Show NEED OF PERMANENT P CENSUS BUREAU m HE NEW mW YORK WORLD is arguing with much reason in favor faTor of mak making I T I ing the census conus office a permanent bureau Many of the difficulties s tit titar are ar encountered encounter il in taking and tabulating the census and the errors that repeatedly occur are due in no small measure re to the that every e ten years the t 4 work of or organizing the bureau has to begin anew As the World points out atIt no 0 private business s could be successfully lly run on such a disorganized plan Statistics 8 compiled complIed from an accurate and thorough census are arc are invaluable But if IC the original I are ars inaccurate the statistics based basc on them are Of ft little worth In every branch of or labor experience is the best teacher and andIA IA to I 5 especially lly true tru tru of census taking Yet all aU tIlt the experience of former years has been practically lost loot by the practice of disorganizing and abollah I JHK K g the bureau aa u soon as its work on the census of one decade has been d In Consequence the next decade deoade finds the bureau no better pre prepared prepared prepared pared ty t hartlIe the work than it was before It Ii i L would be boo ry to employ a largo large force during the interval I between the compiling of or the figures of one census and the preparations for forMe I Ie Me e next But the bureau should be kept organized and its records cords r kept In hpe pe fl Mud Much valuable work could bo be turned nut out by the bureau in the mean meantime Urn time and it f Is to be hoped that congress will give this mattec matter the attention c it deserves dserve at the next session |