Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1940 Page: 3 of 8
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CENSUS . - - 133,000*00
Within the next five or six
weeks the Federal Census tak-
er will call at your home and
ask you a lot of personal ques-
tions which he or she will
write down in a big loose-leaf
portfolio. There are 160,000
young men and women who
are being trained now to
tackle the job of counting all
the people of the United States
one by one.
Thia is done every ten
years. It is required by the
Federal Constitution.
The original purpose was to
find out how many people
there are in each state, so that
the number of Representatives
in Congress conld be appor-
tioned to population. But a
great variety of other informa-
tion about all the people is
now required and the census
takers have the job of asking
many questions which some
people regard as impertinent.
So far as the actual count
goes the Census Office already
knows within a few hundred
at any time how many people
there are in the nation. Accu-
rate records of births and
deaths, immigration and emi-
gration, show that we have
now just short of 133,000,000
men, women and children,
about 11,000,000 more than in
1930.
AGE .... confidential
The moat important question
the census taker will ask is the
age as well as the name of ev-
ery member of the family. His
instructions"'are,' if a woman
gives an age which is obvious-
ly several years too young eith-
er to guess at the correct figure
or ask a neighbor or relative.
Since all answers given to the
census man ere strictly confi-
dential, and he stands a
chance of going to jail if he
tells anybody, the best policy
is to tell your correct age.
Nobody in the Census Office
is permitted to disclose any
facts about an; individual
from the Census record, ex-
cept by an order from a Court
or on the request of the indi-
vidual concerned. After seven,
ty years the records are open
for public inspection, by which
time few people care who
knows their age.
Every day the Census Office
receives hundreds of letters
from elderly people who want
to qualify for old-age benefits
or pensions and do not know
just how old they are. The
Census records are accepted
at legal evidence and thou-
sands of old people have been
enabled to qualify for pensions
in this way.
she doesn’t count, nor does the
baby horn on April 8 or any
later date. The commonest
mistake made by people tell-
ing who constitute the family,
they told me at the Census Of-
fice, is to forget to mention the
newest baby, perhaps still un-
named.
Some questions will be ask-
ed of only one family out of ev-
ery twenty, to give a 5 per cent
cross-section of facts about
such things as electrification
of houses and the like.
PENALTIES. .... tad
If you don’t answer all of
the Census-taker’s questions
Uncle Sam can, under the law,
fine you 3300 of send you to
jail for a year. I couldn’t find
out in Washington that any-
body had ever been fined or
imprisoned, but sometimes the
Census man has had to go back
with a Deputy U. S. Marshal to
get answers from stubborn peo-
ple, or those who did not under-
stand the purpose of the call.
In regions with a large for-
eign language population Cen-
sus-takers who can speak those
languages are usually employ-
ed. The Government has Inter-
preters ready to be sent out
with the enumerators where
language difficulties are en-
countered.
If for any reason anyone does
not want to give the Census
man his or her real name and
age and other personal facts,
the enumerator will furnish a
blank form which can be filled
out and mailed to the District
Supervisor of the Census, under
seal of secrecy. It is a mis-
demeanor, under the law, to
look over the Census man’s
should* ’ to see what he has
written about your neighbors,
but it might happen.
UNO SIDES TO EftHY
QUESTION
(By LYTLE HULL)
aaessK sues*———asetees
PROAM ERIC ANGANDA
ALASKA .... difficult
The Census-taking begins on
Monday, April 2nd, and is
supposed to be finished in two
weeks, for Continental United
States. More time is given for
the island possessions, and
Alaska takes more time than
any other part of the Nation.
The Census enumerators for
Alaska are mostly Government
sehool teachers and mission-
aries. They were appointed
last Fall and started their
count in October. Their work
stopped for the most part
when the Winter freeze set in,
and will begin again when the
ice breaks up. They bave un-
til July to finish.
Enumerators receive a basic
compensation of two cents a
name, in thickly populated
sections. But they get extra
pay and expense money where
they have to travel long dis-
tances between families. Every
square mile of the United
States has been mapped by
Census Office geographers into
districts, each of which con
tains as nearly as possible the
same number of people as
each other. Some districts take
in only two city blocks, others
cover several townships or
whole county.
QUESTIONS . . eanunga
Among the questions the
Census taker will ask you ia
whether you own your home
or pay rent, and bow much.
Uncle Sam wants that inform-
ation to help in solving the
housing problem. You will be
asked whether voor home is
wired for electricity, whether
you have any roomers or
boarders and what their
names are.
Every member of the house-
hold who is employed will
have to tell what wages or
salary he or she gets; every
head of a household will be
asked how much money he
earned last year and what oth-
er income he received.
