The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-04-11
The Cherry
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we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly. ..........

with the census now on 1t may
be possible for the citizenry to for
get unemployment, prohibition and
the appointment of an injunction
Judge to the supreme court.
The census will bring on the great
est gabfest the country has had since
Lindbergh flew the Atlantic.
Bright young people and certain
number of political hacks will come
nosing around the place asking more
darn fool questions than the village
gossip.
It's getting so that nobody can have
any secrets any more. The census
man will take look at you and ask
you whether you are male or female
and you're not allowed to knock him
down.
Then he'll want to know how many
grandfathers you have, or have ever
had and why.
In the old days of the West and
Southwest any man who asked any
body half the questions these census
persons will ask would have been shot
twelve times and then hung for good
measure. A persons business was
the business of nobody else in those
days and place.
Some fine questions are included in
the list. It's good to get line for
| the first time on how many people are
idle and if possible why, though the
why part of it isn't so much Of mys-
terry to anybody except government
officials and uplifters.
Then you'll be asked if you own 8
radio. Such silly question to ask
you. The census taker ought to ask
| the neighbors instead. And how ole
were you when you were first mar
ried You'll have to answer, but Pau
Pry was a novice, let it be said
Other questions could be suggested
How old were you when you were
weaned and when and how did yoI
cut your first teeth, if any.
At what age did you change to reg
ular pants or knickers, or whateve
they were then called? Did you G,
barefoot and did you ever sit on
| tack?
!; They've overlooked ever so man,
things. The Sewing Circle could hav
given them pointers on how to di,
out the important facts.
Privacy? Applesuace! We ar
getting to be nation gone nutty TO
asking questions. If you're goo
question asker you can get jo
almost any place. Ever SO many pee
pie are just dying to know thing.
/. Gossip, CAB and gable!
But, seriously, great many of tn
help budding manufacturers sell NOR
fly traps. This is no census; this
market survey and that's where tn
joke is tucked away.
Yeah; and every time you pass tn
census taker thereafter you can kno'
he's winking wicked eye and sayin
to himself, "And what l know abou
/, YOU"
Once upon a time the census was
I count of numbers. Today it's got
be national collection Of geographic
and appetites. Between the censu
man and the income tax man yo
: might as we'll tear down the shade
, and put glass in the whole house. Th
A census man will likely ask yo
whether you wear pajamas anywa
and you'll have to tell him.
Some folks roar because it is pro
posed to ask aliens to register, jus
once. All the alien would have to te
would be how he got here. The citize
has to tell why he got here. Don
pity the alien. He's got all the lucl
It's only a symptom-a symptor
of the growing might of thing cal
ed bureaucracy and it is no sue
laughing matter as the coming gat
fest might indicate.
Under the surface of it all is tn
cracing to know it all and do it a
for everybody, and every time a ne'
game is discovered there are NOR
jobs for more little bureaucrats VIII
can and do tell you where you get Of
at-Whereunon Won will get off with