Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-14 | Page 3 | Urged to Assist Decennial Census

URGED TO ASSIST DECENNIAL CENSUS WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. A proclamation proclama-tion by President Wilson, calling on all the people of the country to give aid to the taking of the fourteenth decennial census, which ia to begin January 2, was made public today by the census bureau. The proclamation states that the main purpose of the census is to obtain accurate ac-curate statistics on which to base the representation in congress. It calN al -tentlon to the fact that all persons are required to give fu;i information appivinj to hlmse.f and the family to which be' belongs. be-longs. "No person can be harmed in any wav by furnishing the Information required' it adds. "Census has nothing to do with taxation, iith military or jury service with the compulsion of school attendance, attend-ance, with tho regulation of immigration or with tho enforcement of any national, state or local law or ordinance."