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TN£ OLD <STYL£ TABI/lATO.fI W/TH DMLS THAT
REqumeo TO BE /?E<SCT GY HAND
BOR" the thirteenth time in
ltis 130-year career In
cle Sam is getting ready
to count noses. Oensus
taking will occupy all
his energies In 1910, but
even to-day he is getting
ready for that Herculean
task. It is Hie biggest
thing the raited States
does once in every ten
years, but today the sys
tem for its accomplishment has no
peers anywhere in the world.
The r> 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. The establishment of a per
manent bureau will also bring about the perfection
of more accurate, faster and far better Ideas at
later dates, Each decade will see changes for the
best, it is declared by those in power at Wash
ing;ton.
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