Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-12
YANKEES LOSING
GROUND IN IOWA
Census Returns Show Great In
crease In the Foreign Born
Population
cH,LpREN,s PARENTS ALIENS
cH,LDREN's PARENTS ALIENS
Large Percentage Of tho Children In
tho state Are Offspring Of Foreign
Born Parcnts--ccnsus Cards Ex-
posed to Smallpox Give cIcrks a
Scare.
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Des Moines, May IL. While the
census from none of the counties OF
tho state Is complete as yet tho re-
turns are reported in sufficient num-
3bers to show some interesting condit-
ions. The returns from eighteen coun-
ties show that while the native born
Inhabitants between the ages Of 10 and
.1s years greatly exceed the foreign
born between the same ages. the ma
tive born over forty-flve years of age
are less in number than the Foreign
born In four of the counties and IN
the other fourteen counties the excess
Of the native born"is not so great.
There is an abundance OF room ior
the expert staistician to get In his
work and draw conclusions. For the
ages between 10 and Is years In the
eighteen counties the foreign born
population Is 533 people and the ma
tive 26,471, while for those over 40
years of age the foreign born popu-
ilation Is 10,052, and the native 23,-
249. Thus the foreign born between
the ages OF 10 and Is represent l.9
per cent of the total population OF that
aye while the foreign born over forty
five years of age represent little over
80 per cent OF the total population for
that age. But the native children
many OF them are the children Of for
this
son there Is argument that the yam
kee stock in Iowa is fast disappearing
and that really we are foreign race.
Another interesting bit Of informa-
tion gathered from the census returns
ia that while there are frequently re-
ported from counties more males than
females of the tender ages OF under
10 years, there Is In nearly every case
more females than males OF the ages
over forty-tiye.
Recently there has been an inquiry
from the auditor OF Appanoose county
asking what to do with a lot or caras
that had been exposed to the small
pox. 1t is presumed that the employees
in the census office will be rather shy
about handling the cards from that
county. 1t seems that a small part
of one township In that county has
been subjected to smallpox and the
assessor had the record book and lot
Of the cards in his house when MS
family became afflicted with the
smallpox. The auditor was anxious to
know what to do with the cards. Sec
retary Davidson, of the executive
council, has written him to be sure ana
see that they are thoroughly fumi-
gated before they are sent In. Recent
ly one Of The young ladies working In
the census department had break,
ing out on her hands and at once the
entire department got scared. They
wanted all the cards fumigated. Not
TIL then did II occur to them that
the census department Is the focus
point for all the diseases In the state.
The enumerators go to every house IN
the state and it is presumed that IL
there is any contagious disease any
where their business will carry them
to 1t tho it may escape being trans
mitted thru the census cards. Even
other things than disease are found
and they do not always indicate good
housekeeping. for recently when a
package Of cards was opened the clerk
discovered and killed an even dozen
bed bugs. He thinks that none es-
capped him.
Politicians see a political move IN
the testimony of e. c. Finkbine or this
citS before the senate committee ON
Interstate commerce to the erect that
Iowa people are satisfied with their
rates. Mr.. Finkbine testifying imme-
diately before the governor appearing
before the committee might readily be
taken as an effort to counteract the
statements before they are
made, Mr.. Finkbine, tho it is not
known to everyone, is interested In the
lumber business in Minnesota which
state gets better rate than Is had in
Iowa and it is claimed that Mr.. Fink
bine's Des Moines and Iowa business
gets the benefit of the Minnesota rate
While Mr.. Finkbine may be perfectly
satisfied because of the rebates the
lumber men whose business is confined
strictly to Iowa are not satisfied.
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Wright is expecting to see some very
valuable information given out from
the new experiment station that the
government has established under
five years lease with the state college
at Ames. The new dairy building there
which is four story building and
about 14Ox16O feet, affords abundant
for experimental work.
Under the agreement with the govern
ment an expert chemist and an expert
are to be stationed at
Ames. to do experimental work. This
has been made under Ed.
II. Webster the new department dairy
chief at Washington who is graduate
OF the state college. One OF the lines
of experiment viii he along the line
of the fiavuring of butter. The flavor
ing is very vital matter In the mar
ketable value Of the product and to
kta flo or ho