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 fifteenth dccennial census of the United States.
 It will be an enormous job, and will cost about s40,O00,0O0. Were 1t not for the help of scmi-automatic tab ulatlng machinery, the expense would be four times as great. Indeed, with out that aid, the task could not be ac- complished at all, with its tremendous compeXity of detail.
 In 1850 It IS estimated there will be about 122,000,0OO people in the United States. To count them prop crly, and to obtain detailed informa- tlon in regard to six and a quarter million farms, 1d,00O mines and uuar, res, manufacturing industries of all kinds, and a multitude of other things, IS business wcII-nigh appalling in it's magnitude.
 And all of this information must he gathered in one month To assemble. and tabulate 1t will necessarily occupy much longer time.
 The entire area of the country nu~t first be divided into co ,O00 "cnumcra, ton districts" each of just the right size to be covered by single onumcra tor In cities, the districls will aver age l,SOO people; in rural areas. fewer. But in rural regions the enumerators will be required not only to count the people, but also to obtain data relating to farms.
 Here, then, will be 10000 available short-tlme jobs, paying $7o to S125. The way to get one is to write to the Bureau of the Census, Washineton, D. c., which will return a blank, to he filled out by the applicant. stating his qualifications.
 By next April the Bureau of tho Census will begin to take on additional clerks, in Washington for tabulatng and other work, their number during the Summer and Fall rising to G,000 or perhaps 1000. Any one may apply for one of these jobs. but must pass q civil service examination. By late Autumn these temporary employees will begin to be discharged in mum bers, but it always happens that some of the most efficient are permanently retained by the Government in one or another of the executive departments
 For each family he visits, the cnumerator must fill out a schedule blank, with mention of the sex, age, color, place of birth, etc., for each Of its members. All such schedules, a well as those relating to farms, are to be transmitted to Washington through the hands of census supervisors, who. numbering 510, wil! have their office, al! over the United States.
 Upon these schedules will be based (so far as population and farms ar' concerned) all the work of the fifteenth census It will be necessary first to tab ulate and classify inc information they contain, and the initial step in this process is to transfer the data reported for each individual person to card This is accomplished, not by writing on the card. but by punching through il number of hoics. the positions of which on the card indicate the facts.
 The 122,000,000 cards required fo, this purpose. stacked in racks seven feet high, will occupy more than | quarter of an acre of floor space.
 After being punched, the cards will be sorted by electrical machines by sex, color. and nativity. The result will be
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Expert Slaii>liciHns of tlc Bureau ol Census ave Carefully Estimated That the Number of Marriages in ihc | x. Durin. lo30 Will Average One
 for Every 2l Seconds.

99,000 will succumb to aroplcxv or soItcnjng of the brain; 3G,OO0 will die of tuberculosis. and about an equal number will fall >lctims tu pneumonia.
 Tbrcc-tirths of inc people of the Cnltcd States OncIdung chIldrcnp arc unmarried; a little more than onc-thlrd arc married, anI not uuite onc-tWcnticth arc widowed
 Nearly l05 boy babic~ are born for every 100 girl babies. but su many more of the girls survive that they catch up in numbers with the boys by the end of the first year. In sum total the males in the United States outnumbcr the females by twcnty-four in every 1000
 In Idaho there are 223 men for every 100 women In Montana there are l60 men for every 100 women. In Nevada. l52; in Arizona, 140: in Oregon, l2@. and in California. I23 fol every 100 women. The disparity in favor of the masculine gender in those States. as well as in Wyoming and South Dakota, is so great as to
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nituue, h c population of the United States being st that time less than 4.000, ,O0O.
 The census enumerators of 1950 will have their difficulties in collecting facts for their schedules, People are often sus, plcious or. for other reasons. reluctant to answer the Govern ments questions.
 It was quite otherwise when the first Roman census was taken. under Seryius Tullius, sixth kinr of Rome. Every citizen was re. qurcd to appear on the Campus Martins and declare on oath his name, his dwelling place and the value of his property, under pen. atty of having his possessions contiscated, and of being scourged and sold as a slave. Tn such Cir cumstances there was no trouble Tn making the census full and complete. The census man was not obliged to go from house 10 houset to find the people; they were only too anxious to find him.
