: I III j^^^ c/y//Y ason is because America now has a permanent census bureau, one which is always making prepara tions for the next decade's count. The country's solons will go down Into the public treasury this winter for $i ! .000,000 for the 1010 census, and uf that sum, $1,500,000 is for maintainence of a permanent bu reau. Speaking in smaller figures, it costs the United States government 17 rents for counting each and every man. woman, boy and girl once in ten years, it costs just as much to count John I). Rockefeller as it does the lone immigrant from Norway who arrives at New York with $2:! as a nucleus for his prospective for tune. It Is estimated that the population of (his country has increased 20 per cent, since the last census was taken in 1900 and according to con servative guesses by men who are qualified to know, the number of persons should total in the neighbor hood of 90,000,000. As u conse quence siatisticians have arrived at the decision that in 1920 the popula tion will touch the 100,000,000 mark. The census of 1910 is to cost the people little more than that of 1900 for the reason that machines, which are wonderful in their makeup, have been invented by members of the census bureau and these do far greater work than the old style counting devices in use when the job was started nine years ago. There are two styles of machines—one is the card punching de.vice and the other, the tabulator. The first punches the holes in the census cards, which are arranged much as in the conventional card index. The wonderful tabulating machine then takes the pasteboards and solely by mechan ical means adds, classifies, and makes up totals from the cards, which pass through the device faster than the eye can follow them. Both ma chines are essential and each is dependent upon the other for success. The new card punching machine, which is a great improvement upon the old system, is an electrical contrivance. Hitherto the operator was compelled to play upon it like a typist, but to-day all that is necessary is to touch the key desired, press a lever and the machine keeps on punching cards as long as tlie power is kept on. The old hand puncher was capable of sending out 900 cards each day while the new automaton attains a sprecl of",500 and saves the operators' nerves. Another feature of these new machines is that the United States will soon know, after the cards have been turned in by the great army of statis tics-gatherers, just where it stands on population. Classification is also a great feature, divisions being made of whites, blacks, and other races, along with females, males, natives, foreigners, married and single persons. One hundred and fifty of these new machines are in the process of construction for the census taking of 1910. Three thousand persons will do the clerical work in the government offices at Washington. So you see there is something to this census taking business. Director North of the census declares that as soon as the incoming cards are punched he will be able to give to the country the total. The tabulating machines are now a closely guarded secret in a little machine shop at the census bureau offices in Washington and at last accounts the experts at work upon it were perfecting the details of its construction, it is a government invention and no one person gets the credit for it, but it will revolutionize the business of counting noses. In other years Uncle Sam's work of taking a snap shot of his people was like a man in the hay aiid feed business jumping into a printing shop CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1909. and trying to make good. The conditions each ten years were so much dif ferent from those of the decade previous that even though the same persons wore given the care of the offices connected therewith, they found themselves at sea within a few days. Now, how ever, the permanent census bureau makes the counting of the population a business for all time with Uncle Sam and this gigantic job will be given the attention of his weather eye from day today, though the fruits of the work will be thrust into the public gaze only once in ten years. Men who are experts on taking the census of countries declare that the system by which the government will take the count in 1910 is admit tedly a model which the whole world should fol low, if it would be as up-to-date as this corner. Another project is on foot to-day which will great ly facilitate this census program. That is the erection of a permanent home for the population counters. If congress allows Director North to erect such an edifice, it will be a specially con structed statistics manufacturing plant. In a communication to congress Director North sets forth his plans. He plans to expend the sum of $675,000 for the purchase of a site and for the six story fireproof building upon which he is laying his program. This, he says, will provide ample accommodations for the 3,000 persons who are engaged in this work from year to year. To-day, if you were to visit Washington, and wished lo see the census bureau, you would be led to a one-story brick structure which was erected for the tabulation of statistics in 1900. One great space problem which the government faces is the storing of census reports and this took up just about all the room of the old struc ture, so that most of the clerks and other help had to be accommodated elsewhere. It was re cently estimated that it would licuse just about one-fourth of the clerks needed for the census next year. The great army of house-to-house canvassers who will count you and your family in 1910 are not as yet even estimated by Director North, but it is recorded that one mat. counts only about 10,000 persons, many of them counting IPSS in the sniall space of time allotted to the tabulation. Thousands upon thousands ol' extra men will be placed upon the payroll of the United States government next summer and shortly afterward this great counting process will be commenced. After the New Year the greatest problem which Direo tor North faced was of getting enough money from congress to fully guarantee a complete count, which would fully set forth all that statisticians wished to know. The census budget was up before congress last year, but was turned over to the 1908-09 national legislature. Lawmakers much regret that whereas the constitution of the United States re quires that each ten years there be a complete, satisfactory census of all the souls in the country, no adequate plans were made when the republic was planted on this side of the Atlantic. For that reason every decade saw a hurry and scurry to count the population, groat confusion, distress in some sections and general prevalence of conditions bordering on chaos. So, for more than a century it continued thus each year, for the pre ceding administration, it is stated, did not care about giving the next successful party anything up on which the caption of "spoils" might be hung, .it is declared. So nobody went after a real census system very strongly. Rut. modern ideas have been injected into the counting process and the gigantic move for a per manent bureau having succeeded, we are now to have a census which will enumerate, speedily, ac curately and give results to the people in the shortest possible time. 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