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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
WRONG VIEWS OF THE CENSUS. 
No Harm Can Come to Any Person Who Answers the Questions. 
Letters from the census supervis- 
ors to the U. S. Census Bureau, 
show the erroneous apprehension of 
a considerable element of the popu- 
lation that their answers to the enu- 
merators’ questions in the next cen- 
sus, beginning April 15, this year, 
will cause increased taxation, legal 
entanglements, or injurious conse- 
quences to their persons and prop- 
erty. 
In order to quiet such unfounded 
fears, which would, unless removed, 
materially affect the accuracy of the 
census, the bureau has prepared an 
official statement relative to the de- 
cennial census, its origin, purpose, 
and uses. 
This statement should furnish 
complete assurance to those concern- 
ed that information given the enu- 
merators is held by the Census Bu- 
reau in the strictest confidence with 
reference to the identity of the in- 
formants, as required by the policy 
of the bureau and commanded by 
the law of the United States. 
The bureau’ earnestly hopes 
that clergymen, physicians, school- 
teachers, employers, and other pub- 
lic-spirited citizens who come in ¢on- 
tact with large numbers of people, 
will cooperate with the bureau by 
telling persons who are believed to 
entertain erroneous opinions of the 
census the real facts and urging 
them to give full replies to the enu- 
merators. Teachers are particularly 
requested to speak of the census to 
the school children and ask them to 
tell their parents about it. 
The statement issued by the bu- 
‘au explains that the Constitution 
. census of the population 
ob ... 2n every ten years in order 
eter A. Chisholm. 
Chisholm, for several 
yu . resident of Manches- 
ter, Sunday evening at the 
Eliot ..o. pital, Boston, after a brief 
illness. He went to the hospital the 
early part of last week to undergo 
an operation for some stomach 
trouble. Mr. Chisholm was born in 
Guysburo, N. S., nearly 72 years 
ago. He came to this country as a 
young man and for a few years set- 
tled in Marshfield, coming to Glou- 
cester, in 1874, where he engaged in 
the jewelry and watch-making bus- 
iness. About 13 years ago he sold 
his business to his brother, Wm. F. 
Chisholm, a former Manchester res- 
ident also, and the business is still 
being conducted at the old stand. 
Mr. Chisholm was prominent in 
to reapportion state representation 
in the Natioial House of Representa- 
tives. It is the means also to ascer- 
tain the increase in the population, 
agriculture, industries, and resoure- 
es of the nation since the last census. 
It is emphatically declared, by the 
statement, that the information 
sought from the people of the Unit- 
ed States is used solely for general 
statistical purposes. It will neither 
be published nor used in any other 
way to disclose facts regarding any 
individual or enterprise. The cen- 
sus, it goes on to say, is not, never 
has been, and can not be employed 
to obtain information that can be 
used in any way in the assessment 
of property for purposes of taxa- 
tion or the collection of taxes, either 
national, state, or local; or for de- 
portation proceedings, extradition 
measures, army or navy conscrip- 
tion, internal-revenue investigations, 
compulsory school attendance, child- 
labor law prosecutions, quarantine 
regulations, or in any way to affect 
the life, liberty, or property of any 
person. 
It points out that replies to the 
enumerators are and must be held 
by the Census Bureau in strict and 
absolute confidence. . All the bureau 
officials, supervisors’. clerks, enu- 
merators, and interpreters, before 
entering upon their duties, are 
obliged to take a solemn oath not to 
disclose any information they may 
obtain, except to the Census Bureau, 
and a violation of the United States 
law in regard to this oath means a 
$1000 fine or imprisonment for two 
years, or both, in the discretion of 
the court. 
Masonic circles. He was also a mem- 
ber of Ocean lodge, I. O. 0. F., of 
Gloucester, and of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery. 
Essex Co. Association, W. R. C. 
The Essex County Association, W. 
R.-C., will meet with John Chipman 
Corps, No. 30, at the Baptist church, 
Beverly, next Wednesday, March 9. 
A social session will be held in the 
afternoon at 2 o’clock. A number 
from the Manchester and Beverly 
Farms corps are planning to attend 
this quarterly meeting. 
We are told that blasts from a 
ram’s horn knocked down the walls 
of Jericho, and we have seen a blast 
from a ram’s horn knock down a 
man. 
THE VALUE OF QUIETNESS. 
_ 
Rev. L. H. Ruge Preached Interest- 
ing Sermon, Sunday Morning, at 
the Congregational Church, 
Manchester. 
Rev. L. H. Ruge preached Sunday 
morning at the Congregational 
church, Manchester, taking for his 
text, the words, found in the serip- 
ture reading of the morning, ‘‘Be 
still and know that I am God.’’ He 
said in part: 
“This is an age of hurry and 
hustle. The motto of the world is, 
aster, Faster, Faster. The sym- 
bols of the times are the clang and 
clatter of the high speed electric 
train and the rush of the subway 
express with the roar of the auto. 
The world is looking for a man who 
can reduce the time schedule of the 
ocean steamship and the trans-con- 
tinental train. Now we are looking 
for a man to shoot the crowds 
through the air. A man in any eall- 
ing today is valued by the speed 
with which he can _ accomplish 
things We have still the ignorant 
and barbaric idea that God is in the 
whirlwind instead of in the still 
small voice. All this struggling un- 
rest is fatal to the physical man. 
Scores every day pay the toll of 
noise and excitement. But the strug- 
gling life has its place in the pro- 
gress of human events, if it is bal- 
anced by seasons of calm repose. 
‘““This unrest is fatal to the ecul- 
tivation of intellectual life. It is 
fatal to calm meditation which is 
essential in the building of wisdom. 
We are being rushed through so 
many text books of science that the 
mediocre multitudes are a result. 
‘‘Noise and bustle are fatal to ar- 
tistie faculties. An artist never 
paints a picture in a hurry. Strains 
of music are often born in the si- 
lence of the night. This is where 
scientific and philosophical laws are 
founded. 
‘‘Bustle is fatal to the cultivation 
of family life. There is no time for 
conversation, the father rushes’ 'ton 
work in the morning, the children 
rush to school, and the mother rush- 
es through her household tasks and 
her social duties, and the whole fam- 
ily rush to the theatre in the eve- 
ning. 
‘‘It is fatal to the true formation 
of character. Quiet, calm, hope, 
peace and faith—such as these are 
conducive to the finest characters. 
Fogs and vapors literally cover the 
brain of a person excited. Deep 
down into the past experiences, 
down the dark stairs of memory, of- 
ten slippery with forgotten tears, we 
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