The names and ages of ev-
erybody who was alive on
April 1 must be reported. If
Grandmother died March SI
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Athlete’s Foot, Eczema, 'Itch,
Ringworm or sore aching feet
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and $1.00.
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regularly eliminate excess
acids and other waste. Get a
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kidney evacuant, from any
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This column believes in
propaganda—provided it is
proamericanganda. It is not an
admirer of those "Americans”
who seem anxious to sacrifice
their own country to save the
British Empire, or to Nazlfy
Uncle Sam, or to defend the
vast domains of France or to
uphold the bloody sway of
Gentle Joe Stalin and his gang
of cutthroats. It despises those
who subtlely attempt to turn
their own countrymen against
American men and women
who love America and seek to
save it from destruction in Eu-
rope’s cursed wars.
If this war is to be fought to
a finish, this column prefers to
see the Allies win, not only
from feelings of sentiment
and because it hates Socialism
and autocratic dictator forms
of government, but principally
for the purely selfish reason
that it believes the age old
British supremacy in Europe is
more to the advantage of
America than would be Ger-
man supremacy over that ever
bloody map.
However, this column goes
on record as preferring to see
the entire Eastern Hemisphere,
including Hitler,.. Winston
Churchill, Butch Stalin and La
Belle France, disappear into
thin powder-tainted air rather
than have this country wreck
itself in the centuries-old war
which our ancestors came to
the Western Hemisphere, one
two, or three hundred years
ago, just to get away from.
The President’s move to
bring about peace in Europe
and security at home—is a
dirty trick on certain writers,
..lecturers, college professors,
and on the editors of a few
publications, whose motives
are not always very cleverly
concealed. If the war kept
on long enough these Passion-
ate Patriots might have the
doubtful pleasure of writing
and spouting soul stirring
stanzas about our boys rushing
bravely "into the jaws of
death” and "back from the
mouth of Hell” on the “glori-
ous battlefields of Europe.’’
Yes, it’s a mean trick—but the
President doesn't seem to, care.
He is out to do business and
you’ve got to admit that when
he puts his nose to the grind-
stone the sparks just naturally
fly. He has two powerful
weapons, so powerful in fact,
that the threat to use one or
the other SHOULD stop the
war and the actual use of one
or the other WOULD stop the
war.
Mr. Hitler may be a big guy
at home at this moment. He
probably thinks he can win
this war and he might be a bit
sassy if the President should
approach him on any but a
"German Peace.” The news
would indicate that he wents
peace badly and is willing to
make a big concessions. But
this may be just some more
wishful thinking. However, if
he were informed that the
United States would drop her
neutrality and turn her full
producing and transporting
capacity over to the Allies—
he would doubtless discover
that the Germans could
“breathe” in their present
cramped quarters and would
decide to postpone his dreams
of fresh air to some future
date.
Winston Churchill is also a
big guy, not only in the opin-
ion of his fellow countrymen
but in his own estimation. He
admits that he is going to mash
Germany out of shape for all
times (or at least for the cus-
tomary 20 years) even if
few neutrals including Uncle
Sam also get mashed during
this operation. England is the
only thing which matters to
him- But strange as it may
seem, even Winston Chnrchill
needs arms, food, oil and air-
planes to tick Adolf and his
goose-steppers, and if the Al-
lies were informed that Amer-
ica considered the continua-
tion of this war too certain a
menace to her existence as a
freemen’s democracy and must
stop it at any cost — even to
closing oar ports to all bellig-
erents—the allies would soon
lose interest in continuing this
far-too-dangerous installment.
Even in peace times the
United States is a very impor-
tant factor in international af-
fairs, but under the present
circumstances she holds the
whip hand over the destinies
of the world—just as she did
in 1917. If—as some believe
—our government has a
"working understanding” with
other powerful neutrals such
as Italy, the Vatican and our
neighbors in the great “bread-
basket” of South America—it
would be almost suicide for
the fighting politicians of Eu-
rope to resist the President’s
demand for at least an attempt
to bring about peace.
War in Europe is not going
to end with this one. This
same war for ’’breathing
space” and for “empire” has
been going on since the dawn
of history,and will continue
until the people take from
their governments, and unto
themselves, the power to
make wars • When govern-
ments lose this privilege, they
will forfeit the principal in-
strument with which they play
"power polities”—that horri-
ble system which has been
'he promoter of practically all
war.
But if the President can
bring about peace now, our
country will before long be-
gin to realize what a close
shave it has had, and will be
in just that much better posi-
tion to protect itself and its
principles and its neutrality—
from propagandists at home
and abroad—when the next
great blood bath occurs in Eu-
rope.
