The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
KANSAS COMAENT
IELP THE ENIIMERAToRs

HELP THE ENUMERATORS.
| When the census enumerators call
at the MONIES of the people for the pur-
pose of gathering statistics, they should
De treated courteously and fairly. The
enumerators Aor the government will
not try TO ascertain what property you
nave Tor the purpose of taxation. They
are sent out to get information which
VIII be of the utmost value to the gov
| eminent, ana what ever benefits the
government benefits the individual
members OF the government.
The fact that President Taft has is
SUED proclamation asking that the
people give the enumerators all reason
able assistance in obtaining informa-
ton, should make it evident how i'm
portant this Information will be when
gathered and tabulated.
For some reason the people, in the
past, have trided with the enumera-
tors They do not realize how i'm
portant Is the work. The enumerators
are unfairly dealt with in many in
stances and their task is hindered by
people who should aid instead of hin
dering. To fail to give every assistance
10 the enumerator is folly. Imperfect
information 6etracts from the value of
the statistics which are vital to the in
tei1gent management of the country.
+ IT you give wrong information and
hinder the enumerator. remember it
will be ten years before your error
can be corrected.
Accurate and complete census rec
ords are essential because in conduct
ing the affairs of this country the men
at Washington depend solely on the
information gathered by the enumera-
tors. They pay no attention whatever
to the work of the state enumerators.
The enume-ators: dare not make i'm
proper use or the information given
them. This is covered by the law 1t
IS possible that they will ask questions
which you consider of no value, but the
questions they will ask are set down
for them by government officials and
are necessary Wichita Eagle.
MONEY MAD.
One associates money madness with
the maelStrom of Manhattan; with Wall
street, where we of the outside picture
men selling their health, their souls,
their very lives, for money and still
more money. Perhaps that picture is
exaggerated, but certainly no one eX-
poets to find this passion for gold in
the heart of a 17-year-old boy of hum
BILE parentage. But that it may find
story of Fred Young of Douglass, Kan.
This 17-year-old boy fired a bullet into
his brain, for what seemed to him the
sufficient reason that he was broke.
Without money, life is not worth liv-
ing. he said. When one thinks of how
little he knew of life, the charity which
protects fools drops its mantle over
him. Money is essential of course,
under the present plan, but, after all,
it is one thing among many, and not
the most important. The youth that
this lad sacrificed to the money god
seems worth more than great wealth to
older men. And money enough comes
with proper effort. Also the happiness
of a 17-year-old boy shouldn't require
much. We lately read the boyish ex-
perience of a man now well to do, or
better. He hoed the weediest kind of
corn Of a nelghbor for two long days, |
for which he received a dollar. The
next day he got up at o'clock a. M,
and walked twenty-five miles to see a
circus. He made the dollar suffice for
time of his life. And most men have
had similar experiences, or have even
lacked the dollar without finding life a |
burden, indicatingit that money doesn't |
matter so muchs unless you think So
Atchison Globe. ssfa
NEED FOR A CORRECTION.
Golfers Weekly points out that
William Allen White of Emporia print |
sus takers in the Fourth congressional |
district was published by the local pa |
per before the examination papers had |
reached Washington. That nOnStrOuS
story was actually published in the |
Emporia Gazette and we have watched |
the paper carefully to see the state |
ment taken back. It was not true of |
untrue. William Allen White is one |
of the great men of the country but |
he was small enough to publish a story |
like that and not correct it when he |
found it was untrue. The statement |
was published two months ago and it |
comes out in Golfers this week. Will |
Mr.. White have the decency and fair |
Journal.