Show Young Citizens Citizen Ad Ad Tim Till cc sus ICU T nv nY it It s. s nl n Here bo boy what's whal's your our name namer Hunting Eye do tie live Where you OU In tho the North Woods Well youre you're sort of oC out of my ter ter- ter r- r If you OU want to get in on this census you'll have o to get back up there Tho curlo curiosity It- It ItoC of oC the Indian bo boy was now aroused This man had started to question him while lie he was peacefully peacefully peace peace- fully standing in front of or tho the house of oC his friend tho the mayor and he wanted to know the reason What hat Is la the census ho asked It is tho the counting of ot the tho people Oh that ought to be bo easy Well it It is a big Job The Tho government has many thousands of oC men and women omen working on it You Tou I i t tsee see the United States government must know from time to time how many people there Ire are in the country So every cro ten years a count is taken of ot them nut But the tho government gO needs to know man many things besides tho the mere number of oC people So instead of oC merely countIng countIng count- count Ing noses the census takers find out outa a lot of or other information about each I person You can see from rom looking at this form Corm For Instance we find out whether tho the person has any property his age abc color whether he ho is married 1 if ho he wa was born here If IC he can read road and write rite his native language his occupation occupation pation patton whether ho he works for himself or r for tor someone else All of oC these things It Is Important for tor the tho government bo to know What is done dono with Ith this Tho census is taken ken under the di direction direction direction di- di of or the tho census eau bureau at atash Wash ash ington After we get gt through filling in on these forms the thc information for tor all the tho people the material Is sent to the tho census bureau This bureau puts together the thc Information from all over o the tho countr country Then it puts all this Into a report which it publishes This re report report re- re port is js usually made up of ot from ten to fifteen or more books each eh one ono of or I them as thick through as your our head bead It is js distributed to people through the the country at al a certain price so KO that not noton on only the government but everybody can an use the figures ures that It contains I Next week The Dig Big University Co Copyright 1920 b by J J. J H. H Millar |