The Alaska daily empire., 1919-12-15
CENSUS BUREAU GIVES
 OUT CENSUS FACTS FOR
 BENEFIT OF PEOPLE
Census Will Be Taken Next Month, and People Are Asked to Cooperate With Those
 Who Do the Work

tue DaSlS or many SOVefnlnellldt activities and estimates and appor- tionments for the next decade It has asked for the cooperation of the people in all things with those who are charged with the perform ance of this herculean task. In AL aska the work will be done by the United States Bureau of Education. In the States District Supervisors have been appointed to do the work.
 In order that the people may un- derstand something of the work, the Bureau of Census has issued the following:
 Int Fourteenth Decennial Census is to be taken during the month of January, 1920.
 The first census of the United States was taken in 1790, during the administration of George Wash ington. It related solely to popula- | tion.
 The Constitution of the United States requires that a census of the
 
 years It is by this means that the apportionment of the members of the House of Representatives is made as to states
 part of the Department of Commerce It was established as perma-
 time the census work was done by I temporary organization known as | the Census Office. A census of the countrys manuf-
 actures was made for the first time in 1910. Under the present law a | in connection with the Fourteenth Decennial Census and every two | years thereafter.
 An enumeration of the mines and 1 quarries of the United States was
 made for the first time in 1S40. The Sixth Decennial Census, taken
 in 1840, was the first one to cover agriculture statistics, now one of ] the most important parts of the en- 1 tire census.
 The Department of Agriculture
 assisted the Census Bureau in pre-
 pairing the list of questions to be asked of every farmer at the coming census.
 United States marshals acted as enumeratOrs at the first nine dec ennial censuses. Each marshal had as many assistants as were necess ' ,1 Ia a1 1nt A1 territory.
 About $50 people were engaged in taxing the first census of the Unit ed States. The 1920 census will re- quire the services of 90,000. The statistics of the first census of the United States were published in one small volume consisting of 56 pages. The statistics of the 1919 census required 12 volumes having an aggregate of more than 10000 pages.
 There were 6,361,502 farms re- valued at more than 40 billions of dollars. The 1920 census is expected to show more than 7,000,000 farms. The Census Bureau prints a spec ial supplement for each state in the Union containing all the census fig ures relating to the state in quest ion.
 Congress extended the scope of the approaching 1920 census by pro- viding that a census of forestry and forest products should be taken. These subjects were never specifical- ly covered by any past census act. It required Is months to complete the enumeration work for the first
 decennial census in 1790. In 1920 the Census Bureau plans to com plete the enumeration work for the entire country in from two to four weeks aud announce the population | figures in less than three months l from the date the enumeration work
 is completed.
 A heavy concentration on ages
 ending in five and pero are always
 reported at a census. The Census
 overcome this inaccurate tendency
 on the part of the people when stat ing ages.
 ] Every census has disclosed the
 fact that there are more men in the
 United States than women.
 In 1914, the year the last manu- | facture census was taken, there were
 275,O0O manufacturing establish
 ments reported. Int Census Bureau
 expects about 100000 establish
 ments to be listed in 1920. The statistics gathered by the Cen isus Bureau in regard to farms are used quite extensively by the De-
 partment of Agriculture in its work I Jf aiding farmers.
 The ingenious machines used by ithe Census Bureau to count, sort and tabulate the information gath cred by the census enumerators are the product of the Bureaus own laboratory. The sorting machines will take care of 300 cards per min ute, the counting machine can dc i 300 cards d minute and the tabu. Hating machine is capable of hand ling 400 cards each minute.