The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-15
10000 MEN AND WOMEN
WILL TAKE THE CENSUS OF THE
UNITED STATES IN 1910.
Director North Is Already Preparing
for Accurate Count of Everybody.
Will Cost $4,000 600.


WASHlNGTON-It will require an
army of 10000 persons to take the
thirteenth census in 1910. The task
of making the enumeration of the
10000, 600 people in the United
States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto
Rico and in Guam, Samoa and the
Panama Canal zone will be one of
enormous proportions. 1t will be
the most gigantic work of enumera-
ton that has ever been attempted in
this or any other country, and it is
intended to reach the acme of cor
rectness and thoroughness. Not
merely a count and compilation CON
corning the population alone, it will
include census of agriculture, man
ufactures, 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 year
or more. 1t was hoped by Mr.. North
that the Crumpacker bill to provide
for the thirteenth and subsequent
decennial censuses would be passed
by the last session of congress. But
it failed of enactment along with
numerous other measures of import
ance 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 session. 1t is the first bill of
nigh privilege on the house calen-
dar, and it is expected it will be
taken up the first or second day of
the session and disposed of by the
house. 1t has not yet been acted
on by the senate committee on CEN
sus, that committee having held
back until the house had opportunity
to pass the measure. No delay in
the senate either in committee or on
the floor is anticipated.
Cost Estimated $t4,OOO,OOO.
1t will cost about $14,OOO,00O to
take the thirteenth census, but this
is not carried in the Crumpacker
bill, as it is on the house calendar.
1t was in the bill at first, but the
Speaker and Chairman Tawney of
the house committee on appropria-
lions thought it unwise to make so
large an authorization a year before
lit would be used and there was also
IA feeling that the appropriation
should be put in one of the regular
appropriation bills, as the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial bill. The
coming session of congress will no
doubt appropriate literally for CEN
Tsus purposes.
A census of the Philippines will
not be included in the coming de-
cennial census for the reason that
one was taken in 1903 and it is
doubtful whether the Philippines
government would care to bear the
cost Of another enumeration so soon.
Important changes in the taking
and compilation of the census and
in the method of publication of the
returns will be made. For one
thing, the returns will be greatly
condensed. The twelfth census re-
quired 10 volumes. 1t is the expec-
tatiOn of Director North that the
thirteenth census will be published
in six volumes, or seven at the out
side. The mortality statistics of the
last census will be dropped. They
were found unsatisfactory as collect
ed at the last decennial census. The
reduced number of volumes will con-
siderably lower the cost of the thir-
teenth census.
begin Before Vacations.
A change that is believed to be in
the interest of accuracy and COM
pleteness will require the enumera-
ton of population to be made as of
April Is instead of June l, as has
been the case heretofore. The rea-
son for this is interesting. The popu-
lation of the United States is exhibit
ing more and more tendency to go
to the seashOre and the mountains
and the lakes to avoid the hot
weather, and it is going much earlier
than formerly. The result is that
enumerators who are set to work
June LIST are certain to find many
homes deserted and their occupants
gone away for the summer. 1t is
thought April 1st will be a much
more satisfactory date for this rea-
son. At that time of year the exodus
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