Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-10
Planning the 1910 Census.

siderably lower the cost OF the thlr-
teenth census.
A change that is believed to be IN
the interest of accuracy and compete
ness will require the enumeration OF
population to be made as Of April 10
instead of June 1, as has been the case
heretofore. The reason for this is IN
teresting. The population of the UNITED
States is exhibiting more and more a
tendency to go to the seashore ana the
mount aims and the lakes to avoid the
hot weather, and it is going mucn
earlier than formerly. The result Is
that enumerators who are set to WORT
June / are certain to find many houses
deserted and their occupants gone
away for the summer. 1t is thought
April will be a much more satlstac-
tory date for this reason. AT that time
of year the exodus to the resorts Will
not be begun.
Provision will be made for $50 dis
trct supervisors and there will be
several thousand in the clerical force
in the census bureau establishment in
Washington. The number of enumer-
ators will be $4,000 AS already men
toned, the total force needed to do the
work will approximate 10000 The
clerical force will be under civil serv-
ice, but it is thought to be imprac-
ticable to attempt to make the enor-
nous force of enumerators subject to
the civil service requirements. Mr.
North considers it out of the question
to try to select the enumerators by
civil service methods, tho objections
have been raised by friends Of the civil
service to the proposition that It's
workings should not be extended to
census enumerators. 1t is apparent
that those politicians who are hostile
to the civil service see excellent OPP
portunfties in the selection of vast
body of enumerators in the old-fash-
toned way thru political preferment.
but there is unquestionably room for
doubt whether workable civil serv-
| Ice scheme could be devised to meet
| the situation.
| A five-year census OF agriculture is
a feature OF the Crumpacker bill. No
doubt, congress viii make provision
| for such, 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 badly if the census is
taken for agriculture but once in ten
wears. And in this connection, 1t may
be said that a five-year census of
population is something that the coun-
;, try Is likely to come to before many
years. Director North confidently ex
poets it. Now, a census of manufac
lures is taken every five years. The
same reasoning that prompted this will
hold good, Mr.. North believes for the
taking of general census every five
years, instead Of every ten years. The
country Is growing by leaps and
bounds, and long before the decennial
census is taken and the results made
known the preceding decennial census
IS utterly out Of date and its figures of
little use except in way of comparison.
| The mining census has been taken
separately from the manufacturing
census but the pending bill would have
the two taken conformity. The rela-
tons of mining and manufacturing are
so intimate that this is deemed neces-
sary
duced number Of volumes will con-