The Belding banner-news., 1919-12-03
CENSUS TAKERS
WILL SOON PAY
YOU A VISIT
ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS TO BE
ASKED AND ANSWERED WHEN
THE ENUMERATOR CALLS


Every ten years Un-le Sam must
know the size of his family, as well
as lot of things concerning how the
individual members thereof are get
ting along.
The question which this quizzer win
put to you may be new in some in
stances and possibly "None of no.
6ody's business" but this particular
Uncle is mighty inquisitorial when
ever ne thinks 1t necessary to acquire
knowledge which may be of value to
every other member Of his family.
FOR many years at similar inter-
walls but in different years the State
made practice of taking a census,
but it was found to be an unwarrant-
ed activity and very expensive, and
really unnecessary because IL was
simply a duplication of the work
done by the government.
The regulations governing this de.
cenniel Quiz entirely protect the in
/ dividual from embarrassments be.
cause of revelations made. The in
formation is only made public in a
collective way, thereby concealing the
facts which may have been given re-
garding his or her personal affairs.
/ The only danger which confronts
the Individuals from a failure to tell
the whole truth, insofar as the oues-
toner may inquire. The enumer-
ator who might reveal information
which was thus secured will suffer a
penalty far greater in severity than
could the damage resulting from such
a revelation possibly be to the person
thus exposed.
A feature of the coming census
which will be new, and probably novel
to some, will be the employment of
women for the work. This comes
from the extension of full citizen
ship TO them. and also because of a
decided shortage in capable men
who Will accept appointment.
In Michigan the industrial activi-
ties are so vast and varied, and the
wage scale so high as to command the
attraction of about every available
young man who otherwise would be
fitted for the duties involved in an
enumeratorship. The work must be
done within limited period and as
wages go, the pay is not an induce
ment to leave regular employment.
even for the honor which goes with a
government appointment.
There is not the slightest doubt but
that the women enumerators will
prove not only efficient, but also
faithful and dependable officials.
They are taking their new response
! bilities seriously, and those with suf-
ficient intelligence TO meet the re-
quirements. viii have pride in doing
their work well.
1t will be we'll for the merchant
the farmer, and the employer to take
an early inventory of himself and his
activities, because the censss taker
will call for lot of information
which cannot be provided without
data and it is probably true that
much of such information is not of
character which the average mer-
chant or farmer has been in the
habit of making matter of record.
The county has never before exper-
fenced period when it was more
necessary to "Know where we are
at" than since it has emerged from
: the World war. The unrest IN which
: the World finds itself and the depend
: ency thereof upon Uncle Sam makes
, essential a complete and accurate in
E ventory of his resources, individually
E industrially and commercially. This
/ is necessary to ascertain 10 what eN-
: tent We Snall Dc luSSlAcu III ASAfhne
others after we have provided fol
: ourselves.
: Therefore every citizen should
y strive TO help. the census taker IN Sc
. curing every variety of reliable data
e that our Uncle Sam may know def
: nitely of his liabilities and assets
t The enumerators for this city ar,
I as follows: First ward, Arthur
: Brown; Second ward, Mrs. Francis J
: Magin; Third wsard, Martin Enge-
S mann. Mrs. Leo Shindorf viii take
E the census for 0tisco township.
They will start out and begin Z
: ask questions on Friday, January
5 and will visit every home in the city
: in their work which viii be part O
a one of the most gigantic works OF
!. compilation and statistics ever under
: taken in the history of the nation.