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Title: The Boy With the U.S. Census Author: Francis Rolt-Wheeler Produced by Steven desJardins and Distributed Proofreaders. [Illustration: THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. The welcome of New York, the gateway of the New World, to all races and peoples of the earth. (_Courtesy of U.S. Immigration Station, Ellis Island._)] THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUS BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER [Illustration: The Boy With the U.S. Census] With Thirty-eight Illustrations, principally from Bureaus of the United States Government November, 1911 To My Son Roger's Friend HAMILTON DAY PREFACE Life in America to-day is adventurous and thrilling to the core. Border warfare of the most primitive type still is waged in mountain fastnesses, the darkest pages in the annals of crime now are being written, piracy has but changed its scene of operations from the sea to the land, smugglers ply a busy trade, and from their factory prisons a hundred thousand children cry aloud for rescue. The flame of Crusade sweeps over the land and the call for volunteers is abroad. In hazardous scout duty into these fields of danger the Census Bureau | ||||
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