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Show PREPARE MEASURE FOR 1920 CENSUS Oiganisation for Collection of Statistics Will Be Larger Than Ever Befors. m i WASHINGTON, Feb, A bill providing pro-viding for the iy;t census will be reported re-ported in a few days by the house census committee. It became known today that the org-ani:ation for the collectlfn of the statistics will be larger than ever. Su-pe"vioi Su-pe"vioi s and enu mem tors of population ami asncu'ture prob.ibly will number be-j teen 5.0c. and 90,000 and for manu- ; ia-tures. mines and ouarries. under sep- arate supervjs:on. there -will be 1500 em-p.oyees em-p.oyees in the field, with from UH0 to cOOO clerks and other employees in the census office. The bill is expected to follow recommend recom-mend it ions of a special committee ap -pointed bv the director of the census, which sneesred that the Philippines, not included m the thirteenth census, should not be included in the fourteenth, and that a census of the Virgin islands is now in progress and another one is unnecessary unnec-essary t :i 1 ? - 0 . O ilh :n . Samoa and the Panama cami! zone special censuses can read 11 v be taken at small cost if congress con-gress orders it. the committee reported. The committee also recommended that the census extend to show the nationality or mother tongue of all persons in this countrv born in foreign countries and na-tionahtv na-tionahtv or foreh-m tongue of foreign-born parents. It suggested that the population enumeration be based on January 1. 19 JO. instead of April 1?. as in the past; that there be a biennial census of the products prod-ucts of manufactures, industries and that the" census of anjmals slaughtered be dispensed dis-pensed nul; as approximately accurate conclusions regarding meat and hide production pro-duction can be iT.-ched ' from other sources |