| Show ciby GROWTH ty S TIMES TILE THE AI cities are increasing in tion seven arid anil a halt times as rast fast na lie tile the I 1 biral districts I 1 the lie census disclosed tonight in a compilation pi lation of figures covering binately 85 tier per cent of the new cen aln stis the figures indicated that ill LO census would show shod the majority oi of the population to be oil alti dwellers in he last ten tell years rural growl as only one third as graat as in tilt bevious decade but tile the cities 1 al I most maintained their rat rate C 0 glowth getting ilvo nert isilta A alit tiam facin 1910 to 1320 1920 for six ado ad td in the preceding ten let years al A pupo lation cen lrea catu the ali u atiqi anal aT iii funty jut ity hamlets and towns town s showed d s greater proportionate increase thai the purely rural districts the great arc at I 1 est increases however were b ba cities of or more inhabitants while the bureau attempts no explanation of 0 the reasons for the in creasing migration to the cities each year in the last decade lil higher glier wages shorter working day and home conveniences attracted thi ill rural population especially durin during the war when wages in big aidus industrial fentres centres went up rapidly although showing a check in th ill rate rale of population growth tor for thi coi country as a whole the bureau figures indicated that the complex census would place the total numbe cumbe of inhabitants of the continent united states at approximated a grain of or 15 per cent cities will abdor virtually all ot of this increase it 1 bs ing estimated that soi would live lu fit towns of 2500 or mor inhabitants while won woul lie ie added to the farms and the smal ha hamlets inlets for the countryside itsel the increase would be approximately it a million and a quarter such a movement of 0 the peoli will place the urban population a ap approximately roxi matly and the ru lal ial population at L I 1 ilie ile rural population that of the cities by almost people there being in the country and 3 in ta th cities for several censuses said tl bureau announcement the countr has not been grow ing as rapidly a the city but the difference appear to be greater at this census than ever before the urban population the an no added increased per ier cent while the lie rate of the rura districts including the villages ano an towns under population w a 34 per cent for the strictly fari territory the rate was 32 per cent and that of the villages was 47 pc r cent among the urban centres bentres cen tres bitle exceeding increased at 26 i per cent those of to at per cent and those of 2501 to at per cent fret 1 I 0 00 O OO to 1910 the percentage rate ot of increases tor for these three clas cl assili sirl ot of cities were am respectively up to ten days ago the announce anent said the count of population estimated at so 85 per cent complete had reached Sl for purposes ot of comparison between city all and country the bureau reduced in ane e figure to by eliminating the population ot of the insular possessions and places in the united states for which comparison was deemed inadvisable because otnes boundaries of this total population that classified as urban was reported as 52 the cities over population n having itilia inhabitants lit those of 1500 to having the rural population was in the country districts and in village under 2500 in population 0 vote for amendment no 2 |
