The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-07-19

| enumcTatOrs TO count noses In every
town and hamlet, as well as in every
city of the nation. The population
the ensuing ten years and upon them
will every town and city between this
census taking and the next one in
1920, have to stand Upon the popula-
tons thus recorded will the whole
country base its estimates for. ten
years as to the individual standings
and in many ways the merits of va
rious cities and towns.
A town which does not get credit
for its actual and total population in
the census reports, suffers very Sc
rious injustice and injury during the
entire ten years while those reports
hold good as official authority. 1t
therefore behooves every city and viii
lage to see that it gets full credit for
its entire population when the census
Is taken at a later date acts as Sc
we're jolt to the town and its interests.
OllOlh hSNNA LOO DCCl ublS W uOu-
estly get credit in the census reports
for its total population. This is caused
by reason of the fact that much of
Norfolk's actual and normal population
is found in additions just outside the
city limits. Being outside the limits
of the city, these additions can not be
counted and tho npnn1n rpCiHincy a 20
can not be counted in the census emu
meration. Yet the residents of these
outlying additions are as much part
OF Norfolk's population as any person
living within the official boundaries.
They are engaged in business enter
prises and pursuits of various kinds
in Norfolk, enjoy all of the privileges
given to other citizens and are, in
practically every phase of the city's
life excepting with regard to the Off
cial census, part and parcel of Nor
folks makeup. The fact that these
people are not counted in Norfolk S
population works very serious injus-
tice and injury to Norfolk as a whole.
Every person in Norfolk, directly or
indirectly, suffers from that injustice
and that injury.
In less than three years the govern.
ment will take another census. Nor
folks population as found in this cen.
sus report should place before the
country the true population of Nor
folk as a community, rather than the
population stripped of all outlying ad
ditions. That is but fair to NorfolB
as whole. To allow the population
to so forth in the published census re
ports without taking steps to count
residents of the outer edges of the
, community, would be to work injus
tice upon the town.
There are several hundred NorfolR
, people living just outside the city lin
, its. On South Thirteenth street there
is section of the city which is never
, counted in the official census reports
, because the city limits make an extra
ordinary twist and put just outside q
large number of houses and the people
; living in them.
In the southeastern edge of the juno
ton there is residence section which
ought in all fairness to be counted as
a part of Norfolk because it honestly
is part of Norfolk but which, by 6
- peculiar turn of the official bounda
ries, has been put outside the limits
an official census count. The Rome
Miller eating house is included in thi.
out of town patch, together with othel
= houses that ought to be in.
- In the northwestern corner of the
= city there is a small out-of-town aret
;. that by all that is fair ought to b,
inside the limits.
q But the largest outlying section o
: Norfolk which ought to be brough
G within the city limits is Edgewate
. park, northeast of the town on the cas-
q of the Northfork river. This has com,
to be a thickly settled portion of tn,
- city and there are several hundred
Il persons in that district who ought t,
v be a part of the city proper.
There is no reason why these out
4 lying districts should not be glad t
r become part of the city. A numbe
- of benefits would accompany such
20 move on their part Qncluding water
n works, fire protection, street lights
h sidewalks, good streets, sewer conneC
i. tions, etc. And there is no reaso
"a why Norfolk should not ask them t
n join the balance of the community 70
= the welfare of all concerned.
a Three years is not a long time an
procrastination would easily allow tn
q. time to slip away so quickly that tn
70 census might be taken once agai
in without the actual population bein
IN counted. Every person in Norfolk
H.. to- ~. Ill.