Show A CENSUS BUREAU if a permanent census office Is to bo be established at all tho the initiative legislation looking to lo that result should bo be taken without del delay a y for under rider u such legislation v hoover whoever might be placed at the head of such an office would have amplo opportunity to study baudy the whole question and to report to congress full and comprehensive plans for or future census work there are these three leamons lea iea sons then for prompt 1 legislation tho the action tion looking to the unification of certain inquiries in the vailous censuses of the world for 10 the nece necessity si of prepa preparation raLlon for the twelfth census I 1 the desire to establish a permanent nent census office in considering these three reasons there Is no necessity of I 1 it in any criticisms for all criticism must anut come back to the fact that there lias has been no one whose particular duty it was to see sec to it that proper preparations were made riot noi only for legislation but for the real work of the census col carroll D wright in the january forum |