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COUNTING UNCLE
SAM'S BIG FAMILY
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This Is the Year When the Census;
Mar. Makes Round of the I
Country. Question He Will Ask,
and Why.
By CALEB JOHNSON
TT?i?Io Sn>n will hpfrin to count his
nephews and nieces on the first of
April. 1930, and this year he is going
to find out a lot mote about
them than has been known before.
Some time during the month of
April an enumerator of the United
States Census Bureau will call at
every dwelling in the nation and
ask the head of the family twenty-,
four questions. Some of them might!
be considered impertinent if asked 1
by a stranger, or even by a neigh- j
hov, but the census enumerators arc j
under oath r.ot to disclose any facts
learned by them except in their of-j
ficial reports. And those reports are;
not open anywhere to public inspection.
Like the figures in vou.r income
lax return, they are official secrets
which prying gossips have no access
to. Uncle Sam is concerned, for census
purposes, only with totals and
averages and not at ail with individuals.
But a clear picture of the
people of the United States as a
whole can be obtained only by getting
tll#J facts ahiillt each irwlivi?l>i:i1
inhabitant, to start with.
For example, one of the things]
which it is important to know, besides
the number of persons in the
United States, is the average age
of our people, it is higher 01 lower
than it was when the last census was
taken, ten years ago, and how much?
This average age has been increasing
steadily. But if the census of
1030 should show a decline in the
average age. it would be a danger
signal, a warning to speed up public
health measures, a call to investigate
the cause and apply al' of the
resources of sanitary science toward .
improving and guarding the general
health.
So don't think it is impertinence
when the census taker asks your age!
Uncle Sam wants to know, not your
individual age, hut the average age
of aii of trie, peopie.
Another question the enumerators
will ask is "Who is the head of the
family?" That doesn't, mean what it
sounds like. Uncle San: isn't interested
as to whether the wife wears
the breeches or not, but does want
to know how many men are dependent
upon the earnings of their children,
how many women are selfsupporting.
The head of the family,
irbin the census point of view, is theone
who earns the money.
Whether you live on a farm or iuj
a town. whether you are white, blark, [
red or yellow, male or female, married
or unmarried, able to read and
write, where you were born and
where your parents were born, when
you came to America if you are an
immigrant, what your native ian-j
guage was and whether you can j
speak English are questions the rea-j
sons for which are clear enough. On j
the totals compiled from these answers
depends, among other things,
the number of persons from your
native country who can be admitted
to the United States in the next ten
years.
Everybody who is employed will
be asked to give his trade or occupa-J
tion and the particular industry in
which he or she works, or if working
on his own account or as an employer,
to say so. But a question on that
line this year will be: *'Are you employed
now?" That is as of the first
of April. There will be for the first
time an accurate reccrd of unemployment,
figures on which heretofore
have been largely estimates.
Another new question will be
whether you own your home. In a
general way the proportion of home j
owners has been estimated in the
past, but nobody has ever had exact
figures. The figures have decided
bp^l'inrr All the. ? rr?-nrv^<-^-f I
c ... j/v. wi.ifc ^aujcti Ui |
our national prosperity. And if you1
do not own your home, the census
man wiii ask you 'now much rent
you pay. That is another useful index
of the size of the national bankroll.
Taking the two together, the Government
will be able to toll us whether
home ownership is on the increase,
whether thre is a demand for more
individually-owned dwellings, and
those facts ate a hearing on the i
lumbei industry and the production I
of all other building supplies, as well!
as on the market for all sorts of i
household equipment and furnishings.
Another new census question is
whether you own a radio set. Nothing
could better illustrate the speed with
which new inventions take hold, once
they strike the public fancy. Ten
years ago, when the census of 1920
was taken, there wasn't a radio set
in the world except experimental
ones; there was no such thing as
broadcasting; nobody but a few experts
knew the difference between
heterodyne and a screen-grid, if any.
Mot.- loo!: =t the blamed thing! There
are so many receiving sets in the
United States that Uncle Sam is going
to count 'em, to find out how
many of his family he can talk to
at once.
For the first time, the census taker
will ask how old you were at your
first marriage. The information will
be more important ten years from
- :: now than it is now, because the sec'
ond set of answers to it, , in 1940;
will disclose whether the average age
of marriage is getting older or
: younger. Our grandparents married
in their teens, as a rule; today 25
is nearer the average age. in all
probability. Will the young folks of
the next ten years cgnticue to postpone
morriage or will they revert to
the youthful marriages of their ancestors?
You will be asked whether you
have attended school of college since
last September. The figures for education
have been climbing steadily
ever since the first census was taken.
Beyond question they are stiii
climbing, but how fast?
And as a final question every one
of Uncle Sam's nephews will be
asked whether he has served as ai
soldier, sailor or marine in any war
in which his country was involved.
We will know for the first time just
how many veterans of each war are
sti'l living. And that will help to
estimate future demands on taxpay-j
ers for pensions.
