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The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 4

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i Tors. THE EVTNTN'3 CmZETT. CTTATA, CANADA, SATURDAY, MAT JV153L START DECENNIAL CENSUS OF CANADA ON MONDAY! irrh barber shoo beauty par-i field work or collection of the facts. will be upwards of 100 enumerators, of the national We untouched. Ec I SI je r-! and the compilation ar.d tabulation men and women.

Py. too is an appraisement lors, snoe wi t-v- hn.tr. mrinnal utatus necessary a rk. Active Director Commissioner of the 1931 census are eht questions on the population schedule educational service i tr.s lauer mw cciisj icjjua. i juc i tajr.ir.ent ar.d m'ir al- i In B-annxg me neia won, ine piannea ui iiic ulihucl wc oik i jnracuv nrM.mn establishments rrprrisi lib-! aus datricts.

each in charge of a ence of other countries ar.d of six Think Canada's Population Up To Ten Million 1 census commissioner. The districts i previous censuses in Canada in view, raries; co.Tsr.od:ty repair establish Paris Shoe Fashion Studio 111 O'Connor Street) are then divided into subdistricts and with special reference to the re 9 Wi Ttia Has the finest system of thot i AI1 rranufacturers will be sent varjitg iwpuiwuu nmu nw tn.ni icm aulu. akinff information ttion nw rural wcaiiues ana irom i census wiru iot mc nrueut I repairing. Shoes made to order i compriiuig 40 questions In aJl under the headmj "Unemployment." Answers will be secured to the questions "Were you at work on June and if not, for which of six or more reasons, which are duly set forth. Inquiry is made also as to how many weeks out of the past year the individual has been unemployed and for what reason.

On the same population schedule under the heading "Description of Home." there is the new question. "Has this family a radio?" There are questions as to the type of construction of the house and the number of rooms used by the family. to lit any iooi. oaiisiaciion as. sured.

Queen 714. as to r.e channels through which to 1.800 in urban, each subdistrict thev their goods, direct to con- 1 having an enumerator, who consumer, through jobber, agent, com- ducts the house to house or farm mission merchant. their own to farm canvass. branches fc 'rile 1931 cus requires 253 cen- Cla. As "Homemakers" commissioners and probably Interesting sidelight on the enumerators.

For Ottawa the community as a whole and therefore directly or indirectly of every member of the community. Since the last 1921 census the aftermath of the war, setting up new strains and stresses and generally creating conditions of the utmost consequence to Canada's national BALTIMORE, Md May 29. 1 William H. Gardner, Winnpe Man, was elected one of the vice. presidents of the National i tion of Real Estate Boards at to.

Staff of 15,253 Persons Will Engaged in Work. Cost i Estimated at S3.125.000. census feature married women be- ueorge r. reney is me census com missioner, while under him there future, has left scarcely a branch day's session. I Real Stocktaking Of Canada and Resources HALF PEEGE i J7 aoi tni rto; the Tai Iin Pl Cr ted I'm Six Schedules.

There are six schedules in all to be used in connection with the 1931 census, as follows: Population; agriculture; livestock, fruit growing, in towns: merchandising and service establishments: blindness and deaf-mutism and institutions. The schedule relating to agriculture was drawn up In consultation with Dominion and provincial agri- iltnr.il HAnamanl, artA other SALE All Information Given By Citizens to be Treated as Confidential. I i GEORGE r. PERLET, secretary-treasurer of the Ottawa Liberal- ing classed as "homemaker" where i formerly they were set down as I "housewife." Comment heard on this by the women is that they are complimented by the change in designation, while some men ask. "Isn't the husband a homemaker?" But then the husband might be termed the "Homeprovider." Boys and girls born after June 1 non't be counted in the 1931 census, even though they have arrived before the enumerator gets to their home.

