The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-14

The Way they To things abroad j.
a constant source Of wonder 10 us
in this country On a Sunday night
recently for inst.nce, tho British
Government began and completes a
sfull census Of the United Kingdom.
Between sunset On Sunday and sun.
rise Monday every person then alive
in the British lsles. Gentle and Jew
believer and unbeheyer male and
female. married single and widowed
the homeless and the householder.
together with THE man servant, maid
servant and the stranger within his
gates, were all enumerated People
In this country who stop to consider
that In the United States months
are required 70 take q decerniai
census and millions OF dollars ex-
pended HR0n fhe work OF enumefs
tlon and compilation. will mo dnuf1f'
find 1t extremely difficult to under
stand how ia Great Britain the job
IL done In less than twenty-four
hours The explanation IL easy,
Preparations are made d week in adj
vance by giving out the schedules 10
be filled In AT an appointed hour
enumerators, each covering RE-
stFicted territory. simultaneously
begin to gather up these schedules
and do the work 0f counting all over
the kingdom Within twelve hours
thereafter the Job has been COM
pleted, with the exception of tab
Alation and compilation which fol-
low the enumeration There are no
general superintendent and the focal
registrars of births and deaths. fNho
accept their positions with the full
understanding that thc census work
~ comprised In their duties and en-
titles them 10 no extra pay These
registrars appoint the enumerators
who alone receive compensation for
their services. receive their REPORTS
and forward them directly to the
government at London That is an
there Is to Il, No red tape, no lu-
eratiye jobs for political hangers-on
no waste Of time and no waste Of the
public money
IN connection with this taking of
the British census, II Is interesting
10 note that the institution Is a com.
paratively new one In Great Britain
From the time, AT about the Begin
ming Of the Christian era, when the
Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus
ordered the counting or ALI the peo-
pie Of this empire, of which Britain
was then part, down to the early.
part Of the Nineteenth century there
was no census Of the Island King
dom. This is sal dto have been due
t0 opposition based on Scrfptural
grounds, the opponents founding
their contention On nose passages
IN the Old Testament which recite
how David committed d grievous sin
~ ordering Job, the captain oil his
host TO number Israel and Judah
ana how this census was visited hy
Jehovah with q pestilence which for
three days carried off the lsraeltes
by the ellis OF thousands Even as
late as 1853 this opposition was SO
strong that Il WAS only with the ut-
most difficulty that a census act was
passed by the Commons. ana then
n vas defeated by the Lords. an like.
ly 10 result in some public misfor
tune or IN an epidemical distemper
moi until half century later could
the two houses of Parliament agree
III moving 4 census to determine thb
population at the United Kingdom
and the means Of subsistence. Thc
first imperial census did not take
place until as late as 1871, forty
years ago, and then the entire work
was done in the compass of sin.
slo night, as was the case with the
og The last census