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MIKE BYRN W. F. CORRY
Timpsoo, Tens
Mrs. John Worthington, of
Trnro, Cape Cod, Mass., Is the
woman who brought fish nets
into the Fiifth Avenue and all
other smart shops in the coun-
try. In her husband’s ware-
house one day she saw some
new white fish net and imme-
diately visualized its useful
uess for home decorations and
fashions.
She made all sorts of things
out of the netting, eventually,
turbans, belts, and curtains,
and then began experimenting
with dyes, trying to copy the
colors that are typical of the
Cape. When the idea took
in the fashion world she en-
listed the help of the fisher-
man’s wives.
* * •
Miss Betthia Stuart, who is
‘Princess White Heron” of the
A raws tribe of New Zealand
and "Princess Pretty Ante-
lope” of the Blackfoot In-
dians, of the UnitedStates, says
that the native women of her
land surpass women of all oth-
er lands in grace and poise.
Miss Stuart herself is the pic-
ture of grace when she dances
the poi dances and sings.
She says that every native
mother in New Zealand
teaches her little girl to twist
and push the poi ball, first
with one hand and then with
the other, in all directions—
out, sideways, and up—and
the body sways in rhythm with
every movement and the feet
tap time.
Taisia Stadnichenko is a ge
ologist for the Unied States
Geological Survey. Her work
is on the origin, constitution
and classification of coal and
carbonaceous sediments. She
has visited any number of coal
mines and during the World
War she was invited to visit
the fluorite mine in Mongolia.
Senora Ana Rosa de Marti-
nez Guerrero, president of the
Argentine Union of Women,
has been elected chairman
the Inter-American Commia-
sionofWomen. The union is
engaged in working for wom-
en’s civil and political rights.
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DRUERY MeCAULEt
Mrs. Savannah Barrett Butt,
at the age of sixty-five, runs
smithy in the cellar of her
home in Baltimore, and with
the aid of two assistiants turns
ont miniature horseshoes,
knockers and other metal ob-
jects.
• • •
Marie Grott heads the Indi-
ana State Criminal Investiga
tion Bureau. She started
a clerk in the identification
office.
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Author of "How to Win
Friends and Influence
People”
HAPPINESS
1 know a woman who in-
herited millions from her hus-
band. She told me the other
day what she ate for breakfast
third of a glass of milk,
hot water, three lumps of
sugar and too r crackers. Some-
times, insteac of crackers, she
has a dish of string beans or
cauliflower.
For lunch, she has usually
vegetable or fruit salad, with
cream cheese and a boiled egg,
or two sliees of cold meat. Oc-
casionally, she has some can-
ned fruit. For dinner, the has
approximately Hie same kind
and amount of food that she
has for breakfast or lunch.
This woman eame to New
York yearn ago to make her
living as an artist In those
days, she had to watch every
penny. Yet now that she has
millions she rats no more food
and no better food than she
did when she was poor.
Stingy? Oh no, not that. She
wants to keep her figure. And
she doesn’t have much of an
appetite.
When she first came to New
York, she could afford to reit
but one room. But her hus-
band left her a six story house
on Fifth Avenue—a house that
cost $186,600, a house deco-
rated with Gobelin tapestries,
rugs, and antiques worth a
fortune. Yet she wants to sell
the house, dismias her help,
and go back to living in an
apartment with one room and
e kitchenette.
She could travel everywhere
and live in the most luxurious
hotels; bat she doesn’t. She
spends every summer painting
flowers on a Massachusetts
farm.
With all of her millions, is
she any better off then you or
I? She can sleep in only one
bed at a time. She can wear
only one dress at a time. She
can’t listen to any better radio
programs than you or t ean.
She . probably doesn’t eat as
much as you or I do. And you
and I could spend our spare
time painting flowers if we
wanted to.
Why don’t you and I appre-
ciate what we have instead of
longing for something we can’t
get? Do yon have youth?
Thank God for it. I know a
woman who would give ten
million dollars if she eo'ild
only be young again.
Do you have healthy chil-
dren? Thank God for that,
for I know one of the wealth-
iest men in America who
would gladly pay all of hit mil-
lions to anyone who could give
a normal brain to his feeble-
minded child.
Do you think you would be
happy if you lived in a palace
and ruled one flfth of all the
people on this earth? A king
who did just that, recently
gave it all up because he in-
sisted on having what you and
I already have—the right to
marry the person we love.
Let me beg you to stop envy-
ing people and be grateful for
the many things you have to
be thankful for. Why not
reach for a pencil now and
write on the margin of thia pa-
per a list of those things? If
you will, you will probably be
a bit happier for the balance
of today; and that is what all
of us are seeking—happiness.
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