The Detroit times., 1909-12-18
RMY or $4,000 IS
Ito TAKE CENSUS
IN 1910
ginety Million Manila Cards Have
Been Made and Population Of
United States Is Likely To
Prove Near That Figure
Big Job Is Ahead of Enumerators
Who Are Being Trained From
Washington.

n WASHINGTON, ID. C.. Dec IS
Uncle Sans army OF census takers
$4,000 strong, soon will be on the JOB
These men have most peculiar work
10 do. The collecting OF information
about the private affairs OF people who
don't want-to talk is part OF their
duties. The census enumeration OF
I l3l0 will be. a hardworked individual
n he wants 70 make good he muSt~he
= cross between a newspaper reports ,
and a book agent.
Many foreigners who cannot talk
English viii be visited In every com
munity... II will be mp TO the census
man TO get the figures be wants. He
must ask elderly spinsters their ages,
and Invoice the value OF the install
ment piano I'm the front parlors Or
peoples homes.
~ F. Dana Durand. director Of the cer
ous, lis just the man for rhc work,
Wasi7ington believes lie Will be tft
rommanding general Of this great cen
Dus-taking army. At present the army
Is being trained 80 do the work. ....
The men must be of moro than aver
nge intelligence, for the trail 81 the
census figures will make them ac-
Quainted with some strange features
OF the life in this remarkable country.
II will be necessary for some Of the
enumerators 70 board canal boats and
other craft along the numerous river
fronts or our cities and put the float
\ ing population through course or
questioning that win probably prove
X worse ordeal 70 the questioned ones
\ than~a session on the witness stand
The days work may include inter
viewing a man who can neither hear
nor speak. and when be is encountered
< the troubles OF the census men will
Increase
In some instances a deaf mute
enumerator will have TO be appointed
4 70 go over an institution for the dear
and dumb But the individuals az
aicted in this way will have to be
questioned by the enumerator the best
Y gay he can.
In the foreign quarters OF the cities
Ebe supervisors will try as far as pos
Gible to put linguists on the work. The
troubles OF the census man In some
or the foreign sections. however. may
4 be imagined by anyone who has any
acquaintance at all with the alien who
makes his home in America.
I'm " ntSuIe lHCiOAbAhUSPt tAANAN "-t.
/. be $40 supervisors. all under the direc-
ZION OF f. Dana Durand, director N
The census, his assistants and division
chiefs. These supervisors will be in
I trusted with the duty OF selecting the
enumeratory. or which there viii be
5000.
Of.this army no less than $4,000 Will
De detailed on the agricultural part OF
ahe work, for IT. is important 10 obtain
Correct figures In the farming dis
ltxicts
II is impossible 10 make some sort
OF estimate OF the increase in popula-
Non since the last census was taken.
and as the census bureau has had
made 90000.000 manila cards OF the
hind used IN making the count, Il is
likely that the population will prove
10 be somewhere near that figure.
These cards are particularly interest
ing, as they save months OF tedious
labor that was required in former
PEARS There is a separate card for
bach individual member OF the popula-
hon