Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-03
OVER 5000 BLANKS
 SIGNED IN NORWICH.
Checking is Still Progressing, But
 More Help is Needed.

f-
 A total of $500 census blanks cor rectly filled out have passed through the hands of the committee in charge of the directing of the local military census. This was the figure given out by Tyler D.. Guy at closing time on Friday afternoon. Mir Guy has peer quarters in the Chamber of Commerce building almost since the day the census was started in this city. All the blanks that have reached the Grosvenor Ely chairman, have been sent to Hartford, where the state hea dquarters is busily engaged in tabulating the returns for the state. The checking is still progressing. but the attendance of volunteer work CTS fell off noticeably on Friday. Four of the old guard were present again at the commercial school on Friday nearly all day. in addition to the | other volunteers who showed. The old guard who are daily putting in an appearance in the checking depart ment are doing a noble work in the interests of the census. They have | devoted considerable time and energy to the checking, etc, which Is by no means the easiest work in the world. Today it is hoped that a large force | of volunteers will show up to do a little towards helping along the final lists which are now being prepared for the canvassers who will visit the | houses in an effort to get the names lof those who have been skipped in the census taking so far. It is suggested l that any men or boys over Is who
 have not yet filled out their blanks do so at once at the nearest information bureau. This means just so much less | for the canvassers to do next week. | Don't ask the state headquarters in l Hartford of the Connecticut bureau of military census what town of the 168 in the state is the '.piker town about | which there has been so much talk
 the past two or three weeks, for the | headquarters will not tell you. In fact, the answer given there last night was that there now is no "piker town in the whole state of Connecticut.
 When Governor Marcus H. Holcomb
 had called upon every town and city | in Connecticut to help in the Connec- l ticut military census. each to the ex- tent of taking the census within it's | own borders, and one town had writ
 the governor that it could not do the I work unless it received money with l which to pay census takers, that town
 was promptly dubbed 'tl1e pil<er town
 of Connecticut" at the state headquar-
 ters.
 T At the same time the opinion was
 expressed that. after it's officials un-
 derstood what was being done and re-
 the census by. patriotic volunteer
 workers. the "piker town" would
 promptly step up to scratch. This l view proved correct for the con1rnu l nifty which once was known as the
 "piker town has organized volunteer 1 workers and is making a better rec
 ord than some towns which were well
 under way when it was still in the 1 "piker" class.
 | If every town wit continue in the
 good work it has already well under ! way, according to the state headquar-
 ters, the census work will go through | al h towns are working hard to see that
 theirs is not the last in the state tc get its returns completed to state 1 headquarters.
 headquarters what is the 'piker town | because there "ain't none.
 Hundreds of Connecticut trained nurses are ready to respond promptiS Ip Y , l shown by their returns in the Connec-
 lieut. military census, now in progress The splendid response Of nurses oi | the state or outside its borders to re l vnond to emergency calls either in the
 stata o,- outside it's borders has more | thaT1 pleased those in charge of the
 census york at the state headquar- | fers in HSxtford. Houghton Bulkeley
 is supervisinE tnis part or the "orf
 Sneciai bfanlSs were prepared fol the nurses enfoInents, ana thess % oH %ert T, n,ore reoisfered nurses In Connecticut As soon ss the letters hAd time tt l res ch tIleiT destination and the nurses had a chanee 10 hll m the planks ant .n' 1 mail them returns began to be rece1v ed at the state headquarters. Within l fwentv-four hours a large number O. inc nIIrses had responded. A larg' n,,nher of the returns had been re 1 nsixaS and tabulated at state head l c,1artzrs up to last night. This fea I f1Ire of the census work Is of the ut
 f7i1dst importance and Joseph w. Al | 4r.m arSey n ! an appeal that those nurses who hav' ]. | not yet forwarded their completed I 1 census blanks to headquarters in tn ? return envelopes which they wer 2 | out delay.
 Besides asking for specific inforTna 3 ton concerning age, weight, height X l training, telephone number, expert 5 ence and other things, the blanks asl | two questions concerning willingness to respond to an emergency call Tn . first asks if the nurse would respon' s to such a call in the state and tn ]. | second asks as to willingness to re r spond to a call for service anywhere ]. Nearly all the nurses are ansWerlni f the second question with the Wor' s ives" and an affirmative answer ha l been given to the first question b :. nearly all.
 e Senator C. c. Hemenway of Hart d l ford who represents the Second Sen -Jl atorial District in the upper branc V of the Connecticut legislature, ha
 suggested to the Connecticut burea n | of military census that, in these day n of national crisis, the American fla e should be flung to the breeze iron : every business, manufacturing an n residential building in the state. Tn !. | suggestion was passed along to tn r people of Connecticut at the state cen = sus Headquarters in. Hartford las c night when Joseph w. Alsop of tn :. l special committee of assistants to tn
 governor for the military census saic
 II think Senator Hemenway's idea
 a fine one. These are days when ev :. cry American should be ready to shoN
 his colors. It would be inspiring t = us all to seesthe flag of our countr
 flying from buildings all over tn
 state"
 t OBITUARY. = Albert Coiver.