The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-16
TO MAKE CENSUS CORRECT.
SUPERVISOR BLUM SAYS THE PEO-
PIE MUST HELP MAKE TT 50.

| The Supervisor Says Tie Is bending
His Efforts to secure Every Name
and TO See That Every House in
the City Is visited = Card
From Those Who s'car They Have
Been Omitted VIII Bring an Emu
! merntor 10 Their Boors-CitiHenS
Must Cooperate if Full Justice TO
| the City Is 10 BE Expected, he
Snys-The Supervisor Makes an
Appeal for This Cooperation.
Every house in the city of Savannah
will be visited by the eaumera,ors before
| final returns are made to the director Of
the census. Every resident of the civ
will have full opportunity 10 give in his
name, and every assistance IN answering
the questions the regulations require 10
be asked. If. after this, there are any
whose names are nor counted, it will he
their fault, and not that Of those-n charge
of the census of Savannah"
In reply to question by a Morning
News reporter Supervisor Henry Blum,
Jr., made this statement yesterday, after
noon:
Il shall begin al once" he said, ito
make a careful examination of the port
foHos that have been turned in by the
enumera tors, with their reports upon
houses and sections where they have ex-
perienced difficulty in securing desired in
formation. L snail compare Inc returns
with the accurate map of The city and
list of the houses l have in my posses
sion, and where any house has been
omitted, or where fun returns have not
been gathered, l shall require other visits
from the enumerators for these districts"
Moreover, I make a special and per-
sonal and official appeal to every resident
OF savannah who has any fear that his
name has not been included in the list
to apprise me of his fear so that l may
examine the records and, if his fear prove
to be wei! founded send an enumerator
10 him. The citizens of Savannah should
be willing to go to this small amount of
trouble for the good of the city, so that
the city's real population and not some
smaller figure shall appear in the final
and official returns of the census.
II know THAI every house in the city
Will be visited, and | am in a position to
prove that this will be the case. We
cannot accomplish impossibilities, and
they should not be expected. With every
house visited, some of them several times.
with appeals 10 the citizens to assist us,
with every readiness to do anything and
everything that is reasonably feasible we
cannot be held responsible for anything
more. If, after all this, the census of
Savannah's population shows it be small
er than it should be or really is, the citi-
zens of Savannah must bear the blame.
1t cannot properly be laid at our door"
There 10 4of1 IL
the De SOLO had not been visited and the
names of its large number of permanent
guests, officers and servants secured. Su-
perVisor Blum stated that as a matter of
fact the hotel had been twice visited by
the enumerator in charge of the district
in which it is situated, that on both oc-
castOns he had been told that there was
no one in the Office at the time who was
in a position to give him fully the infor-
nation he sought and asked to call again.
The enumerator had further engage
ment with the managers of the hotel
yesterday, and in the afternoon, when the
supervisor vas speaking, he thought II
very probable that the names of those
living at the De Soto had been gathered.
There is of course ground to fear that
the citys population will not be repre-
santed accurately by the census. There
are so many who fail utterly to realize It's
Importance or who, realizing, care moth
ing about it. to make it possible for every
individual of the city's population to be
included in the returns. 1t is this that
makes the supervisor ard his assistants
largely dependant upon the people of the
city and without their aid the city WI
not, in all human probability, be done full
justice.
No one need feel that because the enum-
orators have made their returns that his
name, If omitted cannot now be placed
flna Ill A 1~A
visor will bring an enumerator and the
name will be counted Supervisor Blum is
himself very anxious that this sort of as
sistance should be rendered him and is
bending every effort to make the census
full, accurate and complete.