 But the Federal census of 1g2O Will be really very modern in its character, with its thorough and detailed analyses of the popula- ton of the United States and the country agricultural. industrial and other activities, a devc1on- ment of the last fifty years. It Will be, to great extent. . machine census: for, wjthou, machincs, its instructive results could not be produced.
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modern conditions, can get along very well without a woman to take care of him. \ generation ago. "old maids and unmarried men of mature years were cXccptionaI; today there are twenty, perhaps thirty, times as many ot cacn group.
 Nevertheless, during the year 1930, q baby will he born in the United States every twelve seconds, Every tWeuty-four seconds there will he a marriage, giving expectation of filled cradles, and five of the latter will be supplied with occupants every minute.
 In the meantime, of course, people will he dying, and the passing bell tilguratNcIy -pcaking) must toll every twcnty-threc seconds. During the year 1880 tuSlng approximate figures of
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the same q: if all the people repre- sontcd by the cards were similarly sorted out. Then the cards will be run through other machines which count other items. such as age and occlpa- non. lhcsc ingenious machines arc able to count sixty dirTcrcut items simultaneously, printing the tabulatcd results on large sheets.
 One of the items is religion. There arc in tho United States 2I3 varieties of the Christian faith. Nearly one. thlrd of the churchgocrs are Roman Catholics; considerably more than one. nth are Mcthodists; more than one, sixth are Baptists. One churchgocr in sixteen Is Presbyterian; one in thirtv- nlnr IS an EpjSropaIian; one in thirty nne IS a Congrcgationalst. Twelve m every thirteen religious people iu Utah protess the Mormon faith.
 he average person in the country IrhlIdron fncudod) Is "Worth' S24lS. New York State possc5.rs oue-cighth ot the rountY'S total wealth, pcnnsy Nanla onc-tcnth, and Illinois one twelfth. But the richest States in pro portion to population arc those of the Ear W est, while the poorest arc those of the Far South. Thus the average c.tlzcp of the Far West is best off.
 The population of the United Statc> Is now increasing at rate of about ,O00 per year. In 1930 it will be more than thirty times as great a. 1t was in 1790, when the first Federal census was taken, and nearly twice what 1t was forty years ago. History records no other instance in which pop uatlon has increased so rapidly. In 1850 the average number of people per square mile will be over forty. The farm dWellcrs will constitute less thar 3O per cent of the total
 Here Is something both curious and
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suggest the advisability of a concerted movement of Spinsters from the ef1ete East, where the feminine element of the population has a tendency to cquai
 In l790, when the first Federal cen. Sus was taken, the center of the coun- try's population was i'll the neighbor- hood of Buffalo. From 1860 to 1880 it was in Ohio. By 1890 it had movcd across the border line into Indiana. k moved back again into Ohio in 1900; hut in 1920, when the last census was taken, it was once more in Indiana, west of Bloomington. Just where t is now nobody can say until the returns for the census of 1880 are all in.
 All the inhabitants of the United S1atcs. in single file. each one with his
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Facts Worth Knowing
 About the l03O Ccnsus

message to Cnngres. in ix6l l iresinrnt Abraham I.inruln prpdi,t.d
 fhat m l9S0 the United Ststr. vouid nave s5l 'dSh.3li inhahitants
 'ehhhs rNperis estimat, ihst In la2o me p"pnlai'on will he I"2 .UOO .H,O--,.,. ihHn halt "f IinroIn's figure.
 't "ill r"st SiD,n0H0nn tn take in, '"sut. me country will hr divided 'n'" l"".W districts with on, ,.r.,, f""meraf"r to each district In ,ddj ''"n there will he i.uuu tabuIailop ,I.rL, anu "'" census sUpprtisurs
 ne lG'.oo0.Wn rard. required f,r tI, te"sus returns, Y stacked in rack. ,s,., 'ef' "'Eh would nrrupr more thsn :. quarter ot an acre of floor .rpre
 There are aI3 varieties nf inc Cb,i, lian fauh in the nitpd Stulr.
 tue average person is vortI, Sp aIs New York State posses.es onr-eirbth n, the couutry's total wealth, Ienn,ylyanI, one-ienti' and Illinois onc-twrIftb.
 me population of the UDjted Sfat-. is increasing 1,G0U,0nU a year. In Is2o " "iiI he more than thirty tim,s ,x great as II was in i19n. " hen ths br, I fderaf census was taken
 II IS estimated that In 1880 tb, , craze nnmhsr of people per sonsre mil. wlll he more than forty. Farm dve,I.r VIII constitute less than 80 per c.nt ,f thp total ''
 People in the Southern Statc. b., The most children, while in New Un, land families are smallest.
