The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-12-26
$4,000 ENUMERATORs
START JANUARY z ON
next U. S CENSUS
Enumerators Will Spend Two
Weeks in Cities and a Month
in the Country Districts,
Gathering Data.
SURPRISES LOOKED FOR
IN CITY POPULATIONS

orators are expected to begin the
work of gathering statistics for the
1920 census of the United States. On
that day the great machinery which
has been grouped for this week will
be set in motion and at the end OF
two weeks it is expected the greater
part of the work will be completed,
and the work in the cities will be
complete.
Here is what one writer says about
it: An inventory, Samuel L. Rogers
terms it; and the greatest ever taken
since the world began. An inventory
Of, all the mills, factories, furnaces,
farms, forests and oil and gas wells
in the United States. -,
Every wheelbarrow and every To-
comotive will be in the schedules;
every sheep and horse; every house
and field; every orchard and hotel.
The wealth summed up will be
larger than was ever before written
on paper. In the figures, that will
fill eleven huge volumes, will be num-
bered the inhabitants of the country
men, women and children. All of
them; as with most of the property.
Enumerators will visit every dwell
ing, apartment house, boarding house,
hotel, tenement and farm, will get
the name of the occupant thereof.
To facilitate the taking of this cen
sus next month the country has been
divided into some 400 zones. which
conform so far as possible, geograph-
ically, to the congressional districts.
The enumerators in cities will COM
plete their task in two weeks. A
month has been allowed those who
work in the country because they
have to travel from farm to farm and
often long distances. No cabin in
the mountains, no shack on the plains
or in the forests will be missed. AND
while enumerators are taking the
census in the forty-eight states
others will be taking it in Alaska
Porto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa
and the Panama canal zone.
The population and agricultural
census will be taken first; that bear.
ing on manufacturers and forestry
will be taken later by another force
of enumerators, numbering about
1900 men. We hope to begin sup
plying the newspapers with bulletins
as to the population some time ir
June. Large cities will then learr
how much they have grown since
1910. States, later, will get the same
kind of information.
There will be a good many surpris
ing facts. We have estimated oul
population at from 102,000,00O tt
11O,O00,OO0. The figures may show
that the war has drained this country
of far more aliens than most persons
have thought possible. We have beer
losing to Europe ever since 1914, ant
few immigrants have been coming in
Sex, although John Doe looks ant
is dressed like a man, must be pu
down, together with his color and hi
age at his last birthday. Is he single
married, widowed or divorced? HI
must answer.
The population census will enabl'
us, by a system of grouping, II
know for considerable time to SOM
just how many carpenters, iron work
ers, laborers, machinists, physicians
ministers, lawyers, clerks, teacher
and so on are in the United States
The centers of alien population will
be disclosed; and also of the colore'
population The facts will be o
great value to students, economist
and business men.
Enumerators who take the popu
lation census in the rural district
will at the same time take the censu
of agriculture. Richard Roe, let u
suppose, is a farmer. Answers to tn
inquiries made of him will reveal al
of the large and small particular
concerning his land and the result
of its cultivation.
He will tell who owns the Ian