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useless census -shallwe continue it?\n\n[New York]  \n[1928]  \n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION\n\n## BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n308ZCity club of New York.  \nBox 272 A useless census -shall we continue it?…New Yorkg,City club of Now York,19281  \n7 p.20 cm.(city club panphlets,1928 series,no.5)  \nAno ther copy in Kilroe Collection.  1928,In envelope with its Our public buildingsand monuments.  1928  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  Reproduclions may not be made without permission from Columbia UniversityLibraries.                  \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:            35mmREDUCTION RATIO:            11:1  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA IIA  IB IIB  \n       \nDATE FILMED:                    3-5-98  \n## INITIALS:\n\nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                24038  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# A Useless Census—Shall We Continue It?\n\nOur present State Census costs us two millions totake and is of little worth when completed.Atslight expense the U.S.Census Bureau can giveus the necessary data for legislative apportion-ment.Let's cut off this subsidy to the spoilsmen.  \nTHE CITY CLUB OF NEW YORK55 WEST 44TH STREET  \n# THE NEW YORK STATE CENSUS\n\nOur Census a Mere Enumeration  \nNew York has had a state censts since 1875 ior thesole purpose of re-apportioning the legislature,Fronthat date until 1925 the census consisted merely ofthe enumeration of the inhabitants.This is all that thestate constitution requires:  \n\"An enuneration of the inhabitants of the state shallbe taken under the direction of the Secretary of Stateduring the months of May and June in the year 1905and in the same nonths every tenth year thereafter,and the said Senate(and Assembly)shall be so alteredby the Legislature....”  \nArt.3,Sec.4.New York State Constitution.In 1925,however,a more ambitious attempt was madeThe legislature,to quote Mr,Randall Le Boeuf.recentMoreland investigator,“appropriated a sum whichwould have been sufficient to cover the cost of a scienti-fic tabulation but for wasteful and illegal use of it.\"With the personalities of that census,we are not con-cerned.We collect a mass of infornation at a greatexpense but fail to secure the scientific tabulation whichalone would warrant the expenditure.The waste of thestate money is practically ordered by constitution.  \n## Why Not Use the Federal Census?\n\nNew York State does not need a census for re-appor-tionment.While the federal censtus cannot be used forthat purpose as it is,it can be so easily and inexpensive-ly adapted to that usethat a separate state census as or-dered by the constitution is a waste of money.The stateconstitution requires that the re-apportionment be made on  \nthe lasis of“inlabitants excludling aliens”or in otherwords,the number of citizens.Therefore,the state censusfigures have always been given as \"citizensaliens and to-tal.\"The national census figures are given as native born,foreign born,and total,with the subheads under foreignborn as naturalized,with first papers,aliens and un-known.It would be a perfectly simple matter with thesefigures to calculate the number of citizens in any areain the state.The only other significant difference be-tween the state and federal census is that the state censussupplies block population figures for certain turban cen-ters.In 1925 those selected were:(1)New York City;  \n(2)Buffalo.Tonawanda.Lackawanna;(3)Roches-ter;(4)New Rochelle,White Plains and Yonkers.Thisis providedl in order that senate and assembly districtscan be accurately defined and gerrymandering made moredificultThe national census does not supply blockpopulation figures.Major Steward,the head of theFedleral Census Burea,has indicated a willingness tocooperate and has agreed to use block maps furnishedby the City Census Committee,Inc.,in the preparationof the 1930 census.There 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