The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-10
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IL VIII Require y0,000 People to Take
 the Thirfeensh Census.

the Tnfrfeemfh census.
 Washington Herald.
 It will require an army of 10000 peo. pie to take the thirteenth census in 1910. {.
 The task of making the enunera- ton of the s0.00p.o00 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 It will be the most gigantic work of enumeration that has ever been attempted in this or any other country and it is intended to reach the acme of correctness and thoroughness. Not merely count and compilation concerning the population alone. 1t will include a census of ag- ricuifure. manufactures, mines and
 Director S. N. D. North of the Cen sus Bureau. Is already getting ready Tor the thirteenth census. He has been planning 1t for 6 year or more
 It was hoped by Mir. North that the Crumpacker 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 meas ures 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. It ls the first bill of high privi- lege on the House calendar, and it Is expected 1t will be taken up the first or second day of the session and dis- posed of by the House. It 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 the measure No delay In the Senate. either in committee or on the floor. Is anticipated.
 The Large Cost.
 It will cost about S14.o00. 900 to take the thirteenth census. but this h not carried In the Crumpacker bill, as 1t is on the House calendar. It was In the bill at first, but the Speaker and Chair man Tawney of the House Committee on Appropriations. thought It unwise 10 make so large an authorization a year before 1t would be used, and there was also feeling that the appropria- ton should be put in one of the regu- lar appropriation bills. as the IeKisia- tive. executive and judicial bilL The coming session of Congress will no doubt appropriate liberaily for census purposes.
 A census of the Philippines viii not " AANSAAAC0 At tt0 CQHllnK QHE8nnfAI census. for the reason that one was ta- ken in 1903, and It is doubtful whether the Philippine government would care 10 bear the cost of another enumsFa- tion 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 re- turns will be greatly condensed. The Ualffh@ It Is the expectation of Director North that the thirteenth census will be published in six volumes, or seven at the outside. The mortality statistics of the last census will be dropped. They were found unsatisfactory as col. lected at the last decennial census. The reduced number of volumes will con- siderably lower the cost of the thir- teenth census.
 A change that is believed to be in the Interest of accuracy and completeness will require the enumeration of popu- lation to be made as of April 15 in- stead of June 1, as has been the case The reason for this Is in- teresting. The population of the Uni- ted States is exhibiting more and more ! tendency to so 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 are certain to and many houses deserted and their occupants gone away for the summer. It is thought April IS will be a much more satisfac- tory date for this reason. At that time of year the exodus to the resorts will not be begun.
 Under Civil Service.
 Provision win be made for 330 dis trict supervisors and there will be several thousand in the clerical force In the Census Bureau establishment in The number of enumer- ators will be 65,000 As already men, tioned, the total force needed to do the work will approximate 7o.000.
 The clerical force will be under civil Iervice, but it is thought to be imprac- tieable to attempt to make the enor- nous force of enumerators subject to the civil service requirements. Mir. North considers 1t out of the question 10 try to select the enumerators by civ- Il service methods. though objections have been raised by friends of the civil service to the proposition that its workings should not be extended to census enumerators.
 It is apparent that those politicians who are hostile to the civil service see excellent opportunities. in the selection of q vast body of enufnerators in the way. through political preferment, but there is unquestionably l