The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-29
PLANNING CENSUS. or 1910
Work Will Require Services Of 10000 Clerks and Will
Cost About Sl400000O

WASHINGTON, June est will re-
qulre an army of 10000 people to take
the thirteenth census in 1910. The
task Of making the enumeration of the
90,O00,000 people In the United States,
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico and in
Guam Samoa and the Panama Canal
Zone viii be one of enormous propof-
tions. 1t will be the most gigantic
work Of enumeration that has ever
been attempted IN this or any other
country, and 1t is intended to reach the
acme of correctness and thoroughness.
Not merely a count and compilation
concerning the population alone, it will
include a census of agriculture, manu-
features, mines and quarries.
Director, s. N. D. North, Of the Census
Bureau, is already getting ready for
the thirteenth census. He has been
planning on it for a year or more. It
was hoped by Mr.. North that the Crum-
packer bill to provide for the thir-
teenth and subsequent decennial CEN
suses would be passed the last session
OF Congress. But it failed Of enact
ment along with numerous other
measures OF Importance by reason OF
the rush at the close of the session and
the anxiety of the Congress leaders to
hurry the session to an end.
The Crumpacker bill, however, will
doubtless be passed early the next ses-
sion. 1t is the first bill OF high priv
ilege on the House calendar. and 1t is
expected It will be taken up the first
or second day Of the session and dis
posed Of by the House. 1t has not yet
been acted on by the Senate Commit
tee on Census. that committee having
held back until the House had oppor-
tunity to pass tho measure No delay
in the Senate, either In committee or
on the floor. Is anticipated.
twill cost about sl4.o0o.000 to take
the thirteenth census. but this is not
carried In the Crunlpacker bill, as it
is on the House calendar. 1t Was In
the bill at first, but the Speaker and
Chairman Tawney, Of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations. thought 1t
2unwise to make so large an Sappropria-'
ton a year before 1t would be used,
and there was also a feeling that the
appropriation should be put In one OF
the regular appropriation bills, as the
Legislative, executive and judicial bill.
The coming session Of Congress will
no doubt appropriate literally for CEN
sus purposes.
a census OF the Philippines Will not
be included In the coming decennial
census for the reason that one was
taken in 1903, and 1t is doubtful whe-
Their the Philippine government Would
care to bear the cost Of another emu
1meratton so soon.
Important changes In the taking and
compilation OF the census and in the
method Of publication of tho returns
will be made. For one thing, the re-
turns will be greatly condensed. The
twelfth census required ten volumes.
II the q az a iracf or North
that the thlrteenh census will be pub
lished in six volumes or seven at the
outside. The mortality statistics Of the
last census will be dropped. They were
found Unsatisfactory as collected at tho
last decennial census. The reduced
number OF volumes will considerably
lower the cost OF the thirteenth census,
A change that Is believed to be In
the interest OF accuracy and colnplete-
ness will require the enumerat lon OF
population to be made as OF April 18th
instead OF June lst, as has been the
case here to fore. The reason for this
is interesting, I 5
The population OF the United States
is exhibiting more and more, q tens
dency to go to the seashore and the
mountains and the lakes to avoid the
hot weather. and 1t Is going much
earlier than formerly, The result Is
that enumerators who are set to work
June lst are certain to find many
houses deserted and their occupants
gone away for the summer. 1t M Is
thought April lat will be a much more
satisfactory date for this reaso u. AT
that time of year, \ he exodus B TO the
les orts wi IA npttbe begun. # # sssss
Provision NJ n Ne mad for al . dts,