Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-12
MiIifsIy Census conluilIee lppuinied
Fast Nesting To Be .1-ld In Common Council Chamber This Afternoon-Mayor t.lyn L. Brown Announces Plan To Be Followed in This CityWork To Be Under taken Immediately.

l@ The military census committee for Norwich has been appointed and work will begin immediately. Such was the announcement made on Sunday even ing by Mayor Allyn l.. Brown in a communication received from him by The Bulletin. The communication follows in full:
 By the courtesy of The Bulletin l am enabled to adopt the use Of the columns as the most expeditions man nef of notifying the following gentle the Norwich Census committee may add that I have not up to the writ ten request asked anyone to assist in the work. feeling sure, that the patri- otism of everyone hereby requested would ensure his fullest possible CO., operation without a previous personal interview to ask him whether he is willing or able to attend to the mat committee is somewhat hastily named and there will doubtless be a number of most important names to be added during the next few days. The com mittee so far selected is as follows:
 First Selectman Casper K Bailey. Alderman William H. Allen, Alderman Guy B. Dolbeare. Registrar of Voters Cornelius D. Downs, Registra< of Vot- CTS Tyler D. Guy. Postmaster John F. Murphy, School Superintendent Ed ward J. Graham, Tax Collector Thos. A. Robinson, Town Clerk Chas. s. Hol- brook, Thomas J. Kelley, Frank Fl Smith, George L. CheSbro, Charles V. James, Herbert R-Branche. Chief of Police George Linton. Robert McNeely. Joseph c. Broadhurst, Arthur G. Crow ell, Col. Charles W. Gale, Louis M. CrandaH, Grosvenor Ely, Thomas H. Beckley.
 (of H. and A. Co.). Frank B. Ricket- son. Herman Jackel Jr.. John F. Rog- CTS, Henry A. Tirrell. William J. Fitz- gerald, Rutherford C. Plaut, George Greenberger. Cesare Del Carlo. John M. Lee Martin RozysId, Arthur B. Sher- man.
 All of the above named are earnest ly requested to meet at 2.30 D. m- to- day, (Monday), at the council chamber in the city hall to begin work.
 ALLYN L. BROWN,
 Mayor.
 Mayor Explains Plan.
 At the common council meeting on Saturday evening Mayor Brown read the following message Gearing on the military census and the plan to be followed by the committee and can vasserS in Norwich
 While there is no need in this time of national crisis of any word from me upon the situation, I am sure that the members of the court of common council will be interested in and that the public at large in this community should know the information given to the mayors called together at Hartford by Governor Holcomb for instructions with regard to the work of taking a census of the man-power and material resources of this state Under authoriz ty of the statute recently passed by the legislature, the governor is proceeding to have this census taken, using as the agency to this end the cities and towns of the state. Where the limits of the city are not co-terminus with those of the town, the work is to be in charge of the mayor of said city under the governors instructions. In the other towns the work will be in charge of of carrying on the work in the differ ent cities and towns is insisted upon, the city of Hartford, which-has already undertaken the work, has outlined, mittee, which is also located in Hart ford. a model for doing this sort of work. and one which it seems to me it would be wisest to follow in taking the census in this city.
 The Plan in Brief.
 The plan in brief is this: In the first place, the mayor named a committee of some 25 persons, selecting those we'll calculated to effectively carry out the work to be done in the shortest possible time- In the second place, this com mittee compiled list as a basis upon which to work, and in making this list, which contained the names of all male residents over Is years of age, the voting list, the list Of personal tax payers, list of the male residents obtained from the postofice, and list Of recent graduates obtained from the school committee were used as a basis In the third place, a card index of all the names on this list was prepared in two ways-drst on white cards show ing the alphabetical list. fer example. Jones. John J., No. 3 Franklin street" and secondly on buff colored cards, geographically, for example, No. 3 Franklin street, John J. Jones'" In the fourth place, canvaSSerS were selected to canvass all of the names appearing in this card index, and the method of procedure adopted was to do it by the unit system, so called-that is, can- wasting each large industry, each bank, each office building, etc, and as the canvass progressed withdrawing the card of each man so covered. All who were not reached by this unit canvass were then taken up geogra pi1kcalIy by blocks, squares. etc, until the whole list was cleaned up. The canvassing of an individual consists of having him fill out blank upon which are ques- tions for him to answer coverin- the necessary points of information re- quested by the federal government. In the fifth place, the information blanks. so obtained, are turned in by the can vassers to the local committee and are Forwarded by this committee to the central committee at Hartford
 Will Tabuiate State Results.
 The plan is for the local committee, after obtaining the information in some such manner as is above out lined, to forward it to the central committee for the state. which is lo- cated at Hartford. This committee will then utilize the latest possible methods of tabulating the results for the whole state, and for this purpose some of the large insurance companies have con tributed the uae of their tabulating machines. Under this system, as I it, every question answered on the information blank has a code example, mans oceupa- ton as a plumber might be indicated by the number 3, as a grocer f. as a carpenter 6; his age would be indicated