PAGE SIX. COMPLETING PREPARA- TIONS FOR TAKING OF THE CENSUS IN 1940 Harrisburg.—Preparations are near-| ing completion for the nation’s most monumental and painstaking task, the 1940 census of population and business which will open in Pennsylvania and the rest of the nation within a few months. District census supervisors will op-| er. offices in Pennsylvania, which will | be divided into approximately 34 cen- sus districts, late next month or early | in January. They will then employ | their staffs. Tests will be given in the local offices to determine the qualifi- | cations of applicants, all of ‘whom, up- | on employment, will come under the provisions of the Hatch law, forbid- ding political activity. The decennial census will open on | January 2nd with a census of business | manufacturing, mines and quarries. It will require about six months. Census- es of population ,agriculture and hous- ing will start on April 1st and will be | completed in approximately one mon- | th. Starting January 2nd, each place of | business and each manufacturing | plant, mine and quarry in Pennsylva- | nia will be visited by census enumera- | tors equipped with schedule forms, | who will obtain necessary reports. All| replies will be held strictly confiden tial. | It was estimated that in Pennsylva- nia the enumerators would visit ap-| proximately 13,000 manufacturing es- | tablishments, employing almost 1,000,- | 000 workers and paying more than | $1,000,000,000 annually in wages and salaries. The annual value of their producis was estimated at approxima- tely $4,250,000,000. The census enumerators will also visit in Pennsylvania approximately 130,000 retail stores, whose total sales was estimated at $2,491,000,000 as of the last business census of 1935. Approximately 10,500 wholesale es- lablishments in Pennsylvania whose annual sales totalled an estimated $2.- 741,012,000, will also be visited. Also to be visited by enumerators in Pennsylvania will be approximately 41,000 service establishments, such as barber shops, employment agencies, shoe repair shops, funeral directors, etc. whose annual receipts in 1935 were estimated at $131,399,000, and 6,297 con- struction firms. The information collected in the business census will be presented by kinds of business for each city or town in Pennsylvania of more than 2,500 population. With population increases down, the 1940 population census therefore concern itself with working status, hours worked and unemploy- ment. It will for the first time seek information on the amount of wages or salary for the past 12 months. The question illiteracy will be eliminated because illiteracy in the United Sta- tes has become almost a negative Meat-Eater | | | | | | slowed A vicious plant is this meat-eating Venus fly-trap, found enly in North Carolina bogs. Here an innocent bee .unknowingly .approaches .his doom. Six tiny hairs inside the doubled leaf act as triggers when disturbed, causing the leaves to come together, thus trapping its prey. Here is poor Bernard Bee after lighting inside the fly-trap and dis- turbing its ‘“‘triggers.”” The leaves fold swiftly together, imprisoning the victim with stiff bristles. This action causes digestive juices to flow, and the hapless bee will be nothing more than a skeleton in a few hours. He will have been de- voured by the plant. An enigma, the Venus fly trap shows the transi- tion between plant and animal life. Gardeners have had very little sue- cess growing the plant in other en- vironments. quantity except among the aged, cen- sus bureau officials said, adding that they felt the 1940 census should in- clude the gathering of information which would throw light on internal social and economic problems, The great change that has occurred in agriculture in the last decade will be recorded by the farm census which will enumerate important shifts of the various crops and classes of livestock. mi em— . AMERICAN INDUSTRY AGAIN IS OPERATING IN HIGHEST OF GEARS The Federal Reserve Board announ- ced this week that American industry was rolling out products at the fast- est pace since 1929 and probably will continue at as rapid a gait until the end of next year at least. At the same time Secretary of Com- | merce Hopkins said wholesale trade during the first nine months of the year aggregated $15,000,000,000, an in- crease of $1,000,000,000 over the cor- responding period of 1938. Figures from the Bureau of Domes- tic and Foreign Commerce showed that half the wholesale gain was account- | ed for in July, August and Septem- ber. The reserve boare tempered its op- timism with the comment that “unless there is considerable increase in the | consumption of goods the accumula- | tion of inventories which is now un- | | der way is likely to reach substantial | proportions.” This meant that, unless people and | business buy and use up newly pro- | duced goods faster than they now are | doing, factories soon might reach the | point of shutting down temporarily to get rid of all their present stocks. However moderate increases in re- tail sales and plant expansion togeth- er with continued active residential construction, also were reported. SUPERVISORS PLAN FOUR MAJOR CONCERT EVENTS IN COUNTY Four major musical events to be given by Cambria county grade and high school students will be presented, | beginning December 1, under the aus- pices of the Cambria County Music Supervisors Association, William S. Smathers, president of the organiza- tion and supervisor of music in the Ebensburg-Cambria township High School, said last week. Last May the students presented a music festival and an all county band concert in the Ebesburg Cambria high school auditorium. In addition to these two events the supervisors this Ar also will present an all county orches- tra and an all county chorus. THE UNION PRESS-COURIER, The first event the all county mus- ty chorus probably will be held at| ic festival, will be held at 7:30 o'clock Portage. on the evenings of Dec. 1 and 2 and the Ebensburg Cambria high school. While no definite dates have been set for the other events the all county band concert to be held at the Frank- | large list of entries is expected as lin High School, the all county or- chestra program will be staged in the Ferndale high school and the all coun- | Johnstown and Nanty-Glo. | Entries are to be received by D, L.| Auchenbaugh, assistant county super- | intendent of schools, who is advisor to the music supervisors group. A the program will include students of| all schools with the exceptions of ELECTRIC RANGE OWNERS HEAR PRAISE LIKE THIS . . . “Gosh. mom. you re a swell cook!” Mav. 1938552 FAVORITE FOODS LOOK BETTER, TASTE BETTER Count on better cooking results with a new automatic Electric Range. Vegetables retain natural colors, healthful minerals. Soups and stews have new tang and flavor. Roasts are juicier and more tender. Pies and cakes come out perfectly every time. If you want to keep your home up-to-date, by all means consider Electric Cooking. 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