The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-24
TAKING CENSUS IN 1910.
Army Of 10000 Men will be Employ.
ed In Gigantic Task.


in 1910. The task of making the
enumeration of the 9O,O00,OOO people
In the United States. Alaska, Hawaii
and Porto Rico and in Guam, Samoa
and the Panama Canal Zone will be
one of enormous proportions. Il will
be the most gigantic work of emu
meration that has ever been attempt
ed in this or any other country, and
II is intended TO reach the acme of
correctness and thoroughness. Not
merely a count and compilation con-
cerning the population alone, IL will
include census of agriculture,
manufactures, mines and quarries.
Director s. N. ID. North, Of the
Census Bureau, is already getting
ready for the thirteenth census. lie
has been planning on 1t for year
or more. II was hoped by Mr.. North
that the Crumpacker bill to pro-
vide for the thirteenth and subse-
qucnt decennial censuses would be
passed the last session of congress.
But it failed of enactment along
with numerous other measures of
Importance by reason of the rush at
the close OF the session and the anx-
iety of the congress leaders to hurry
the session TO an end.
A census of the Philippines will
not be included in the coming decen-
nial census for the reason that one
was taken in 1908. and 1t is doubt
ful whether the Philippine govern
ment would care to bear the cost of
another enumeration SO soon.
Important changes in the taking
and compilation of the census and
in the method of publication of the
returns will be made For one thing
cd. Tho twelfth census required ten
volumes. II is the expectation OF
Director North that the thirteenth
census will be published in six vol
rmes or seven at the outside. The
mortality statistics of the last CEN
sus will be dropped. They were
roand unsatisfactory as collected at
be last decennial census. The re-
dUced number of volumes will con-
ST lcrably lower the cost of the thir-
,sonlh census.
\ charge that Is believed to be in
'h, interest of accuracy and COM
,ic.cncss will require the enumera-
non Of population TO be made as of
ipgil lj, instead of June 1. as has
1e5n he case heretofore. The rea-
son FOR this IS interesting. The pop
.-..Ca OF The United States is ex-
'ia't.ng more and more tendency
% 20 tho scashore and the noun
.a:rs snd tie lakes to avoid the hot
weather, and /, is going much earl
.rr ten iormCrlv The result is
thnt onuncrators, who are set 10
Sofk Jrae ], are certain to find
ma hanscs deserted and their oc-
cupants conc away for the summer
4, ~ hought April / will be q
muci more satisfactory date for this
rcacon. At that time of the year
ne exodus 20 the resorts will not be
begun
Provision will be made for $50 dis
irlct supervisors and there will be
sevciTl thousand in the clerical force
in Inc Census Bureau establishment
in Washington. The number of emu
meratogs will be $4,000. As already
mentioned. the total force needed Ia
do the work will approximate 10000
| The clerical force will be under civil
service, hut IL is thought to be im-
practicable 10 attempt to make the
enormous force OF enumerators sub
| jcct to the civil service require
ments. Mr.. North considers II out
| of the question TO try to select tho
cnumerators by civil service meth
DDS, though objections have been
| raised by friends of the civil service
to the proposition that its workings
| should not be extended TO census
enumerators. 1t is apparent that
| those politicians who are hostile Ia
the civil service see excellent op-
portunities In the selection of vast
body OF enumerators in the old
fashioned way, through political
| prefermen;, but there is unquestlon-
ably room for doubt whether q work
| able civil service scheme could be
| devised TO meet the situation.
A 1ye-year census of agriculture
is feature of the Crumpacker bill
No doubt. Congress will make pro
vision for such a census Secretary
Wilson believes such a census should
be had. Such is the progress being
made by the United States in an
agricultural way that he finds his
department loses its reckonings bad
ly IL the census is taken for agri'
culture but once in ten years. AnC
in this connection It may be sale
that fve-year census Of population
Is something that the country is
likely to come to before many years
! Director North confidently expects
| II, Now, census of manufactures
Is taken every five years, The same
reasoning that prompted this will
hold good Mr.. North believes, for
the taking of general census every
Ave years, instead of every ten years
The country is growing by leaps anC
bounds, and long before the decen
| f,I 10 "a nd ha