Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
u. S. PREPARES FOR 1880 CENSUS
Bill to Start Thrce-Ycar Preliminary Work Come Up
Dcccmber-Tota Expected to Be in Neiehborhood Of
122O0000O
122,OO0,000.

Arrangements also must be made to
ascertain the population in correc-
tional and charitable institutions
throughout the country The popula-
ton on board ships owned by the
United States must be recorded and
persons who happen to be at Summer
or Winter resorts when the enumera-
ton is taken must be credited TO their
regular places of residence. Men sta
toned at Army posts also must De
recorded.
includes Possessions.
Not only will the millions in the
United States be- counted but the CEN
qus also will be taken in Alaska. Hawai-
and Porto Rico The governors OF
Guam, Samoa and the Virgin Islands
and the governor of the Panama Canal
zone also are directed by the pending
bill to take a census in the same year
in accordance with plans to be APP
proved by the director Of the census.
The growth Of suburban population
on the outskirts of large urban COM
munities is expected to be an inter-
esting phase of the next census.
The actual count Of inhabitants Of
all the cities and States Is expected to
be available by December. 1890, ac-
cording TO DR. j. A. Hill. assistant to
the director of the bureau. but that
is by no means the end OF the task
/ for the Census Bureau. The enor-
nous Job of classifying and compiling
/ the facts obtained in the enumeration
! into useful tables of statistics will go or
+ beyond that date.
! The bureau receives many sugges-
! tions for new informal ton in connec-
/ ton with the census. but in weighing
! these proposals it has to bear in minc
/ that the addition of a single new in
quiry means that it must be obtained
and classified with regard TO more thar
hundred million persons.
The bureau has been taking a census
Of manufacturing biennially and a
/ census of agriculture at five-year in
/ teryals, but in the regular course OF
/ events both will be made in 1880 along
with the decennial count of population
The census of agriculture furnishe,
/ the Department of Agriculture with
/ basic data upon which TO carry on adj
/ ditional research work. 1t covers sta.
tistics on crop acreage. number of live.
stock land tenure land values. mort.
! gage debt, animal and mechanical
/ power and equipment and other val.
liable information relating to the pro.
duction of food and raw materials.
HoOver's Suggestions.
When the House committee was con.
sidcring the census bill early this yea
/ the desirability OF adding the proposed
/ census of distribution to the othel
/ classes of data to be obtained this timC
| was pointed out to the committee in
letter from Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover He recalled how In
! the last few years the business worlc
has developed widespread use of sys.
| tematic statistics in the better guidance
/ of business.
Through the recommendations O.
/ your committee" he wrote. the censu.
/ Of manufactures has been changed from
/ quinquennisl 10 biennial 1t has added
greatly TO the stability of the producing
industries Likewise you increased the
/ frequency Of the national census o.
agriculture from decennial to quinquen'
NAL with a like result"
He wrote that the array Of bushes:
statistics available relate almost en-.