Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-11-07
Plans for a Permanent Bureau
in Washington.
resident Roosevelt Said to Favor
Improved Methods.
ready Time 10 leslsiase Tor the Census o.
1910.

= 70 visitors rs faNUrahte 10 III"
} and for very good reasons.
" manufacturing industry has
ornate periods OF activity and
$: vet when the markets are
,cked no wise economist would
of stopping the machinery. diS-
,tipr and storing il, razing me
IL. and dispensing the whole
Of operatives. On the contrary
customary to lay of the super
hands by degrees. reduce the o.
zee, contract the quarters actual
Use 50 as to diminish the cost OF
heating. and lighting. but TO
small group 1T work. using up
is and ends of raw material on
leaning and repairing the ma
:, and holding everything III
90 SO that no time shall be lost
he day comes for setting all the
in motion again. Meanwhiie.
.e,,an who is worth His salary
n profiting by his experiences III
! busy season TO study out i'm
ents which will enable him to
better results with less cxpen-
,f energy and money.
,nsus Office is really nothing but
, statistics factory. 1t turns out
~ an adapted application OF the
Used TO turn out calicoes. shoes.
netting. Although there hav2
auctions in its force CT clerks
rr functio1arieS. il still retains
an three thousand employees.
compensation costs The govern
1St and IEorr 4 day. In view
lly and was,ctul legislation .or
nG the bureau. it may b. said
been conducted as economically
bic. and the p~oGrc,t is fair
Il the schedules of population
iculturn, which require tho
labor. will be completed by
Of next July. which will b"
rec and u0c-hal: years earlier
any previous census. To
mo idea Of what this work
it may be Motel ihat
90 persons are employed
two branches mentioned
rcc-fourths Of tho total r"ire.
n the great saving Of effort
1bou. By the I1"!l"rith ttbulat-
m. the task is enormous: Isl
arc in constant operation
1.0o0. 900 carGs having TO l." run
chem. aud SON" Of these S.N-
s. 50 that CSC. 900. oc0 strokes %
are required. These figures
10 convey som" ida of tho
Il Of . manufacturing enter
:ch Congress fauci, : il can cali
& almost In Il night. Til"
would b" much more Strikin.
:" TO go back and cite The fig
say. July, 1900. when the army
ry"es, AT hcaGpuart"rS ana in
was at its greatest numerical
1t mus l." r"mcmbcrcl also
census az 1901 was r"strictcd
0rc to very few topics. but
gross may at any tho" see fl.
k TO tho scheme os 1880. V hich
about everything on thu sur
lc earth AMI u good deal above
" 4.
"A OF a permanent census +
Gen. Francis a. Walker. w"lI
III" eighties, advocated some
the snmc nature Nh,n h"
that the bureau Of .abor sta
permanent branch OF Tho d.
J. of the interior. should l.,
With tn" task of collecting The
1890, inSt"nd of having a SIP
rcau organized for Il t"npor-
ice. as Lad been the custom
ANY years. Carroll y. Wight,
or published in 1871. dcplorcd
'orIrv M tar" Of thu census ser
The worst feature oc The eyg-
,obert i. Porter. who took the
census. expressed the SAM
he result Of Lis "Xpcrieuc". ami
n bill locking 10 Tie organjza-
the twelfth census b.fura thu
! mad more than fairly got uE-
Y. CoDmiSSio0"r Wright op-
NY legislation going into detail
rdicap to tn" Office who should
tally charged with tie taking
next census: b" thought Il ,,rr-
to provide simply an organic
stratirc law. leaving tic director
y 1t out on tho most nearly
nc plan pra .ticabl". He insicte.l
ie director ought TO hav. At least
years IN Which to prepare for
census. and to that end wro," a
alcn was Introduced in both
OF Congress N January. ,Se,.
bills. varying in detail! from his
looking moro Or less directly
IS a permanent census bureau
ltroduCcd and considered in com
ana n" permanent feature was
Dlect Of som" Discussion in oDon
IN Congress. b3t was finally
side rather than delay further
'lSiation absolutely necessary 70
lzc III" twelfth or current con.
1rSuioG It's r'c!i-cS.ahlis,,cd hab-
putting everything off until thc
io',ieh'' Congress did not cpa.t
oNi3i"hS Of This census into law
o''' 'a'IHg til" new director 4
-" months Instead OF soycral
N which I" work ont his m.,bodc
i!ect his official ard clerical STAN
''ne' di " ajk"r once said. thee
. ways of oconomizinS-,o spend
'o'ieE' or t" get more ror ,rn,t
~, ';!'u' in 81 scientific under
me- the gathering Of statistics
ohiF roSsiblc value of tb..
:. consists in its promp,ness fall
ino accuracy. it is plain tn,k
III! ana frugality are not inter
oI Qualities. It is -oncrajl,-
W 'ha the Sovcrnrlcpi wo,,,1
more money in ma;n.r;ri -
ne't bureau for the c.ns,,s+,ha.