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The Bureau of the Census ■will hold the mirror up to the nation and ite prorresa next spring when it conducts the 17th Decennial Census.
A variety of internetting and important facte twill he collected —concerning the population and the • economy, all testifying to the Action’s remarkable growth and expansion. But of even deeper significance in view of the trend of the times, the Census will provide fresh evidence of the dynamics of a free and democratic society, and will thus represent a tribhte to what the American people have accomplished by selfreliance, enterprise, hard work and thrift. The official starting da.te.for the count is April 1, but it willVctually get underway earlier in remote regions, like Eskimos in Alaska so that those who live in ' their villages above the Arctic Circle, tan be reached before the spring thaw. The overall coet is estimated at about -millions, over double the cost of the 1940 census. Much of this increase is due to the rise in the price level
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Back in 1700, when the first census was taken, the job was done by 17 U. S. marshals and 000 assistants. At that time the infant Republic, which had won its freedom from Britain less than a decade before, consisted of only 16 states and two thinly-settled regions, the Northwest and Southwest Territories. Florida and the whole area west of the Missis-" sippi -River were “foreign” country. The total population was less than 4 million, of whom about 700,000 were listed as slaves. The economy was predominately rural
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