The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-30
FOR THE NEW CENSUS
THAT IT WILL COST sI4.oOo. .000.
ft ,n .he Thirtesnth Cen.e. to Bs asken
 By tke Unitea states Uov U

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 w.vhinwton.. Nov. 29.-(Special.l- rha Director of the Census mas Just issued his annual report to the Ses.s tsrvs nS Commerce and Labor. Atter reviavvinr the work of the past year and describing the current work ot .tae .ne Emreau. the Director proceeds 70 une in1uaensely important subject Of une nav, csnsns of the United States, the census of 1910. CT fy, regard to It's cost he says: .stirnate that the cost of the thirteenth rAs.sus. including the cost of conouCHne th,. four annual investigations ana ene i've biennial reports that the census Ofiice is required to make silnulIane. ounly with the taking of that census SvtiI 'he sIl.l17 900. The lump sum ap- nropriation to be provided In the ap- nronria ton act for the next fiscal year shos,lds be not less than tl4,VoV'VVo.
 ETeIudtnR the cost of the four annual invest. xations and the TWO pio"hiai reports, the probable cost Of tns ce nnn sns proper Is Is estimated at SiS,yev.Vvo; ss The cost of the last census, that oL Iana was si2.b2O, 0o0. Tn other words, the Director is planning to take the cenaua of 1910 at an increase In cost ny 3oTlv R4fO 900 over the census or Iaons ana this in spite of the enormous growth in the population during Ine past decode. c growth largely contriD- uted by foreign born people Who uo not speak English. q class which It Is very expensive and very difficult 10 enumeraVe. IF the work can be accomplished for .his auill. it will be the first time m the I history Of the nation that a census mas been taken and complied at practically the same cost as tho prior enumeration: | Formerly the incraese in the cost oL the census from decade to decade mas | been about 50 per cent, and on this haste the cost of the thirteenth census | nroner. exclusive of the four annual l ana two biennial. reports. would De sfs .750. .0OO nearly se,eoO,Ooo more than the Director estimates the actual
 xmorr the reasons which the Direc- for aesiEns for his belief that tnls enornnous saving can be made he places | arst the existence of the permanent l Censua once He says: The fact ! that the ofTfee is now organized at the highest point of efficiency, that no time viii be lost in getting ready, in test ing the attitude of green clerks and m developing new systems. means fully million boIlars' saving In the orsanisa- tFon of the thirteenth census"
 | Another important means of bringing about this saving Is the fact that the Bureau will build and own the neces- sary tabuiating apparatus instead or renting it as heretofore. On July l. 1908. the apparatus which had been Iused in tabuIating the census of 1s00 and which was owned and operated by a private company was withdrawn from tIe Bureau of the Census because the company and the Director could not lagree on the rental to be paid for the Iuse of the mech hanisms. The with
 drawaI of the machines compelled the Director to ask. Congress for an ap- l.. Tor AwnAPfmanfal work in IdevelopinR new mechanisms to be owned, aoptrolled, and operated by the Government. The results of this ex- perimental work have exceeded all expectations. The new mechanisms in- vented are novel in plan and design, are of greater speed and efficiency than those they supersede, and can be operated at a saving in money as com pared with previous expenditures for
 this purpose.
 Several of the new tabulating ma chimes were tried out in the tabulation of the Cuban census. a work completed by the Bureau of the Census for the Cuban Government during the past year. In connection with the tabulat- ing of the census the experiment was
 tried of paying the operators of tabu- lating machinery by piecework The
 results were so satisfactory that a provision has been introduced into the new census bill whereby all opeFators
 of tabuIating machinery at future cen
 suses can be paid by piecework. This
 too, will result in a great saving to the
 Government.
 The savings due to the different
 causes will be almost equal to the total
 amount expended for the maintenance
 of the entire Ce7sEs Bureau between
 the two censuaes. To realize the full significance of this statement, account Vak H, A,Nr .~e Fa.n Nk-A
 the interval between the. censuses the oAice has completed various branches of statistical woFk never before under
 taken, which have involved an expend'
 iture of at least $3,209 900
 The first concerns the method of ma
 king temporary clerical appointment
 during the decenntat census period. "h census bill now before Congress pro vides for a non n-competitive examina
 ton to be conducted by the Civil Serv' ice Commission. A mon competitive
 examination means that every one oi
 the many thousands who may pass thu
 examination will have an equal righ
 to appointment, and that personal ant
 political pressure must in the end, a. ing factor with reference to .he grsa
 body of these temporary employments ! In regard to this the director says; ! cannot too earnestly urge that the di
 rector of the census be relieved fror
 this unfortunate situation. If thes
 clerks can be appointed as needed Ii
 the order certified from that examina
 ton (the order of rank In passlng), better service will be secured than vii l otherwise be possible, the efsicisucY (
 the force will be greatly increased an } the cost of the census correspondtnEl reduced"
 1t may be noted. however that th
 director odes not recommend an eX animation for the position of enCme. .a
 tor. because the service of enumerator
 Is required for a brief time oniy. ant moreover. as 65.000 are necessary ! would be practically impossible to SC . cure them by examination. For cru
 meTators, he recommends the appoint
 ment of students In educational inst tutIons either men or women.
 OMce Accommodation.
 } The other important question is ths Q of proper accommodations for the. Thii teenth- Census. The present eenst
 ! tot. ta hty