your lionie home and as asks you these questions ques tlona la 14 a census enumerator in the huge task of 0 taking the ipuh decennial cen sue aua 0 of f population in the united states in accordance accor danee e with article I 1 of the constitution of the united states that you are required by law to give truo tillo answers to tile the questions still and that there is no reat real reason whatsoever why you should not answer them for you have this assurance from tr dr william liam bf steuart chief of 0 the bureau of tile the census lit in regard to it no citizen cit lyen peed need basl hesitate tate to answer the i questions asked by the en enumerators the afie filets facts so for far as tile bindl vidual Is in concerned hilll be ba soft in the hands ot of the govern government luent and will never r bo be disclosed NO one need have tile tho slightest four foar that his personal or business secrets will ever bo disclosed or too the anth of oe the enumerator requires that lie he shall deeo secret the answers to queries if he does not lie he la Is guilty of a crimp and it detected there ther la is not tile the douht doubt ns as to what will bill happen the law will he be invoked and enforced to the limit the 1030 census will bs be ill tle greatest Brea test counting of notes noses in the history of the world when it Is completed uncle baia will know lust just how bow many mat ly more children lie he has than he had find in 1020 As to what tho the population of the ane united states will all be doctor steuart says ays it will be more than 1 addless and less than 12 amro certain as to this because we know that ohp ahe population ot of tile the continental united states Is now increasing at the tha rate of about persons ench each year or to put it another way at tile the approximate rate of one person every twenty second st these totals are made tip of the annual excess of over deaths which amounts to jabout about 1350 3 OW and the excess of 1111 tion over emigration which jives gives us n an u additional each caeli year yean T ane 1030 census will show that our people are thirty times as many as an were in the country in 1700 1790 and near sly ily twice as many as in 1810 or only lorty years ago history story record recarda no instance in which population tins has so rapidly increased 1 er aa has been the caso caas in n tile the united states Nel Vel therla theris it of record that the increase In creasa in population has anywhere else been accomplished by 4 y so great an improvement in the comfort acdwell and well being of the people generally in 1700 thero there were 40 45 persons for or anch square mile of 0 what was waa consil t then it n the united states the conaci IR I 1 believe ollove li will allow forty to I 1 nille ml orn nearly darly teis tea tones mor inore a titan than at tho the time of the fir first st con cen sud sua lit in 1700 there were six cities in ill thol the united states with more thun that then rt itri the cities were responsible fur for only 3 per cent of the population Amer america left tit in those days was truly in 1020 tile the cities will more titan than inhabitants numbered 04 and their population was 14 44 1 per r lent cent of tile the national total add to those these tile the towns and villages villager of 0 loss less than SW people and we wa find that in ill 1020 lo 10 0 O tile the urlin population was a lit tle more inozu thun limn half the total for the union in ill accomplishing tile the huge brisk which fitches uncle sams army of cen aus enumerators they will visit not only ft homes but also more dioro titan than almost plants und and in addition they wilt compile data concerning darins mines tin and quarries irrigation and ngo aige projects abo reason for this Is chilt the 1 kith decennial census be tint not only a count of population but also it comprehensive study of the commerce commercio com merco atud industry of the nation including for the birst tine a census of distribution in tho the lash laft it la Is hoped that there will be found nt at least some of the for tin nn loss of 10 in the process of placing commodities in tho hands of tile the alti ulti evns umer tho the 1030 census says saia doctor la Is guing to be we hope and belleve belles e the most nearly perfect tabu lallon of population business and etli ath er baste filets ever taken in history I 1 say any tills this with the fact ait in mind that dearly years have pas bcd fillice tile the first census was made when king david set out ty to number the people of isrnel israel and judith it took him nine neontha mantl is lind auld twenty days to do the jol job anil and among the things lie ho found out was that there wore were in israel anti in judah about 1300 OW gallant men that drew the swords sword the first census of the united states was taken ISO years ago the hie united statius was nas first among tile countries to make a regular periodical enumeration of its inhabitants a part of tho the fundamental law the american census taken in 1700 was very limited lit in scope und was as directed by the united states mars marshals haIg they were alloN allowed ved thirteen months on tho the job and whoa when tho totals were added up our population avas as about that census related solely to population the name of tile the head bend of tile the family was waa taken together with the number of persons in ench each family classified ng as free or slave tho the whites who were free were ire classified as free frea whites as male or female and the freo free whites males as over 01 er or under sixteen years of age that was about all there was to it the marshals who supervised the 1700 count numbered number pd only IT 17 the enumerators GW and you jou will ampro na 19 MK elate clate what the latter hatter figure brans when you ou are told that tho the enumerators who will toke take tho the 10 io census will ft 11 bo be an army of more titan than 1 I since face the 1700 census tho nations of the world have been gradually developing ve methods and machinery eliat speed up the counting ot of heads lind and the accumulation of a vast amount of data d ian regarding economic social educational aud and other conditions ilerd lit in the united states tile tho development has probably been more far rou clang than in any other country consequently the director of tile the census la is now by law required to enumerate in tile the space of one month more than anti and nt lit tile alio same time obtain very ery extensive In forma tion about farms mines irrigation anti and drainage proofs tile the filets facts of employment and unemployment affecting million of people and also the trade profession or particular kind of work done J y every person of working age in tile alie nation quite a job for four weeks ls la it not yet yei it can and will he com coin plated tn in the allotted thirty days dais with the exception ot of a dively tow few when the vast la Is con si dered the original records of every family enumerated in the 1700 and subsequent census are on oil file in the census bureau according to mr air art the missing records record have hae been lost or destroyed by accident ilow how tier tile on john jol n Il ancock ins has been preserved and his family faintly was reported us as being made up of two white males over OT sixteen years of nee age three white fel females lulles anti and seven other free persons not white it Is presumed tho the seven free persons listed as not white were negro servants er lints I 1 in the taking of the asco census each person was tor for the first time asked to give ghe the value ulue of hla his or her real and personal property tile records for illinois show that abdrab an Lincol ns faintly comprised mr lincoln lits his wife hla his three sons sona and a boy bo fourteen years eara old named phillp philip DIn dingell kell sir mr lincoln said he was worth of which was the value alaia of his rent real estate the remainder being personal in the same canoe census james nuch Duc hantin anun listed his household as consisting of himself his niece aless harriet let lane and eleven employees and servants sen ants all of tho the miter latter being ot of foreign birth the system of individual enumeration was adopted at the census ot of and at the same sama time a number ot of new nev classifications were added illiteracy school attendance occupation place of birth itco etc |