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Show Noses Now Being Counted The great once in ten year job of taking the census of the Uni-3 Uni-3 -d States has been under way for some days. Many people feel that Uncle Sam Is going a Jeetle mite too far this year on some of the questions he 13 asking. However, what he says has to go in this land of laws. If people don't like the way their Uucle Sammy acts, they can put some new guardians over him whose methods they will like better. A census once In ten years is a good deal like the anual checkup check-up which you should have from your doctor. Yoh need to see the medical man aboht once a year to see whether heart, ulngs, rirculation, etc, are behaving properly. pro-perly. The people who neglect that precaution have often found themselves suddenly up against some surprising and depressing informaton. They have avoided that eritidal situation by learning learn-ing the unfortunate truth at an earlier date. So the census each 1en years shows where our strong and weak points lie as a nation. If some state has been losing in population and industry and wealth, we-alth, the census briugs i(j out. That state or the national government gov-ernment Can taVft What olana ' are necessar y to stop these losses. Many of the women folks dislike dis-like to tell their ages, they need not worry on that. The neighbors may be curious to know how old they are, but no one isgo-ing isgo-ing to go rummaging among tie men millions of census returns to find out that fact. It fakes persistant work for the census takers to complete their job Anyone whoever can- vassed on a community drive can see how many times It will be necessary to go to some houses hou-ses before people can be found at home. The census men and women will have to ring some doorbells many tymes. The people peo-ple should be courteous to them, and make their job as easy as possible. The sunspots seem to be making ma-king considerable trouble. If they lisappear as qhicnly as the ten ind five and one spots In onr pnr-les, pnr-les, this trouble won't last long. |