Washington, Jan. 1.
The postal census of the unemployed.was inaugurated on November 16 by distributing more than 85,000,000 unemployment census forms. They contained fourteen questions, which everyone totally or partially unemployed was asked to fill im and return to Washington before November. 20.
In appealing to the public to cooperate whole-heartedly in (ne census, would furnish statistics on Wwhich.a long-range programme for the re-employment of the workless "owa be based The President added. that some countries had solved the problem by a huge armament programme, but America did not want to do it th way—Reuter.
A sudden snowfall was only succeeding in adding to the gaiety with which the Parisians celebrated the advent of the New Year. In the early hours of the morning. when the crowds began to make their way home the mantle of white was quickly dissolving as the result of a rise in temperature, It continued to cling to the roofs of the houses but the streets became covered in slush, —Trans-Ocean,
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