Likewise persons who have died after June 1 before the enumerator arrives will be counted, since the census is strictly as to population and all other condition on June 1. Widespread Organization. The organization by which this far flung investigation is carried out and its results reduced to comprehensible and usable form is a large one. Its nucleus exists in a small Meniscus Invisible Bifocal Lenses agricultural authorities, and in the BA- F.S.S., light of suggestions made for a tistician, who as head world ceasus of agriculture by the Statistics, is the International Institute of Agricul- elaborate ma Conservative Association, who is the census commissioner for the Capital. He will have upwards of 100 census enumerators working under his direction.

ture renrMentimr fin countries census and the A CHARGE ACCOUNT MAY BE ARRANGED Monday morning next. June 1, Canada will commence such a detailed and informative national stocktaking through the 1931 census as has never before been attempted. A staff of 15.253 persons will be used to take the census in the ensuing six weeks, working from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the 49th Parallel to the Arctic Circle. Another headouarters staff of 750 compilation of all its fi- gures. An Outstanding Optical Sale FOR ONE WEEK SATURDAY TILL SATURDAY We are offering any lenses you mav require, Kryptok, Fused Invisible, or Tone lenses at HALF PRICE.

mine of information will be secured from more than 700.000 farmers in Canada giving a picture also as to the relation existing between agriculture as the recognized leading 1 A "old we eat of ore shi old the On account of the lery laree response to our former sale, we would ask jnn to make an appointment and art time. and business concerns collects only the name, address and class of each; this Is for use of a subsequent detailed inquiry which will be con minion census in 1921 has shown a greater proportionate increase than other parts of the Dominion, which, if true, will result in a reduction in the total number of members in the House of Commons. Is Real Stocktaking. basic industry of the Dominion, and all other industries. clerks will renuire from one to "IT MAKES A VAST DIFFERENCE WHO EXAMINES YOUR EYES." DUNNING PTICAL PAUL RS But the census has far wider uses ducted through correspondence by permanent staff constituting one of the Bureau of Statistics, and which i the branches of the Bureau of Sta-will afford a considerable body of tistics maintaining a connecting new data covering the whole field link between census and census so of distribution.

Under this head that experience is continuous and the census will secure information cumulative. Then the census work on personal service establishments falls into two main sections, the than to fix electoral representation QUEEN 261 PHONE FOR AN APPOINTMENT 3 I Co' Canada Life Bldg. 75 Sparks St (Opposite Devlin's). Under the modern system it in fact constitutes nothing less than a great periodical stocktaking of the Cana three years at Ottawa to complete the tabulation and publication of the statistical Information secured. It will cost $3,125,000 or more for the census this year, which Is the seventh comprehensive decennial census since Confederation in 1867.

In far flung districts of the Dominion pack trains, chartered steamers, airplanes. Royal Canadian Mounted Police and asentj of the Indian Department will be pressed into service to ensure that no section escapes enumeration. When the counting of noses is dian people, designed to show from the widest angle the point that has been reached in the general progress of the nation. People are of the first importance after all in the state, and thus figures as to F.Ai$fiM,fMT?rara phone The 1931 census of agriculture aims at securing accurate statistics relative to farm land, buildings, livestock and other farm property as of June figures for 1930 regarding crops, farm expenses, livestock products, figures on vacant and abandoned farms. A new question, introduced at the request of many agricultural associations and farmers' organizations, is the question on farm mortgages, asking for the amount of the mortgage on June 1 and the amount of interest paid on mortgages in 1930.

The replies to this question will answer for the first time the question of the amount of farm mortgage indebtedness in Canada. The record of the blind and deaf mutes is to facilitate the work of educational and other institutions for these classes. The new schedule on Industrial their number, sex, age, occupation, racial origin, language, education, etc. are matters of the great est moment. Moreover, they constitute the background against Jane fSaBe of SB-inch Radios ten it is expected that Canada's population will reach nearly 000 souls, since the estimate of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics on June 1 a year ago placed the population at 9.934.500 persons.

This gigantic task is under the direction of Hon. H. Stevens, minister of trade and commerce, and R. H. Coats, Dominion statistician.

A royal proclamation has been issued by His Excellency the Governor General commanding "all which almost all other facts must be projected if the latter are to have any real significance. The well being of the state, physical, moral, economic (including such various phases as birth and death rates, education, transportation facilities, financial condition, etc.) can be understood only through the medium of population statistics. Auction and Contract BY MILTON C. WORK our loving subjects" to assist in the accurate completion of the census as being of "the utmost importance to the interests of all the people of the Information Confidential. 7-6-H-3-2 WW in the Governor General proclamation reassuring stress Is placed on the fact that the information Enables Government.

