Deseret Evening News | 1908-01-13 | Page 4 | Cost of the Census

COST OF THE CENSUS New Nt W York ork Evening Post statistics lIes ll exist largely to 10 glorify our material progress them thom themselves thoms selves s ives u e with amazing rapidity The rho census of 1790 1100 cult coit co t J 12 cents per capita The TI census ot of 19 cost 1560 O cents per capita and the thirteenth Genetic census dd d the UIO economics of ot a permanent 1 e which manufactures its own Is ox O peeled to 10 cost about the I same Wo Wa 0 ought to reach in course of 01 it time timet t equilibrium The Ideal is in that knowing ju JUst t what facts figures wo want wo we should collect them at regular Intervals intervale l without changing the scheme schema every ten years Tho TIte tendency toward extending tho the of ot the th census must bo ho strong even apart ap from the tho universal desire of public to enlarge their tune functions U IlS The of ot volumes trout from tr m the last enumeration contains almost an Infinitude of Items unknown to 10 the tha twenties and thirties Yet lot let the tIle In Investigator Investigator Investigator go g outside of the UIO main ten tra traveled el d Egotistical roads and he be will discover r many marty things Av hl h the census does doi not hot touch t ch The man wile wlm attempts to find the crop w eny f of asparagus given by b minor civil divisions is doomed to disappointment There are ninny many and fascinating details d taUs which could cobb be he Included if Congress would be ho as an liberal to tho the census as ItIs It ItIs Is Ia to the army um and navy The stat sal statistician statistician however Is already a tL pam pain pampered pored personage and anti we wo should dislike e eto to see seo him spoiled entirely by b excess of dt Intellectual lollipops lollipop