 There arc between twenty and thjrtr times RE many bachelors and "bacheIor maids" today AS there were genera. ton ago.
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upon growth of population than war, pc-t,Ioncc, and all other causes combined,' v
 It is interesting to learn that people in the Southern States have the most chjj, drcu while in New Eng, IWI families arc smallest. Very striking i5 the fact that Louisiana, in propor- ton to population, has twice a many children under five yom of age a5 are found ln Malnr
 Another fact to he cou.io crDn and which has a bearing increase of population, + people arc not marrying noWa, as they formerly did. In 2 numbers they are rcfrajnjng f marriage, largely because of high cost of living. But there other reasons. Women arc longer obliged to look upon l riagc as a necessity, the only q native being a humil!ating dep cnco. On the
 other hand, the
 bachelor, under ,,.e,,,y,.,a
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to cncircle the globe nearly vice at the Equator.
 There are to be emu merated for the rev census just about 24S,- 900 Indians, exclusive of t hose c in Alaska, Probably there are as many tethnologists say) as ever inha bited this country, n ot withstand ing the widely-accepted notion that the copper colored aborigines were formerly far more nu- merous and are now or the verge of extinction.
 About 5000 years ago King David set out to number the people of Israel and Judah, IL took nine months and twenty days to make the count. and the returns showed 1,300.000 wal lant m en who drew the sword" Americas first census, in 1190, was about equal in mag nltUde f h e non,1tation
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Al lhc lcll;
 An Automatic Gan. Punchin& Machine, W hich 1abuIatcs, Clas>ilics ard Keeps a Record of Census Returns, According in Population, tgc>. Color and Religious Beliefs.
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NanUS on me SnOuIdeTS or tHe person ahead, would make a continuous line long enough
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nREPARATIONS are now being
 made for taking, next year, the
 fifteenth dccennia ccnsus of
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the past as a of prcdictiou), 22; citizens of the | States will die of heart disease; 11t,000 will die of cancer; 110.- GOO will die of kidney trouble;
 W ilIiam Nj. Ste" art, Director of the |. x.
 Bureau of
 { cnsus, W ho W i'll Direct lhe Gigantic Task of
 Taking iiIe
 Fifteenth
 Census.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MoLLIE MERRICK.

one Of the wealthiest men hereabouts,
walked to the studios to save carfare
(she'n tell you so quite frankly and
spent what she had on her two
daughters.
When talkies came the minority of
the Irene Riches gave over. They felt
beaten. Such stars as May McAvcy re-
tired to private life and pitied those OF
their group who struggled on. But the
young woman who won out against the
most terrible odds a mother ever faced
wasn't going to be done for merely be-
cause the screen started TO talk. Irene
had tWofold struggle-She had to learn
TO talk, and her wealthy husband seized
on the excuse Of talkies to importune
her to abandon her career.
She did neither. She took vaude-
vile engagement at Long Beach-of ~
places. remember going to see Ler
there. She was playing a sketch-a
rather shabby thing, compounded of
lot OF pathos and sheer sordidness, and
calculated to bring down the gallery,
If not tn front rows. She was COM
pletely dominated by her managers,
who, she felt, knew everything about a
medium of which she knew nothing.
But underneath the artist in her called
out for something more worthy of he
talents. She shipped the sketch when
An bAACA COubId Wd6 OtGT, ana uIlQGT
new management and with a better
vehicle she toured the country, building
up tremendous following wherever she
went and learning the technique of the
stage.
Then she came back to Hollywood
and the talkies clamored for her. She
made so This Is Paris?" with Will
Rogers, and the portrait of that Middle
West wife who so easily assimilated the
Partisan idea of chic, as only an AmeIi-
can woman can, became one of the
excellent roles of talking pictures. From
then on it's been victory for Irene Rich.
She's as slim as a girl of 10. She has
that type of beauty which is ageless.
