Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-05-25
GET READY TO ANSWER
The Various Census Enumerators Will
Start Out One Week from Today,
June l.
CARBON COUNTY HAS SIX
Some Of the Questions That Must Be Asked
and Answered Old Maids Shouldn't
Be Offended.

In Carbon county, as in every othe
portion of the United States. the yariou,
enumerators are preparing to 60 forth
and interrogate the people in furtheranc,
OF the federal census act providing fol
the decennial count of noses. In repl,
to request for information addressed
by the chairman of the county centra
committee to Supervisor Richards d
Butte, The Picket yesterday received /;
communication officially confirming the
Carbon county appointments as recentl,
published by this newspaper. The
county has been divided into six diff
ferent districts, with one enumerator fol
each district. The names of the enum
orators and their assignments are as fol
lows:
G. u. Sawyer Of Joliet-Clarke Fork
township.
~. w. Smith Of Joliet-Joliet town
ship.
a.. 2. Sichler Of Chance Red Lodge
township, including the city Of Red
Lodge and the precinct of Roberts.
i. q. Orr Of Red Lodge Red Lodge
creek township.
w. r. Crockett of Roberts Reno
and Bowler townships.
G. Il. Gilbert Of Joliet Saltwater
township.
] The enumerators have already received
their commissions, their supplies and
their portfolios, and will start out on
their rounds one week from today Or
June i. The enumeration in this CITY is
to be completed within two weeks and in
the country districts on or before July /.
The blank schedules contain questions
which some people may think prying,
purposeless or excessive in number.
However, they must all be asked and
answered. They include inquiries about
age. color, race, date Of birth, conjugal
condition, number of years married,
place OF birth, year Of immigration to
the United States, naturalization, occu-
patton, number of months not employed
school attendance and ability to read or
write. In addition, inquiries will be
made about the ownership of homes and
farms, farm acreage, value and quantity
OF farm products, amount of livestock.
ETC.
In some cases, particularly among
antiquated single women otfense will
doubtless be taken at the question relat-
ing to age, but this interrogatory must
be answered, as age returns penetrate
and elucidate every other branch of
statistical knowledge. They show where
child labor is prevalent and where the
proportion OF persons able to support
themselves is large or small. They re-
veal the great number of colorcd children
and the short life Of the negroes under
present conditions. They make it posi-
BILE to ascertain whether the average
length of lite IS increasing or decreasing,
how many men the nation contains who
are capable of voting or of bearing arms.
and whether the relative number of
children is increasing or decreasing.
Ia Mohammedan or cmi-civilizcd
countries like India, householders are
often unwilling to answer the question
the scx of persons in the house,
but IN civilized countries, where the
sexes are regarded as on an equality.
such unwlllingness does not appear The
answers to the questions show that in
nearly all cities the females outnumber
the males and THAI the same is true of
most OF the states along the Atlantic
coast. The belief is widespread that
taking the world in general there are
more females alive at any given time
han males, and that if it were not for
immigration there would be more fe-
males in the United States than males.
But census statistics show that we can
not explain the great excess Of males
over one and a half million) in the
United States by immigration alone, for
when the foreign born are left out of ac
count, there are still above 100000 more
males than females.
Some mothers may shrink from stating
he number of children they have had
md the number who are living But
rom the answers to these questions, the
country will learn whether the native
American population is holding its own,
II whether, as some have claimed, it is
'eing gradually supplanted and dis
placed by the children Of recent immi-
,rants.
In the light of such explanations, and
'nly few of the most important ques-
ions have been touched upon, it may
perhaps be clear to the public that no
question has been ordered by congress
II has been asked by the census office