The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-15
UNCLE SAMUEL
COUNTS NOSES
7sOOO Ennmerators Commence
Work Upon Census Through
out the Country.
STATISTICS TO Be COMPLETE
Wonderful Electrical Devises in Cen
sus Department Will Tabulato
pata-Work Will Require
About Fifteen Days.

washington, Apr. 15.-Today marks
,he real beginning of Uncle Sans
Great decennial task of counting noses
and taking stock, task imposed upon
him by the Constitution of the United
states. This morning, in every nook
and corner of the country, the $4,000
census enumerators took to the field
with pencil and pad in hand. When
their work is completed and the re-
snlts tabulated by the wonderful elec-
tric devices now in use in the census
office in this city Uncle Sam will know
70 what extent his family has increas-
ed during the past ten years. He will
know also how rich he is, how pros
porous he is, and how his farms, man
ufacturers. mines and quarries are
mring and everything else worth know
Ing about himself.
The actual collection of data will
continue fifteen days in the cities and
thirty days in the country districts.
Each enumerator is assigned certain
area to cover. First, the location of
the house the street and the city or
town will be taken. Then will come
the fun name of the person. his or her
relationship TO the head of the family.
sex, color or race, age at last birthday,
whether single, married, widowed or
divorced and number of years of pres
ent marriage. Then will be chronicled
the place of birth, trade or profession,
general nature of industry. whether
omploye or employer, ability to read
aud write, physical defects, whether
the home is owned or mortgaged, and
the Union or Confederate army or
navy.
Statistics will be taken I'm respect
TO all lines of industry, bat of greatest
Importance of all is the farm census.
New inquiries in the general agricul-
tura schedule are expected to develop
important data on the questions, whe-
ther the American farmer is holding
his own against the foreign born home
seeker in this country; the age period
when the hired farmland" becomes
an Independent farmer himself; the
age when the tenant farmer ceases to
be renter" and becomes an owner,
and also other vital facts relative to
the social and Industrial tendencies
among the millions of tillcrs of the
soil
The farmer will be questioned i'm re-
gard to his mortgage Indebtedness, the
acreage to be planted to crops i'm 1910
breed Of pure-bred animals, and acre
age of mixed timothy and clover hay
He will be asked to tell also the amount
of food purchased for live stock the
amount and value OF the live stock
the value of eggs sold, the amount OF
pasture land under irrigation and nu-
merous other things of interest and
value TO the student of farm condi-
tons. The new inquiries concerning
the amount of woodland may direct.
ly traced to agitation during he las
lew years in favor of forest CS.ensior
and conservation.
DIR. E. Dana Durand. the chief %
lhe census bureau, hopes to be able b,
June l to report the number of inhab'
ltants in the United States, probabl.
between SS,000,000 and 91,O00.000. 1
VIII take four months to cover thu
manufacturing interests and probabl!
lhree years to tabulate and study th'
vast undertaking. The completed tasl
VIII represent the labors of $4,000 mel
ana women enumerators and $50 reg
ular and 5000 temporary clerks in tn
census bureau. The census will cove
not only the United States but Hawai-
Forto Rico and Alaska. Nothing wi
pe iett undone to make the enumera
uon as correct and as complete as pos
slble' total of $14,000,0OO is to b
expended In the work. In this conncc
uoh 1t Is interesting to note that tn
sum OF $4,000 was thought sufficien
10 cover the cost of the first genera
census In 1890. This census covere
the original thirteen states and shove
population of 100000 whites an
100000 slaves.
CLAIM SWIMMING RECORD.