linked with other data, the census rounds out the scheme of information by which, as by a chart, the Dominion government directs the affairs of the nation. Without the census, it is literal truth to say that legislation and administration would be carried on in the dark, and that there would be no means of knowing whether the country was on the road to success or disaster. As the practice of nations In regard to census-taking tends more 1410 (4 NOftTH M-0-7-8 given by the individual citizen in connection with the census is "absolutely confidential" and further "that the Information cannot be Used In connection with taxation, with military or Jury service, with JWIO-5-3-2 10-8-7-4-3 J-9-8-5 SOUTH fw (2 H-5-3 the compulsion of school attend ance. with the regulation of imml gratlon or with the enforcennt of "any national, state or municipal law M-fl B-Q-J-IO 6 With the above hand at Contract and more toward uniformity, the census affords inestimable benefits of comparison with other countries and enables our national problems to be studied in their general setting. Especially Is this true of the countries which constitute the British Commonwealth of Nations.

The censuses of the different dominions, of India and of the Crown colonics. Bridge, South would bid one Spade. The soundness of bidding one initially on an unsupported five-card suit headed by Ace-Queen-Jaclc is questionable; but in this case South had six Spades and an extra honor are now taken in the same year or bylaw." In Canada the fundamental legal reason for the census is to determine the representation in the federal parliament, since, under the British North America Act of 1967, the province of Quebec was given a fixed number of 65 seats In the House of Commons of 245 members with the other eight provinces having pro rata representation on the population basis. The census enables parliament to paw a redistribution bill to maintain the status quo concerning representation. It has been Intimated that the popula- tlon of Quebec since the last Do-1 and within a few weeks of each other: so that when the results are completed a large and harmonious body of data is at hand for the I Newest in Color and Pattern at Greatest Savings study not only of the relations of the component parts but also of the place of tr Empire as a unit among in the shape of the Ten.

West doubtless would bid two Diamonds, although the bid might cause East to overestimate West's high-card strength. North could bid three Diamonds or five Spades. The bid of five Spades would show great strength and Invite South to bid for a slam, but would not indicate where North's strength lay. The bid of three Diamonds would show the probability of a slam at Spades (partner's suit) and announce that the nations of the world. Among the distinctly new features 'i and $1.95 note wo Monday no Diamond tricks would be lost.

Overcalllng In the adverse declaration would show that North either held no Diamonds and had sufll-clent trumps to ruff as often as astounding feature for Monday beautiful Radiosa Silks 38 inches wide. newest dots. squares smartest floral patterns large and small designs all are here in a rare selection of summer shades might be necessary, or that he had the singleton Are of Diamonds and trump length. This type of overcaU alays Implies slam probabilities. Following North's three Diamonds, South would bid three Spades and North five; Sout then would bid six.

West would lead the Queen of niamnnds. North would win and to trlrk 2 lead a Spade which South Queen would win. thus ensuring the ml ImL I rapture of East's King by another finesse. To trick 3 South would lead a Club, win In dummy, and lead a lhe kind that sells at $1.50 and tar S1.95 Monday $1 yd. Silk Department Downstair Store.

ANNECY, FRANCE. IpiUS chnt-minc town Siivoy, Krnnre, is KtrnniMy arrhsin with it leisurely cannta snd urcmlrH strfcK Situate.l letHfi'ii preen hills ond mirrored lake, it a favored ttuiur for artiste. ii Smart Summer Gloves second Spade and flnewe; then the Spade Are whirh would capture East a King. To trlrk 6. South would lead a Heart and, being able to discard one Heart on a winning Club In dummy.

Declarer would riot take the double finesse but would win with the Queen. After that I North's Heart Are would take trick, and North would lead the Ace of Club, giving South a Heart dls- card. Then a third Heart would be i led on which West would be obliged to play the King, and South would ruff. South would lead a Diamond whirh North would ruff and cash his good bran. Smith discarding a Diamond, and North nd South would take thirteen tricks lor which they would have had no licen.se tn bid.

Even bidding a small slam would be a bit venlurenome. it opTfliht. John y. Iillle for Women and Misses pntiMe vi.wti Fiilnir Gloves tin in Spear point and mis Mindes itirliide four ImiIIiiii I other liitc, Vi-ry SinTiiil 98c nd luilT. Moinliiy, pair FUNERAL DIRECTORS 172 ELQIH ST.

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