Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
ARE HURRYING ALONG
 THE MILITARY CENSUS
Approximately 7,2oo Blanks Have Been
 Returned to Local Headquarters.

The Iatest lis. of returns announced
 at o'clock Monday afternoon at the
 military census headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce building was as l follows:
 Eaton Chase company, c. DelCarlo, | Shetucket club QnfoTmation), A. Tor
 rance. American Metal company, | American Strawboard company Fa- 1 gan's Smoke Shop (information). The committee directing the canvass, F. B. Ricketson, chairman, Is very de- I sirous that all blanks to be filled out should be completed and turned in at ! the census headquarters in the Cham Der of Commerce building, without de- lay. At the present time about 7,200 blanks have been turned in properly filled out and a box was ready for shipment to the state headquarters at
 Hartford, Monday night.
 The checking is still progressing at the commercial school but not as rap
 idly as the committee in charge hoped
 for.
 Monday Principal Newton of the
 Broadway school sent team of twelve
 volunteers to the commercial school to
 help in this work and several of the
 public school teachers also volun-
 teered. Mir. Crandall who has charge
 of this work said Monday afternoon
 that it seemed to be about the same
 people who responded so nobly each
 day and he thought that it was time
 for some of the other patriotic sons and daughters of Norwich to come
 to the front.
 Two thousand blanks have been sent
 to the state headquarters from Nor
 wich by the committee on results and
 Grosvenor Ely, chairman of this com mittee, said Monday night that. a few | more thousand could have been sent l if the work was not handicapped by 1 the serious lack of volunteers The | committee results complete their | part of the work as fast as the blanks | are turned over to them ready for | shipment but they cannot go ahead | until the volunteer workers have taken | off the names from the remainder Of | the blanks. The plan is to have the names copied from all the blanks, then send the blanks to the state headquar- ters immediately. The names can be checked up from the lists prepared by the stenographers and others who volunteer their services.
 When it was seen that the work was being seriously handicapped by the lack of helpers the telephone was called up by the committeeman all but ten were too busy to give an hours time It was remarked upon by an observer that the ten women who did find time to help along the cause had been doing so almost since the census taking was started. The men and women who are contributing their services are practically the Sa me peO- pie who are daily seen at the head quarters. Although the call has been sent out for volunteer stem ographers only a small per cent1ge of the S5 or 90 in this city have respond ed. In fact the percentage was some thing like one per cent Monday even l ing. It has been suggestA that the girls who are wearing tN8 Natoinal League of Women Workers, buttons put in an appearance today and do a little towards helping Governor Hol- comb and Uncle Sam in their policy 35 a e6e not do eseeing ,r copying at the headquarters in the 7 chamber of commerce building as the l.1 blanks have been arranged in lots of | hundred each and each volunteer nay take one of these lots to the of : lee in which she is employed or to ' Ter own home to copy the names. re- 7 Is soon the work is done. Any per | ion who has patriotism enough to con- 2 ribute a few minutes time may mo- : fly Grosvenor Ely by telephone. L. f ,erson at the census headquarters.
 To the volunteers who have helped ' 70 far is due we'll deserved praise for . hey have really done more than their d hare and are still willing to help i whenever they can. .
 Preparedness parades were all right n their place, but the Connecticut mil V tary census, now in progress, is the reatest preparedness parade of all. lave you done your part?
 Connecticut leads in the manufac- E lre of war munitions, insurance the oba eco industry, metal products and racticaI preparedness.
 Probably Sherman was right. War A nay be hell. But 1t is a thousand F mes worse to have war come and f, nen not know what you have to fight 1, vith. Connecticut is doing the right b hing in spending peace hours to learn ii hat she has in the way of war re- s