The Census is tl ?- oldest of all our
Federal bureaus, as old as Congress
and the Presidential office and the
judiciary, for it was set up in the
Constitution itself, which requires
that the inhabitants be counted every j
ten years. The original purpose was j
to find out how many lived in each!
state in order to apportion members '
of Congress among the states. That
is still one of the purposes, though j
Congress itself has been dilatory in j
reapportioning its membership in!
proportion to population.
The first Census, taken in 1790,
showed fewer than four million inhabitants
in the new nation; 3.929.214.
to be exact. We passed the 25
million mark between 1850 and lSOO;
by 1880 we had almost exactly 50
millon, and forty years later, in 1920,1
we had doubled that figure with 105,710,020
persons living: in Continental
United States. The Census Bureau
experts have made estimates from
year to year of the increase since
that time, and give it as their belief
that enumeration of 1980 will show!
between 121 and 122 million nephews
and nieces of Uncle Sahi.
FAMEOFSARGON
SPREADING OVER j
ENTIRE WORLDl
People of This Country Sending Fa-J
moui Medicine to Relatives and I
Friends in England, Scotland, Ireland,
France, Canal Zone, NorWay,
Sweden, Cuba and Ma ny Other
Distant Lands.
Lf you had found a medicine that
\yas <>i* such benefit to you that you
would go to the trouble of sending it
to relatives and friends and distant
countries, you would have to be convinced
in your own mind that it possessed
real merit, wouldn't you;
That's just what thousands of people
throughout the United States
have been doing with Sargon.
From all over America and wherever
Sargon has heen introduced,
thousands of letters have been received
from grateful users telling of
the gratifying results that have been
accomplished by this celebrated medicine.
THOUSANDS EXPRESS GRATITUDE
Gn November 27th, a letter dated
November 23rd, was received at the
Sargon offices advertising that in one
week one drug firm alone had received
orders for Sargon to be
shipped fo Cavite, Philippine Islands;
Coca-Solo, Canal Zone; Belebrook,
Ireland; and Paris, France. J
Only recently a well-known resident
or" Denver, Colorado, who hadj
wc?.-u jcatweu t'j neaiLn oy jargon,
sent a full treatment to London. England.
to his sister, who is the wife
of an executive of one of the greatest
retail drug firms in the British
Empire.
During the past month there appeared
in the Toronto papers the
statement of a well-known World
War veteran whose health had been
greatly impaired while in the service,
who stated among other things, that
he owed his restoration to health to
two bottles of Sargon sent him by a
friend in Minneapolis.
LETTERS RECEIVED FROM
THE NORTHWEST
From the Northwest, many letters
of this kind have been received advising
that users of Sargon are sending
it to relatives back in their old
countries of Norway and Sweden.
Many such letters and endorsements
have been received lrujii iiieii
of prominence, including former
governors, business anfL.professional
men, mayors, state and county officials,
and even ministers of the Gos
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imve aeemea it tneir auty to come
forward and tell what Saigon has
done for them.
These are only a few of thousands
of such cases and not a day nor a
week passes that does not bring huna
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UiCUi VI SUIWltlCUtS. ftvm tlK!
concerning the good this medicine is
doing, and reciting case after case
that would convince the most skeptical.
Sargon's fame is built on actual
results?not empty promises, and
only those who have put it to the
test know its real powers.
Sargon's aim is not mere temporary
relief, but new and abundant
health. No wonder it is now called
the medicine with a million tnends.
Boone Drug Company, Agents.
?A d verti sement.
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVI
America's Hcalthu
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mm^K Wj Florence
Smock. 17, of Lake County
17. cf Morgan .County, Jndiana. who we
in America at the National Health Co
Exposition in Chicago.
HENS PROPERLY HOUSED
PAY BEST PROFITS
Housing the hens in a comfortable j
and healthy place may not seem to;
be of so much importance but it of-1
ten means the difference between;
average returns and excellent re-1
turns. i :
"Those who have not. remodeled
the old poultry house or built a new 1
one. may secure pb?.ns tor a poultry j :
house free of charge from tl.e poul- j
try department at State College."1
says \V. F. Armstrong:^ associate!
poultry man. "Many irrowers who ;
wrili- to us for information seem to
think that housing means merely a
protection from rain or sn? v an 1 has
little effect upon results. Few thiners: >
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in the poultry business are of more
importance or have a greater influence
upon the production of eggs."
At first, says Mr. Armstrong, one
must give consideration to the location.
A southern slope that is well
drained will provide a uniform terr.oerature
throughout the vear Jcj?.??y>-.1
tng the house warmer in winter and
cooler in summer. The front of the
house. or open part, should also face
southward, thus providing additional
protection from cold winds in winter.
A house not having this advantage
interferes with the production
and health of the birds, especially
the more sensitive breeds such as
the Leghorns. It is also best to have I
added protection in a curtain to close j
or partially close the opening depend-)
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The second principle is to make
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A house 20 feet- deep will hold its} di
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in a cold house and having their!
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from both front and back. Poorly e<
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MORRISON REFUSES
Former Governor Morrison has ar^unced
that he will not he a candate
for Congress from the Ninth
istrict and indicated he might not
ren be a candidate for the Senate
at now held by Lee S. Overman, of
ilisbury.
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