Show A CENSUS SENSATION the decennial tank task of numbering uncle sams children ia is one that is always preceded by more or leas less excitement cit ement on the part of the family referred to attended by results of a more or lees less sensational nature and followed by disappointments dig appointments and sur prisca from which the country hardly revives before the v bole whole business comes n again the eleventh census the one now being taken at one time promised to be ushered in wit with h a few million law suits suite owing to 4 the indignation of many people at and their pro pre announced refusal to reply to certain questions relating to constitutional disease and financial moun driess but that fear blew over when the superintendent instructed his hl assistants assi and his subordinates that they should merely report not take legal action in cases of such refusal really sensational however ie Is the i report which has bits boon bent sent up from one 0 of the pennsylvania districts the supervisor states that bis his enumerators mera mer tors advice him that hungarians Hung arians and polee poles and many italians in lackawanna luzerne anil and carbon counties have refused to give any census information even to interpreters interpret era many of these men he says are designated firna ted by their employers by here each man wearing hia his number on ilia his person and ans answering to it tho the supervisor says gays that if BO so instructed ted be he will direct bia big enumerators to take account of such employees by dy numbers in this way securing nativity age and occupation which in bis his opinion would be better than no information at all of course there was bot but one reply that the ell superintendent rould could give that is that it is impossible thattie that the census office should help to perpetuate each such a state tate of affairs as reported when large num beris of laborers are treated more like beasts of burden than men and know known n only by numbers the incident reveals ft a state of things which would hardly be believed coming from a lesa lem au authoritative source and ita its publicity whether tor for the purpose of political capital or as an invitation to philanthropic t b ropic correction cannot fail to have a profound effect in the country at large |