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Tafcnfnat, Alaska, Vtrv.' 9, 19l29.
1930 CENSUS WILL’ BE A '
BIG UNDERTAKING
The .rear 1930 will of unusual in
terest to all of us because it is the'
yeir in which the official eeilstflt'ivilf1
be taken. All of us will be'glad to
knonw how much thfe old • toivri has--"
grown in ten years,' especially if fit
Kai grown-‘vigafoOMy'and well. An
interesting story 6f the preparation?
del’ngr matte for taking "the census, to
gether with a hibtory of our census
takist,' wiH be found in the current
issue1 of the'National Republic: It
W*s written hy*William M. Steuart,
director of the bureau of the census
of the United- St&t#e Department of:
COmmertri, uctlert- he title “Unelel
Sam to Go; Visiting.” In setting out!
thb history of the development of our \
census taking in America, Mr. Stou- \
art says, ip part; ^ j
“Some three f&pumid * years ago!
Kihg DifCid set" e*it jo number the1
people of Israel and Jucah. It took ‘
mihe mon'.hs and" twenty days to*
make the' count, and the returns
sHfawOd 1,305,00(1 ^valiant men that1
drfew the Sword/
“At fhe:,ISe^inn:ng' of- our own na
tional- exitrerreo' we took a census ap
proximately iequar in magnitude to
chht-tolr&fi-'^by' King David'. The
United States Tndrkhals,-- to- * whom1
this task'was assigned, were allowed
thirteen months f6r the enumeration,
and'returned'a total population of a
littte ess th&uf 4,000,000. -The census
oK population was established as a
dctennial event'by the eonstttuti&rt.of-l
thk UhitcI States; and is the only-cur*
relit statistical! inquiry which rests
>rt such fundamental legal authority.
‘Fjtioir to F798, the date of the first
•rtisus of the United States, little had
been done in any country toward es
tablishing a regular periodic census
of population. Since that date the
nations of the world have been de
veloping methods and machinery that
make possible a speedy counting of
the people and the accumulation at
the same time of a vast amount of
data regarding educational, social and.
economic conditions. The develop
ment of modern statistical methods
has probably gone farther in the
United States than in any other
country, and the director of the n
sus is required in one month to enu
merate 120,000,000 people and to ob
tain rather exhaustive information
for about 6,250,000 farms,. 14,00ft
mines and quarries, and more- than>
100,000irrigation and drainage pro
jects.
“The population cf - eontinantat
.United States is now increasing, at.
the rate of 1,400,000 persons per year,,
or approximately one person--. evorK,
twenty-six seconds, -The :,rk
crease is made- up of -the -annual- ex,
cess of births over deaths , which
amounts to 1,150 000, >and the; excess
of immigration'- ovort? emigration,
'tvh'tehramoimru-to an additional 340,
000’pet ;yoarv By V‘30.thfe population
will ibe* mttre -'than »tHirty - times - s
great as'-it way in 1790, and nearly
lwi*e'Whabtit' wwv in- 1890, or only
forty. years ago.
“History records no. other instance
>n wtiichthe population has grown-so
rapidly. Further, there1 has been no
other nation in which the increase in
population has been accompanied bp
such, improvement-in the comfort and
well-being of the.people. As a statis
tician,. I believe that this advance
ment has been due in no small degree
to the definite knowledge we. have of
our production, our resources, our fa
cilities for transportation, and - our
population, as- expressed in current
statistics. It is the duty of the bu
reau of the census to examine much
of this informatioiv|md. give publicity
to it so that eveup Individual and
every .industrial and qommcrcial en
terprse, big or little, may have-it and
may he in a position to. make sure of
it.”—Exchange. -
Writing to President Bunneau from,
the University oi Utah, where he is, a
junior in electrioal engineering,,
Franklin Shafer, a. Fairbanks boy,
makes, the following comment con
terning his work. at. the Alaska. Agri
cultural College and. School of Mines:
“It’s -quite a distinction to have
gone tj, the ‘Farthest North’ College. -
and I rtewpr get tired of .telling peo-1
pie about it. I believe that, the equip
ment far . mining engineering is much i
more complete , up* there than: it'is
here."
