The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-12-16
SWEEPING CANVAS FOR LUBBOCK'S
POPULATION MADE LAST TUESDAY
JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SCATTERED LIKE BLUE
QUAIL OVER THE CTTY-VISTTED EVERY HOME
PEOPLE RECEIVED THEM COURTEOUSLY
With Few Exceptions the Questions Were Answered Promptly
and Much Interest Was Manifested by Many of the People
observation-disclosures How Many People Live in Lubbock?

ssNo wanna Join the Army was
the reply one Mexican gave TO the
Junior Chamber ~ Commerce Zen
sus takers Tuesday morning "heh
thew began to ask him questions.
Say. you can't fool me inns
whole thing Is just a hatched up
scheme 10 raise our taxes ! am a
putting out anything at al, ana ne
didn't. Not ever how many were
m his family much less how oid
VAS his house and its value, etc. ele.
Bot on the whole The census tax
ers found the entire citizenship nol
onlv willing. but anxious 20 help them
In completing their work with the
icas. noesible delay. All told, there
were 66 men out on the job ana WIN
one exception, the programme wen.
thru "a MANNED. II was figured Una,
IN average Of three hours would
co,cr The various territories allotted.
Forrtc.n hundred blanks we're run
~ and distriButod But after me
v,crt ct under way distress cans
,vere phoned In from various paris
- town and extra blanks had 10 ne
,,,ouna or on the mimeograph ana
snsbed 10 them a total of ZiVOV
hi.,ts we're put out and approx
.a~tsiv 1900 were returned. There
sre II course a few duplication, q
few houses that were mi.sed ana
CONSIDERABLY number ~ servants,
cooks. and other colored people INA.
were missed 4 rcchccE is oeinR
made BY the Chamber of Commerse
on these and the final figures Wui
not be announced for several day4
One team caught a boomerang IN
the territory they drew. The to"n
was divided into nine districts ana
~ enusains II each ten men drew
foy districts. The winner Of District
m, or everything North Of Fourth
stree, thought that he had n snap IN
tbat thinIy settled part Of town. But
thew soor learned their mistake ~
f,vc-thirfy Tuesday afternoon, they
dravv.d their heel into the Office,
Sead tired. about half Disguised with
the world and very SIRE that they han
walked not less than o million miles.
Farl Hunt. NJ. O. Owens. Earnest
Conley. and one or two others were
in this section.
In short the Sc men started a.
nine o'clock and reported back all
the way from elcven-thir'y TO five
thirty. Now the big job in the Cham
her ~ Commerce office ~ 20 com
rio iris information OF course u
L not much Of a job least q Is
horcd IA, 4 viii be compiled BY the
fret Of January b. everyone is
harry for We have what We went
after and IN GOOD shape
wha, I, The Population % Lubbock :
That was the question that folks
started % uhoning IN before four
o'elork Tuesday afternoon. lnci-
IDENTIFY that - \ question that viii not
10 decided for ten days yet--for
there Is lot Of rechecking and tally
no m 10 be done before the figure
can be announced. There we're some
Few families missed especially coli
o,ed families that live in the back
wards Of white families who forgot
to report them.
N there is family in town that
was not reported Tuesday. please call
the Chamber Of Commerce office,
AGO and give the information IN or
der that every human may be IN
cuded Some Of you were not az
home when the census takers called
and some Of you were asleep OF IN
.he hack yard We have fifty blanks
with house number on u, but no
name or other information. II you
don't phone in with this Information
h will mean that We have TO take a
car and hunt You up-for We want
Al count every human we have IN
town. Il b. part u your obiga-
,ion as citizen 90 assist the town
in making the best possible showing.
phone in your information II you 90
not know that you were listed.
a IS Gold Piece
Will be given as a Christmas pres
ant 10 the one guessing the closets to
the actual population Of the city. The
onlv requirement Is that the number
he plainly printed on a Postal Card
on the front side with the address
md that your name and address be
given on the back side--the side that
e supposed 10 take the message. Get
that straight. A Post Card or a Pos
tai Card addressed 10 the Junior
chamber u Commerce, City, with
YOUR guess in plain printed numbers
on the front side. TN the other SIDE
YOUR name and address. Makes no
difference whether Il Is a picture card
ar plain. Any variation from this
form will throw the card out of the
ronfesf. Anybody and everybody
c.r send In one guess. Each MEM
49, ~ the whole family u sixteen
ear send In one number. but each
-. ,.,,tef he On senarnto cards.