She speaks freely of Ter daughters, at
tending an Eastern college. She puts
forth no silly alibis of youth, attempts
no debutantish DISCUSSES, Is the most
exquisite and beautiful woman of her
years the world has To offer today, and
because OF these things has a tremen-
dous following. She has passed sue
cessfully from the sill mt films into the
theater and on to the talking picture.
And she believes that in thu Anal
analysis this hybrid art which is the
union of the theater and the silent Aim
VIII revolutionize stage standards, civ-
ing us more simple and definite art
OF the footlights than we have had in
the past
Copyright $780, by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
HOOVER IS ASKED
TO GUST ATTORNEY
Bostonian Charges U. S. Official
Backing Dry Candidate in
G. o. P. Primary.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, September 6-Immediate
removal of Frederick H. Tarl. United
States district attorney here, from
Office was asked of President Hoover
today by william H. Mitchell, chair
man of the Liberal Civic League.
Mitchell charged that Tarr has en-
gagged in partisan activities on behalf
of william M. Butler. dry candidate
for the Republican nomination for the
United States Senate.
Earlier In the day Conrad Croker,
general counsel for the league, re-
quested the State attorney general to
take action against Tarr for alleged
fragrant violation of the Massachu-
sets corrupt practice act" Tarr was
scheduled to make radio address last
night, but was given leave to with
draw from the engagement by the radio
station officials after they had learned
he planned to speak on prohibition and
was not a candidate for office. The
station has a rule that only candidates
for Office may speak on controversial
subject.
Croker charged that advertisements
announcing the scheduled broadcast
did not bear Tarr's signature, which,
he commended, was a violation of the
Law. The attorney general said he
would take no action until Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

the taxi driver, Steve I. Boteler, 1882
Columbia road. he was called to the
Chevy Chase Club shortly before Fri
day midnight, where White got in his
cab and ordered him to drive to Union
Station. He said they arrived q few
minutes too late for the midnight train
on which White had planned to leave
the city. Boteler said he drove White
about the city for more than two hours
and then took him back to the club.
Upon arriving there White Is alleged to
have said he had no money but that
he would get some in his room. The
driver and his passenger entered the
club and went to a room occupied by
Sturtevant.
Boteler was quoted by police as say
ing that both men then told him they
had no money but would pay him by
check and proceeded to make out a
bank draft for So. When he refused
to accept 1t. he said, the men attacked
him, one of them striking him on the
back of the head, knocking him I'M
conscious. When he regained conscious
ness, he said, a club Waterman was at
tending him on the ground outside the
building.
He went to the Bethesda substation
of the Montgomery County Police and
swore out warrants for White and
Sturtevant, who were arrested by Corpl.
Oscar Gather. Both men are about 20
wears old,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
Rv the Assnciated press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 6.-Miss
Gwendlyn NJ. Ballard, 20, Milwaukee,
Wis, respondent over the departure
today of a girl friend for Europe,
leaped to her death from the ninth
floor of the Hotel Knickerbocker.
No one saw her leap, but hotel at
tendants heard the body land on a
one-story building in the rear OF the
hotel.
Police said they found notes in her
room indicating she had contemplated
suicide for some time, one OF them men
tioning the departure today of Miss
Beatrice Turrell, with whom she had
shared the room since Thursday. Miss
Turrell is from Tacoma, Wash.
The floor of the room was Uttered
with cigarette stubs.
Notes Made Public.
The police made public the notes.
One read:
"To the Hotel Manager:
Il am jumping out of the window to
end it all Please notify Beatrice Tur-
rell, who left just little while ago for
the steamship De Grasse, which sails
at S o'clock
Another read:
ITO Bea:
81 love you too much to 60 on without
you. I may be wrong. I don't think
so. No one, not even you, would keep
faith. Be happy. That's what you
want and remember / loved you So.
&c. M. B."
Note Is Left for Uncle.
The third note read:
ITO Robert Noble.
"Stratford Arms Hotel, Milwaukee,
Wis.
Uncle Robert:
Forgive me. Take care OF things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
SUSPECT SURREN DERS
IN NARCOTIC PROBE
Political and Ku Klux Khan Leader
Denounces Arrest as
Frame-Up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind, September 6-Ralph B.
