Evening star., 1942-05-24

On June 1, a week from tomor-
row, each of some 100000 persons
working In or near the District will
be given a QUESTIONABLE card to
do his part in the Public Utilities
Commissions mass transportation
survey. BY this survey it is hoped
to assemble facts as basis for the
Districts S future transportation serv-
ice.
A picture of the card you will re-
ceive appears on this page. It's spe-
ciflc aim is to learn where you live
and how you get to work. So that
your report and all others will be on
a uniform basis, the maps on this
page have been prepared for the
Public Utilities Commission by The
Star. In order to fill out your ques-
tionnaire card, it will be necessary
to find on the proper map the num-
ber Of the area where you live.
Here Is the way the survey will
work:
Procedure With Cards.
You will receive your card at your
place of employment, not at your
residence. Personnel officers of Gov
ernment and private establishments
will be in charge of distributing the
cards and instructing employees in
how to fill them out. When dis
tributed, they are to be made out
Immediately and returned to per-
sonnel officers. Employees who will
be absent from work on June l
are asked to give to fellow employe
their addresses, residence areas and
most frequent modes of transporta-
ton so a card can be made out for
them.
1t will be noted from a study of
the card that no space is provided
to record the name or address of
your place of business. This is un-
necessary because this information
will be gathered by checking the
locations of the business establish
ments from which the cards are
returned to the Public Utilities Com
mission.
Assume you have your card and
study the form reproduced on this
page. The first thing to do would
be to write your name on the back
Of the card.
On the extreme left-hand border
reading from bottom to top, is
place where, if you are in private
employment, you are to fill in the
time of day or night when you re-
port to work and the time of day or
night when you finish work If you
are Government employe you need
not fill in this blank because the
working hours of Government agen-
cies are to be ascertained by the
P. U. c. from the agencies them
selves.
Note Instructions Carefully.
Next on the card are the instruc-
tions, which should be carefully
noted. 1t is important that the card
be filled in with a pencil containing
No. lead because some of the data
is to be taken of the cards by mark
sensing" machines which are acti-
waited by impulses received as sensi-
tive brushes pass over the pencil
marks. These impulses cause code
holes to be punched in the cards
where they are blocked in"
Beneath the instructions is
space for your street address, with
an extra line for your city post office
If you live in Maryland or Virginia.
Next: Find the number OF your
residence area from maps on this
page If you live in Prince Georges
County or in a Maryland or Vlr-
ginia area not on this map, subse-
quent maps enabling you to find
your residence area will be published
in The Star tomorrow. After you
have found the number of your
residence area, write this number
in the square space in the top right
center of the card.
Now: Instruction No. tells how
to block in" your residence area
number and underneath the in
struction are three examples, show
ing how to block in" your card if
your residence area is 8, 20, or 1856.
For purposes of this survey all
numbers have to be in three digits.
Hence 8 becomes 008; % becomes
O29. The blocks under Examples"