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A Hord One to Answer

The small boy approached his father, who was busily engaged in reading the evening newspaper, and said:

"Father, can I ask you a question?"

"Why, certainly, son; what is it?"

Said the boy: "I've been wondering. Supposing you and Mother had not married each other, but each one had married someone else, and each of those couples had a boy. Now, which of those boys would I be, and who would the other one be, and what relation would we be to each otherand if so, why?"

New Produet Profitips

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Gypsum wallboard craftsmen know the importance of Blue Diamond uniforrnitg. Uniform characteristics aid in the fast production of smooth, ffre resistant walls and ceilings. Aniformitg is a result of quality control.

Blue Diamond quality control begins with the grading of gypsum rock at the mines. It carries through every step of gypsum wallboard manufacture to the ffnal placement of dunnage to safeguard its condition in 'transit.

Applicator craftsmanship and Blue Diamond uniformity join hands in producing smooth . . . solid . . . fire resistant walls and ceilings.

Small transistorized pre-amplifers are the heart of this new Executone sound systerh. One pre-amplifier is located adjacent toand in some cases built into-every Executone microphone, radio tuner and record player in the system. This pre-amplifier boosts the week signal and makes it strong enough to travel long distances to the power booster amplifier or mixer without noise pickup or other decrease in the quality of sound reproduction. The new Executone approach makes possible great economy in installation and service: Input and output lines may be run in the same conduit without interference, eliminating some conduit runs; Much expensive power wiring can be eliminated, since the transistorized prearnplifiers and mixers require no 1l0-volt AC connection; Plug-in mi.niature terminal blocks used throughout the system and plug-in relay controls on the power boosters make for easier, less costly installation and service.

Additional information on this new sound system is available from Executone, Inc., 415 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.

More Profit From Farm Building Sales

A 1,6-page illustrated booklet just released by West Coast Lumbermen's Association shows retail lumber dealers how to fabricate and erect complete farm buildings using Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock and Western red cedar lumber. Titled "How To Fabricate and Erect Panelized Farm Buildings," the book explains the details of wall prefabrication, truss building and on-site erection. Buildings of many styles and sizes can be constructed using the system explained in the booklet.

The new pressure-treated post and lurnrber foundation is explained and illustrated in detail. All necessary lumber and hardware is listed by size and quantity, plus a truss span table for rafter supports.

Your free copy may be obtained from West Coast Lumbermen's Association, l4l0 S.W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon.

Census Taken to Correct 'Wild" Estimate

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New Hampshire's first colonial census was taken in 1767 with a count of 52,7@ inhabitants. T'he colony took three additional censuses. One of these. in 1775. was taken to ascertain the quantity of arms and ammunition in the province and to correct (according to the 1909 report of "A Century of PopuIation Growth" issued by the Bureau of the Census) a "wild" estimate made by the Continental Congress of 102,000 inhabitants, exclusive of slaves.

Pennsylvania and Delaware, as well as the Southern'colonies of Georgia and North and South Carolina, conducted no colonial censuses as far as records show.

The Decennial Census of the United States is the world's oldest of the modern census ' systems. Without lapse, the Census of Population has been taken at l0-year intervals since 1790. The Census of Agriculture was initiated in 1840. The Census of Housing is the infant of the three units of the 1960 Census. having been taken for the first time in 1940.

First of the European countries to make a complete enumeration of its population was .Sweden, in 7749, but the country did not then continue full- scale counts at periodic intervals. Spain's first census came in 1798, while Great Britain and France entered the list in 1801. Prussia took its first modern census in 181Q Norway in 1815, Austria in 1818, Greece in 1836, Italy in 1861, and Russia in 1897.

The first Decennial Census of the United States enumerated a population of 3,929,274. The 1850 population census was the first to list by name every inhabitant of the country. It provided also for noting age, sex, color, place of birth, marital ltatus, and other facts about individuals.

Census Bureau

Established in 1902

' The first 12 censuses of the United States, 1790-1900, were conducted without rbenefit of a permanent Census Office. For these censuses, tem,porary organizations were set up every 10 years, then to be disbanded until the next census. After the 1900 Census, Congress enacted the Permanent Census Act creating the Bureau of the Census on March 6, 1902.

As a result of the establishment of the Census Bureau as a permanent statistical gathering agency, the efficiency of censustaking and of the tabulation and publication of results has shown continued improvement. Notable has been the levelling of the peak load of work, coinciding with the decennial census years, by distribution of portions of the original decennial censuses to other years; and the increase in frequency of canvasses in the fields of industry, distribution, commerce and agriculture to provide more current statistical information. The continuing development of new tabulating equipment through the years to the present-day lightning-fast electronic computers, and the introduction of scientific statistical sampling methods are also notable advancements.

Many Censuses in l0-year Cycle

Since 1900, censuses in certain fields have come to be taken more frequently than decennially. The Censuses of Business, Manufactures. and Mineral Industribs are taken at five-year intervals covering the years ending in "3" and "8." The Census of Agriculture is taken every five years in the years ending in "4' and. Census of Governments collects statistics of state and local governments in years ending in "2" and "7."

In addition to the periodic censuses, the Census Bureau conducts comprehensive surveys at annual, quarterly, and monthly intervals in the fields of employment, unemployment, manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, exports and imports, financial statistics of states and cities and other subjects for which current statistical needs arise.

As a result of the many advancements made in the science of census-taking, the United States has developed the most comprehensive body of statistical information (in detail and in scope) to ibe found anywhere in the world.