Evening journal., 1920-05-18
nation AWAITS \
CENSUS RESULT
Country's Population Won't
Be Known Until Early
in October
TAKES YEAR TO
TABULATE FIGURES
BY RALPH r. COUGH.
unILed Pros sIan correspondent.

lllANA IANCN 1AAiA illItrUUlufHAs
WASHINGTON. May i7-Aided by
machines which perform
Of automatic calculation, d.
600 expert statlstlclans and clerks in
the employ OF the census bureau here
now are sorting and classifying the ~
greatest mass OF statistical infOrma-
tion ever collected.
The population Of the United States
will be ready for announcement some
time in October under the present
plans, Director sam l.. Rogers said to-
day This population total, eXpected-
TO be about i06,0O00O0 VIII be an
nOunced also by States. State popula-
tlon announcements will begin to is-r
sue from the bureau in about six
weeks.
Announcement OF city populations
began February 2i and about 600 have
been made. AZ least 1000 more city
population announcements may be ex-
pecied. bureau officials estimate.
Congressman, senators, civic organ
ization representatives and newspa-
permen appear at the census bureau
twice daily TO receive city population
announcements. Each by special tele- >
phone or telegraph arrangements pre-
viously set up, tries to be the FIRST TO
get the news to his home town or city
Of its new nose count.
Newspapers extra" on II and
crowds gather at bulletin boards. It's
big news" census bureau officials
are told. Local boosters cheer-some-
| times.
Complaints are flooding the bureau
| They're usually from local boosters,
civic bodies and sometimes from
chambers OF commerce protesting the
count The enumerators didn't get
everybody in the count, is the text oi
most Of the complaints.
Thank you for calling this 10 our
attention" reads a form letter which
goes out Immediately under the sigma
ture OF Director Rogers. The letter
promises an Investigation OF the count.
And the boosters walt, but
"ln only two cases have we found
that the complaints were justified and
that out count was Incorrect said
Rogers. In these cases the enumer-
ators skipped small groups OF peo-
Local boosters have complained OF
the results in about half OF the towns
and cities so far announced. census
bureau officials emphasize that they
welcome complaints, they are just as
anxious TO correct mistakes as are the
- local lnIlhDllaNl1t AAIe 0NeAeA y.
But counting populations Of cities
countries. states and even the u. 5
. is but one function OF the census, onl'
cials emphasize.
The census is intended to furnish
: Information on which better govern
d ment may be based, according 10 III
rector Rogers. This is why the grea
- mass OF economic and social data !
- included. The bureau now is near'
I, half finished with the agriculture
and manufacturers census. lniorIna
80 zion collected in these investigation
ID Is that OF most use to business men
= government officials and economists
y The agricultural census lncluues
count OF the number OF larlhs III IN s
- United States, number OF farmers. pm
clndfng owners. managers and farr
III hands. and the value or all crOp'
II similar information is collected IN III
u manufactures census.
The present census Is eXpeclea =
| show that there are in the unite
STATES 100000 farms as compare
with & 900 600 in 1910 To be classine
as a farm. a piece OF land must IT
cmde at least three acres must nav
produced $500 worth Of crops pc
YEAR for the past few years or mus
II have required the entire time OF
III least one man TO cultivate II.
To complete the present census W.
II require at least three years, accoruiilt
| II 10 Director Rogers. Although "
| vi enumerators are all done, except ..
! III working on the farm census anu y
| on the manufactures census soI..i SUI.
| ana classifving the data they obtain'
| vyilI take months. The printing ai
: vii require "A long period. The r
suits viii be printed in twelve lar
. volumes 900 .,,,,,,.,, q, n
IN. yyere reguired to collect the ordina
i20 nonulaiion returns now all IN. ~ ~
!. received about S60OO,OOO Tor th'
.I, io me entire cost Of this census as1 Z,
'o' placed at approximately eZoOVo'V'
. This includes printing.
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