 In April, Uncle Sam takes a census as required by the Constitution to determine state representation in Congress. 140,000 trained men and women will visit America's 6 million farms at the rate of 200,000 a day. The city's population must be enumerated in two weeks. Every home must be visited. Every person must be counted. They'll cover miles of city streets from New York to San Francisco. The census taker who visits your home has credentials. Your information is confidential. These are valid questions, questions of Americans in all walks of life, about the number of rooms in their homes, the heating facilities, the number of children they have, the number and kind of livestock they own, the crops they grow. This information is gathered and sent to Census Bureau offices near Washington. Here it is made ready in table form for the many users of census data. Taking a census is a tremendous task. When your census taker calls on you, cooperate and make sure you count in America's future. The United States didn't always look like this. Here's the way the census taker sought in 1790, 1810, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 1890 to 1940. Everybody counts in 1950. This census will show women outnumber men. This has not always been true. The 1890 style, 30 million women in this country. 1910 style, 44 million. 1930 style, 60 million. And today's 75 million. And the style is, cooperate with your census takers. During the war years, 1940 to 45, millions of Americans were on the move to the Mobile Area. To the Hampton Roads area. To the Detroit area. To the Los Angeles area. Where will they be in 1950? We'll know when this census is completed. Where will the center of population be after the 1950 census? Watch how it has moves in 1790 from Chesapeake Bay across Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Southern Ohio, Indiana. Where is the center of population today? We will know when the 17th the Senial Census is completed. Beginning April 1st, the United States conducts the 17th the Senial Census. The census taker who visits you may look like this. This. Or this. But his credentials will look like this. The census taker will show his credentials when he calls. Make sure you count in America's future.