The Daily Courier Connellsville, Pa. 3-3-1910 Slavs Of Country Raise Objection Start Movement To Secure Registration In Census of Birthplace Are Not All Hungarians The Slavs of the country, nearly a million strong, are displeased because no arrangements have been made to count them in the census. P. V. ROVNIANEK, President of the Slovak League yesterday called a meeting to be held next Monday in Pittsburg, at which the Slovak, Croatian, Wend? and Serbian nationalities will be represented and at which arrangements will probably be made to be enumerated according to their proper national designation instead of as "Hungarians", which is what the census office proposes to do with them. It is likely also that a committee will be appointed to go to Washington to confer with President Taft and see if something can be done. The blanks of the census office have already been printed and the demand of the Slavs for enumeration has been passed upon and rejected by Census Director E. Dana DURAND. Mr. ROVNIANEK yesterday received a letter from Sen. Geo. T. OLIVER enclosing a letter from Mr. DURAND in which the reasons why the Slavs could not be counted were stated at length. Mr. OLIVER and Mr. DURAND thought that nothing could be done. The Slavs, however, think differently. According to the law, as stated by Dir. Durand, the census enumerations are required to record the place of birth of each person, but not his "nationality". There are some 12 different nationalities of persons living in Hungary, and representatives of each of these living in this country will appear on the census record as "born in Hungary." The Slovaks alone number 800,000. Unless a change can be secured they will be counted by careless statisticians who may hereafter consult the census records as "Hungarians." It appears to the Slavs that the Magyar race will thus get credit with being represented in this country by three or four times the actual Magyar population.