Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-20
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396 EnumeratorS viii Ask
Residents of Capital "a
Questions.

Three hundred and ninety-six emu
merators will start out early on the
morning of April to count your nose,
your neighbors nose and the nose of
every other person in Washington, to
ask YOU "a questions which touch on
many phases of your life and to es-
tablish you as permanent entity in
the great collection of Uncle Sans cit-
henry Some one once said that death
and taxes are inevitable. That being the
case, so Is the census enumerator. Some
time next Summer, after your census
enumeration has asked you the "a ques-
tons contained in the census popula-
| ton schedule, you will become a part OF
Uncle Sans permanent recorded fam
lily. The Internal Revenue Bureau may
not get you, but the Census Bureau viii.
If you don't exist, according to some
Government or city records. you must
exist in the records of the Census Bu-
reau. A hundred years or so hence YOU
will be a ghost, with your name, your
sex. YOUR color, your complete individ-
uality. even the fact that you once
owned a radio set, recorded for all time
in the imperishable records OF the Bu-
reau of the Census.
Uncle Sam sees to it that YOU do be-
come a permanent part of his record
and on April / he will set about the
task Of making you a part. With no
embarrassment to the individual, with
no reason to search or pry into his per-
sonal history, the task of demonstrating
in a completely impersonal way will
start little more than a month hence.
Most Complete Ever Taken.
The forthcoming census. according to
j. Sterling Moran, undoubtedly viii be
the most complete ever undertaken. Mr..
Moran is the individual to whom Uncle
Sam has intruSted the job of finding
out the facts he wants to know about
the $4,000 persons residing in the Dis
trict of Columbia. That figure-570, 900
lis tentative and may not mean
thing. But it is as close as the Census
Bureau can come to a guess on the
population of the Capital City of the
United States, as judged by the average
annual increase during the years from
1910 to 1920, in the latter of which
years the latest previous complete pop
ulation census was taken.
Did you know that the United States
gains one person in population every %
seconds of every 24-hour day? Did you
know that the population Of the United
States at 10 am. yesterday was 1872
048,o84, and that If will 60 on, accord
ing to the tabulations Of the statistical
experts, for countless years to come,
with an increasing tempo each 10 years?
Down there In building D, at Sixth
street and Missouri avenue, stands
great arrangement OF levers and timing
gears, actuated by electricity, which
shows graphically the growth of the
population Of the United States second
by second. Ten years ago the Stats
ticians got their heads together over
a collection of facts on population as
gathered by the 1920 decennial census
and decided that these are the facts
on the population Of the United States:
One birth every Is seconds.
One death every % seconds.
One immigrant every ~ minutes.
One emigrant every 51a minutes.
Net gain, one every % seconds.
Machine Grinds Out Figures.
It may or may not be true, but, at
any rate, the statisticians say so, and
the machine stands there, next to the
ONCE Of Director Of the Census Steuart, |
and Mechanically grinding |
out the figures on population from Sec
ond to second, hour to hour. day to |
day, and until such time as a revision |
OF the population schedules shall de- |
mand revision Of the estimated fig |
ures and tell the experts whether they |
must slow down or speed up the in |
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compensators by which the machine is
actuated.
Some time during the coming Sum-
mer the Census Bureau will be able to
make public a nose-by-nose count of
the population Of the United States,
Then, and then only, can it tell how
near its estimates are to the actual
truth OF the matter And even then
there may be some mistakes, for peo-
pie don't stay in one spot all the time,
and they may be missed wherever they
are. But there will not be many missed,
the bureau says.
And right along that line Mr.. Moran
asks the cooperation of every resident
Of the District of Columbia who may
happen not to be at home between
April l and April IS in leaving informa-
ton at his residence which will COM
plete the census record. Census pro-
cedure makes it mandatory that each
person be enumerated at "lais usual
place of abode" and in cases where it
is known the family or members Of it
will not be in Washington during the
first two weeks Of April, he asks that
the absent members I'LL out an absent
family schedule in advance Of the CEN
sus date and transmit it to him. He
may be reached at the Census Bureau
''I hope that families who plan to be