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Dateline: Washington1970 census likelyto disclose newtrends, challenges% BURKE WALSHWASHINGTON —ISC? — Interest is mountingsteadily in the findings of Ihe 19?© census, which willbe available by the end of this year. Some over-all preliminaryfindings may be ready in a few weeks.Bl BKE WALSHTttese every-ten-years nationalbead counts reveal a greatdeal raare than tbe total papsiattonof tbe United States, whichis' expected to be about 205million this time. It stows greatbroad treads in national life.While it suggests same challe^esit does sot. of course, providethe answer.Information that has comeout piecemeal over the last fewmonths, and expected to be confirmedm fee final report, gives an indication af bamthings are.THE tread toward seborban living noticed forsome years is con tinning apace, and three-quarters ofthe population growth observed in the last decade wasin metropolitan areas, vtrtaally all of it outsidecentra! cities.ftis fact, it is already agreed, will lead to afarther redlstrietisg of election areas to choose membersof ihe US. Howe of Representatives and statelegislatures, wffii a resaltisg increase in representationfrom suburban districts and a decline in representationfrom inner cities. It probably will lead alsoto a loss to ceBtral cities a federal and state aid foodsdistributed on a popaMoit basis.Hw farm pepoiation declined M percent to thelast decade. Tlie Bomber of Negro farm workers wentdown 5§ percent.Blacks m%rated is large ntmibers to centralcities, wbere 55 percent of tie black population nowlives. Tie wMte popelatiao in- central cities declinedby more than 2 million in the last decade, while theblack popoiation in these areas increased by 2.5mWktm.Megr© families earning'more than $8,000 a yearincreased from 15 percent in 198© to32 percent m 1868,and ttee earning more tkan 315 ,(XX3 rose from 2 to ipereeBt. "The narafeer of Redoes at prof ess iona] amifeetaieai enqA^mort more titan doubled, while tbeHserease m fee masher of «nftes was 41 percent.DESFIfE these gate, the report is expected tostow that the average Ne^o family earned less thantwo-thirds wfaat the average white family makes; thatNegroes to tbe last decade were three times as likelyas whites to be poor, more likely to be unemployed,less likely to be in college.Tbe Census Bureau has received manycomplaints from city officials awl chambers of commerce,protestim that preliminary reports showingpopulation ieelises in tieir localities Just have to bewrong. Bat the Census Bareao points out that localsurveys themselves can be deceptive; that increasedautomobile registrations can mean more two-carfamilies and not necessarily more people; that morebousing sniis can mean fewer people living inindwidiial homes, wStb young people striking out ontheir own; that increases is school enrollments insome areas can mean decreases in other places.Some of the areas facing a loss of representationand aid funds point out that tbe i960 Census neglectedto cotmt some 5.7 million persons, abort 3 percent ofthe population- But Census Bureau officials expect the1970 Census to be the best and most complete ever.US, appeals decisionupholding objectorWASHINGTON — (NC)— Justice Departmentlawyers have appealed to theSupreme Court to overturn aUS. District Court judge'sruling that the draft law is unconstitutionalbecause itforces Catholics to choosebetween their beliefs orprison.In a decision handed downin favor of James F. Me-Fadden of San Francisco,Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli of theninth district court threw outan indictment brought againstMeFadxJen in February forfafling to report for induction.Judge Zirpoli said thatunder the first amendment'sguarantees of the freeexercise of religion, thegovernment cannot force aman to act against bis conscience.AS a result, the judgesaid, McFadden's conscientiousobjection to theVietnam war based on his applicationof traditional Catho'icjust war principles shouldbe allowable under the law.Since it is not, the law is unconstitutional.The Justice Department'sappeal will be broughtbefore the high court when itreopens in the fall. Observersbelieve the McPadden casewill be tied to two other conscientiousobjection cases onthe court's docket.Catholic moral teaching'— reinforced by a November,1968 statement by the U.S.bishops — traditionallyallows objection to a givenwar on the grounds that it isunjust. American law, however,only allows for absolutepacifists to qualify as con-.-scientious objectors.Hi M«mlBy FATHER JIMD83BWBl Father!FEATURE SECTIONM**t*er omtf son. Skim ami FatherSister Mary ©ens* sheik «m iH*k stf M«tywrest Convent.H.V.. wiffs her son, ftftherl Jacobs, resident ehopfain at 5$.b Hs*pi*el io gN,Y. Sister Mary DMHSC$m&d th« Persh Vkftors offm«ne(v!crt« erdei oHer theel hm fewfaondl Pets*, fatherJoa*bi 42. was r«t«e «f two Divw*eWord s**ttinqs«s. at Fertys-kwrg.Ohio, and at T*ef«*y, IS., bsfste hisns officers snGraduate Crores woa!d be ableto know feow mud$ knowledgeaod wjsai kjjsd of competenciesfeh qThis soarate, I am sure.Gemle Reader, I&e 3 wildbeserk scfeeine. I wculd onlypoint oat that it is tw more insanethan xfea! currently goes onat higher education k wouldcertainly guarantee everythingthat tbe present highereducational enterpriseguarantees as far as a stadem'sdeveloping his capacity to Uttnkand to express bimseif. It wouldreqaiire macfa less in ihe way ofbureaucracy and human suffering,and it would very likelyfacilitate learning rather thanimpede it.THE PRINCIPAL assumptionon which my academicgrove is based is the notion thatpeople learn only because theywant to learn and not becausethey are forced to do it in orderto obtain grades, credits, and degrees.If somebody does not wantto learn, then there isn't muchpoint in his coming to the forest.save perhaps to encountermembers of the opposite sex alsowandering through the trees.And there is no point wasting histime or the faculty time in anythingwise if the student's onlyreason to come to college is tofind a mate. I am willing toexpend time and energy of myfaculty members only on thosewho are interested in learning.I suspect that would includemost young people, and if thefoolish constraints of the presentsystem o£ higher education wereabandoned, most of them woulddemonstrate far more interest insilting under the tree talkingwith their professors than theydo now.But to repeat, eves if considerablenumber of them neverventure into the forest save atnight, the educational effectswould certainly be no worse thanthe present system of highereducation, and Ute studentswoald have no pem up animosityand anger which would makethem want to born down theforest.