Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-27 | Page 13 | Roosevelt's Census Proclamation in 23 Tongues Appear in S. L.

Roosevelt's Census Proclamation In 23 Tongues Appear in S. L Appeal of President Asks Cooperation Of All U. S. Residents The proclamation of President Roosevelt calling all American citizen citi-zen to cooperation with th sixteenth six-teenth decennial census was posted Wednesday in Salt Lake City, so that ail persons though they read only foreign language will be aware of the nation's largest Information In-formation quiz. The proclamation posters are written in 23 languages, including English, and point out that the "sole purpose of 'the census is to secure general statistical information informa-tion regarding the population, business busi-ness activities and resource of the country, and replies are required re-quired from Individuals only to enable en-able the compilation of such general gen-eral statistic. No person can be harmed in any way by furnishing the Information required." The president's proclamation is printed In the following languages, besides English : German, Spanish, French, Russian, Slovak, Greek, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croation, Julian, Jul-ian, Dutch, Slovene, Jewish, Finnish, Fin-nish, Ukrainian, Polish, Swedish. Norwegian, Hungarian, Czech, Danish, Portuguese and Arabic. Tit is the duty of every person -AVer 18 years of age to answer all questions on I ha census schedules applying to him and th family to which he belongs and to th farm or home occupied by him or his family, and all other census schedules sched-ules as required by law," th proclamation proc-lamation states. V : - ; ' 1 " -V -: I A - z: fx J ea SSV''S""'. I vV ; V - CENSUS PROCLAMATION STUDIED BY FAIR READER Mrs. Betty A. Fike finds strange words on poster