The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-07-10
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CENSUS TAkER NORTH CAN'T
LOCATE THEN AL.
WOMEN IN MAJORITY
Recent Act q Congress Brings orlsf
70 Department Of csnsus-lntersst-
ing statictlcs Produced by Depart
mont q Agriculture Regarding
Cheese.

Cheese.
Washington, July Sin spite. Of the
fact that It will require the services
Of 10000 men and women to take the
next census Of the population and Re.
sources Of the country, Director OF the
Census North has already received
twice az many applications for work
on the force as there are positions. He
puts in nearly half Of his time now an
swering the applications for jobs that
are coming in from every state IN the
union.
"a force Of $500 extra clerks will
be employed in this city, and, in adj
dition to these, there will have to be
employed $4,000 enumerators in the
field. The remainder Of the 10000
is made up Of district supervisors and
other superintendent Of the work.
The food OF applications for posi-
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lions is largely accounted for by the
fact that, by the terms Of the act Of
congress passed in the las. session az
fecting the census, there Is no civil
service requirement for the work.
Members Of the house and senate put
this provision in under the idea that
1t would give them q chance to help
out their constituents BY giving them
work. It turned out to be q boomer.
ang. The members cannot find enough
places OF meet the demand, and Di-
rector North is tearing his hair In an
e%ndeavor to meet the demands OF the
congressman and the wishes Of the
public. @@i
~ Women Want Jobs.
A striking fact is that nearly Is 3
cent Of the applicants for work are
women, showing that the lure of the
government job is much stronger with
woman than with man. This is prob
ably true because the salaries paid
by the government to women are high
er than those paid to them by private
concerns. t"
In addition to trying to adjust the
demand for work to the supply, Mi.
North is mapping out q plan which,
he thinks. will result IN there being In
the next census no enumeration OF
dead persons and tombstones to- swell.
the percentage pay Of the enumerat-
ors. The census will be taken in 1910.
Many Kinds Of Cheese.
Here is gratifying news to the gour-
mand and the glutton. It comes from
the department OF Agriculture, that
branch OF the government which has
dug up more curious Information than
was aver known. The latest pro
nouncement is that there are 2425 kinds
of cheese manufactured in the world.
Two hundred and sforty-two varieties
of the succulent cheese! It passes
all comprehension, and 1t must make
the mouth Of the epicurean smack
with anticipatorv pleasure. 1t would
take nearly q year to sample It ali,
eating q different brand every day.
The government is interested in 1t,
however, because the consumption Of
cheese has advanced so prodigiously
In this country. This is explained by
the fact that cheese is not q fayorite
dish with the average American, but is
the pet food Of many classes of the i'm.
migrants who have been pouring into
the United States in the last Ave
years. ss
The department Of agriculture says
that nearly all OF the 242 varieties are
imported into this country and that
the bulk Of the article goes to foreign
born people.
Test Remarkable invention.
Just outside Of Washington, there Is
now being tested every day a remark
able invention which, it is claimed,
will prevent the possibility of railroad
wrecks and the head-on collisions If
the railroads Of the country will adopt
1t. Congress will be asked by its pro-
motors to indorse it in the next SEES
sion.
The test is being made on a local
railroad. It Is done by means OF a
third rail carrying enough electricity
allow engineers, going at full speed,
to communicate with each other by
telephone or telegraph. The contact
and communication is kept up by
means of q sliding shoe,'' which is
in contact with the third rail.
There is also an apparatus which
operates 80 that, II two engines are
each other on the. same
track, the air brakes will be applied
automatically and the train will stop. !
In the cab OF each locomotive there is /
series OF vari-colored electric bulbs
which become Illuminated, according
to q system OF signals, II there Is an