New Britain herald., 1917-03-02
UNABLE ID FINISH
 CENSUS BY MARCH }
Headquarters Expects to Con-
 clude Work in Few Days

Owing to the unusually large mum her of names to be inventoried in thi. city. the military census taking which has been going on for the past week. will probably not be completed tomorrow. as desired by the state headouarters. The clerks and emu meraters are working diligently. how ever. and expect to complete the work within a. few days.
 Candies For Workers.
 Last evening a small army of work ara from the Stanley Works office under the direction of E.. W. Christ worked at the census bureau unti. long after g o'clock asserting ana | checking the multitude or oiahks turned in during the day. William ta. Judd. MT. Christ and H. W. Briere l were in charge of the workers ana the large force of volunteer assistahts worked with such snap and vim that over 4,00O census blanks were nan dled up to closing time. pteasunt .l surprise for the lady worKeis Was eno | gift of a five-pound box or MArs l Garden chocolates from the D1cAlnsoi Drug company. The thougntfuiness in sending the sweets was recelveo with expressions of delight on tue part of the fair workers. Ihose lFoHa ]! the Stanley Works office who so apiy assisted in the work were the Mlsscs l E.. Bacon, Anna Thompson, E. Anoer- son. A. Stromquist, l.. hailDefg ara ! E. Beale and Messrs. Corr1dan, Mil Ter, Paulson, Christensen, H. ". Chamberlain. G. M. Conolan ana E. E. Ogren. Others who aided in the evenings work were, Herbert A. Johnson. Hobart Coridah. Lowell s. Pickup. Warner Johnson. Thomas Il. Clarkson, Marshall Coot. H. c. Bii- lings. M. sanderson and Elsie M. Loomis.
 This morning Aides Johnstone Vance and E. Burlington Schurr be- gan the days work half hour earlier to have everything in readiness for the morning work. which began in earnest at o'clock sharp. Chairman manner in which the aides, commie- sioners, assistants, canvassers and all workers are performing their duties. Everybody is doing his or her bit to make the census in New Britain com plete in as short time as possible. On duty this morning were the Misses Mildred Hellberg, Myrtle c. Durham. Irene Loomis. Ethel Mount, Vera
 Schade, Helen Allen, Mrs. w. l..
 Hatch, Mrs. James E. Cooper and
 Mrs. Charles N. Pinches.
 Big Day Tomorrow.
 It issexpected that tomorrow will
 be the real big day and that, the largest number of workers as yet will be on hand to clean up the work of the week. Superintendent Stanley Holmes of the public schools has arr ranged t6 have twenty High school students on hand to assist in the of flee work and Scout Commissioner Elmer T. Thienes will have about a dozen scouts on duty to perform multitude of various tasks.
 Many Nationalities Discovered.
 Every one of the large New Britain factories Is a veritable tower of Babel in the number of tongues spoken by the men who toll there. A casual in- spection of men in large plant shows twenty different nationalities. with others doubtless to be found by a careful examination. There are to be found men of English. Russian, Italian. French, German. Austrian. Turkish, Greek. Rumanian, Lithuani- an, Canadian, Irish. Persian, Assyrian, Armenian, Swedish. Polish, Scotch, Danish and Portuguese extraction, who have not become citizens of the United States, as we'll as a host of others bearing foreign names who have taken out their papers--a con- dition which causes a little specula- ton as to just what problems may confront the authorities if 1t becomes desirable to classify the men among
 us and assign them to parts of re- sponsibility-as every assignment must be to greater or less degree. Probably in many cases the senti-
 mental regard for the land of their birth has outweighed any considera- ton of present environment, but 1t would seem as though in the present need for loyal devotion to the country 1 large proportion of the foreign born ! men who have seen no special reason ! for changing their allegiance would do so. The inquiries at the census
 bureau indicate that the leaven is l working and if the census were re-
 peated six months from the now. the l number of members of other nations would doubtless be very much less | Some Are Trained Soldiers.
 1 Any one who has watched a cos-
 mopolitan parade such as occurred | here at tho time of the Elihu Bur
 ritt celebration will recall the preci-
 sion and military air of the people
 of tho nations of Central Europe. As ! rule the men are trained as sol- diers and have seen service in their
 home lands. Their training should be of value if these men become de-
 lenders of their adoption, both in the
 saving of time in training them and
 in the assistance they can give their
 native born comrades who have never
 tasted the experience of compulsory
 military training.
 One Factory Finished.
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