Bradford, Gary political and Ku Klux
Khan leader, charged witt. completely
in a narcotic syndicate, today sur
rendered to Federal officers. A war
rant had been issued for the politicians
arrest yesterday after officers followed
a mail package, said to contain mar
cotics valued at $1,000. to Bradford's
office. His bond was set at $4,000.
Officers said they have kept Bradford
and certain men of New Orleans under
surveillance for several months. Brad
ford denounced the charges against him
as a frameup
Identified often with turbulent affairs
in Lake County politics. Bradford
gained wide prominence two years ago
when he testified before the Reed Sena-
torial Investigating Committee and
charged that wholesale shakedowns of
saloonkeepers had been conducted by
organizations supporting United States
Senator James e. Watson.
He was also the plaintiff in $780,
900 lible suit against Senator Watson,
who he accused of calling him a mo
torious liar and down and outer" The
suit was dismissed In Federal Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
ILL FOR PAST Is YEARS.

Miss Ballard Spent Money i'm Reckless
Manner, Attorney Says.
OSHKOSH, WIS, September 6 (P).--
Miss Gwendolyn M. Ballard of Mil
waukee, who ended her life by Jump
ing from ninth story hotel window in
New York today, was mentally ire
sponsible, in the opinion of John p.
Thompson, Oshkosh attorney.
Thompson revealed that Miss Ballard
had received a part of a $4,000 estate
left to her mother, the late Mrs. Ar6ell
M Ballard, and declared she had used
the money in a spendthrift manner. He
said Miss Ballard had been Ill for the
last fifteen years and had made several
trips West for her health.
Thompson said he did not know the
persons mentioned by her in a note 70
him, and could advance no further In
formation in the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
MINISTERS TOLAY
CONVENTION PLANS
Christian Churches of D. C..
to Be Represented at
Meeting Tomorrow.

An all-day session, with ministers of
Christian churches Of Washington and
its environs and national officers Of the
Disciples Of Christ participating, will
be held tomorrow at the Vermont Ave-
nue. Christian Church, in preparation
for the conventions scheduled to be
held here october 1923, inclusive.
Ministers of Washington Christian
churches and those of nearby Vir-
Rinia and Maryland will meet at lunch
con and afternoon conferences, while
in the evening there will be rally
of all committee members, numbering
about 400. The convention choir OF
anproximately 500 ioiceS, under the
direction of w. e. Braithwatte. will
render special music. Reports OF prog
ress and a general outline of the pro-
gram already arranged Tor me con-
ventions will be disclosed.
Oficers to Be Chosen.
National officers to be present in
cllde DIR. ]. M. Bader OF Indianapolis
md. chairman of the Program Com
,oittee of the world convention, and
DIR. H. C. Armstrong, chairman CT the
Committee on Program and Arrange
rnents of the international convention
DIR. Graham Frank of Dallas, Tex,
secretary of the international conven-
ton. and Rev. Elmer Cole OF south
Rend Ind. are also expected to be
present.
owing to the large attendance ex-
pected at the convention, it is thought
that both the Washington Auditorium
and the new D. A. r. Hall will be re-
u,lired to accommodate those attending.
Meetings will be held at the two halls
simultaneously, with different speakers.
In addition to the international and
World Conventions Youths Conven-
ton will be held at the Vermont Avenue
Church, october 1919.
Service of Communion.
The two main conventions will be
brought together at a communion
service on Sunday afternoon, October
10. Representatives of 38 nations
where there are Churches of Christ,
are expected to answer at the roll call
that evening. An Australian delega-
ton was to sail from Sydney, Australia,
Yesterday. while another delegation
from the same country is now due in
New York, having sailed from Europe
some DAYS ago. The Australian churches
ane sending an exhibit to be displayed
at the Auditorium. First hand know
ledge of the religious situation in Russia
is to be brought by two representatives
Of Christianity in that country.
r. A. Long, well known lumberman
of Kansas City, who built a city in
almost day" in the great Northwest,
will deliver the presidential address of
the International Convention, Tuesday
evening, October II.
Three hundred washington women
have been fighting the drought to grow
flowers for the convention decorations.
Many of the churches in the Chesa-
peake area will observe next Sunday as
q pre-registration day.