Show U S population grows rapidly census head expects it to reach next year washington the population of the states Is now increasing at the rate of about 1 persona a year or about one person every 23 seconds according to william M steuart director of the census bu reau of the department of commerce who recently outlined the scope of the work to be done in taking the 1030 census the total increase said mr steu Is made up of the annual excess of births over deaths which amounts to an additional per year by 1930 the population will be more than thirty times as great as it was in 1790 and nearly twice what it was in 1890 or only 40 years ago the census figure for 1790 was and for 1890 the total was ga the census taken in 1920 showed a population of the census bureau has made an estimate of population on july 1 1927 as ceifus knowledge an asset history records no other instance in velch the population has increased BO eald mr steuart forth er there has been no other nation n which the increase in population has been accompanied by such improvement in the comfort and well being of the people As a statistician I 1 be eteve this advancement his been due in no small degree to the definite knowledge we have of our production our n sources our facilities for transportation por tation and our population as ex pressed in current statistics it required 13 months to cake the first united states census in 1790 in taking the 1930 census the director will be required in one month to enumerate more than people alie people who ived in the states in 1790 said mr steuart occupied a territory of square miles there being 45 per sons for eich square mile of herrl tory the present area of continental united states Is 2 square miles and the average population per square mile n will be more than forty or nearly ten times the earlier age in 1790 there in the united states only six titles having as many as inhabitants the population of these cities formed a little more than 3 per cent of alie total aton of the country in 1920 there such cities and their aas nearly 44 per cent of the total including the population of small er cities down to those with 2500 in the urban the united states in 1920 formed a little more than half of the total and the rural a little less than half while the farm population taken alone formed less than 80 per cent it appears therefore that we are becoming more and more a nation of cities but there are strong factors operating against this tendency one of the most potent of these Is the automobile you may be obliged to work in a city but if you own a car you can readily live out in the more spacious regions of hollyhocks roses and vegetable gardens chere are some who prophecy that by reason of this growth of suburban residential areas the 1030 census will not show the usual in crease in the proportion of urban population the first census recorded only the name of the head of the family and the number of persona in the family distributed into four or me groups or classes the family of john ann cock for example was reported as comprising two white males oer six teen years of age three white females and seven other free persons not white who were presumably negro servants there are about counties 17 cities boroughs and in alze all the way from the little of N it ahe st census could hot of n ti tal of ahree in to the gret of ew york chicago and i blandel ehla |