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(OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.)
Report of the’ Financial Condition of (he
^Bn^fS 'St Merchants Bank of Iditarotf, Alaska,
Located at IdiUrod, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on the
30th day of September, 1929i
Resources
jLo&ns and discountts..$21,900.00
; Overdrafts . 4,827.17
United States bonds
t owned . 11,098*06'
JOrHer bonds and war
.rants owned . 47;427.50
time froih other banks.... 56,982.48
.(< 'HeCka-art'other banks
4r« bther cash items ’.. 3,579.76
. dish on hand .. 11,888.50
Bullion on hand".:.. 288.47
Liabilities.
Capital stock paid in.,.. $25;000,06
Surplus fund . 10,000.00
Undivided profits less ex
penses paid . 5,177.06
Individual and savings
deposits . 116,696.76
Demand and time certifi
cates of deposit . 2,118.06
F Tot*1 . .$1^991.88 Total.. .$157,991.88
! United States of America, i
| Territory of Alaska,
: Fourth Judicial Division. -. I
I
ss.
I, LesT. Pence, Cashier of th4 above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing atitenentrtotrtie to the best of my knowl
i edge and bohef. LEE T. PENCE, Cashier,
i (Notorial seal) 1 (Correct Attest)
HURRY DONNELLEY,
H/ PJ SHEPPARD,
Directors;
Subscribed and sworn to' beiford m'e5 this t0tfc day of October,'1929.
D. E. BROWNE,
I Commissioner and ex-officio Justice
( of the Peace.
BBBSfr. SQUIBS^
And„ italics, listen:. E.ve took to
wearing-; clothes i'B - the fall.—Dallas
News..
The woman doesn't always pay and''
pay. Somet/ire#** • she. charges, and.
; chatgss.r—Ariznn i^Producer.
A naws item tells of a Boston man
who, slapped-:,his wife as. she. slept.
Men. are gRtting-'holder and bolder—
Greenville Piedmont....
'Che., national affeption.-.fchr the hot
dog has. proceeded. far beyond the I
puppy-lave stage.—Arkansas Gazette.
Wh.it. the country, needs is some
method. of increasing the price of
everything without adding to the cost,
of living,-—Jnokson iNewst
Chicago judge sentenced a man to
•’sing to his wife twice a day. Thus
Ho. the innocent suffer with the guilty...
—Florence (Ala.) Herald. .
The- visible- backbone of the nation
seems to be entirely feminine.—Ar
kansas Gazette.
The horse took. you longer to. get
there, but you didn’t have to drive
half way back to hitch.—Publishers ■*
Syndicate.
The saloons will never, never re
turn. The filling stations have all the
prominent iorners.—Florida Times
Union.
Tanning the hide promotes health,
and in the oln days it also served to
develop moral fiber.—Key West- Citi
zen.
Few women are rolor-blind, exrept
in the matter-of distinguishing red
and green traffic lights.
It seems to be quite generally
agreed that the A mb wasn’t the guy
that put the psj ia Palestine—
Springfield Union.
If prisons were fitted up with* li
braries, center tables, rag carpets,
,and canary birds, maybe they would
look so mhch like home that paoopln
wohld. try-to keep out of them.*—Cin' -
cinnati Times-Star.
Political ’ Keasnns.
A few days' iafter the election re
turns were in, an offender was
^brought beforet ehc bar-of justice in
a small Western town. The judge
viewed' him with a stern eye as he
saidfci ’‘Vila are charged with having
registered illegally?’ ■
“Yer honor,” replied the shrewd
and diplomatic culprit, “maybe I did,
but, sfture it wasn’t till I found they
were trying hard ft* beat Yer Honor
that I became desperate.” j
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