Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-01-28
CENSUS FIGURES COME
FROM WASHINGTON
Enumeration About Completed +,
Madison-Prominen FARMER
Sends Clipping On Subject

Madison county census takers
have completed their work, ac-
4 cording to District Supervisor r.
B. Terrill. Nothing will be known
of the population OF Richmond,
Berea, or any other towns or Of
the county as whole until fig
ures are given out by the Cen
sus Bureau at Washington.
1t has been announced from
! Washington that while it had
been hoped to complete tn enum-
Grafton work in the fourteenth
decennial census in IS days, Di-
rector Sam, L. Rogers, of the
Census Bureau, said the time
would be extended and that the
count Of the population of the
country would be completed re
CARELESS of the time necessary
4 His announcement was made as
the result for extension of time
received from Chambers of Com
ncrce and other organizations i'll
a number of cities which appar-
emily were under the impression
tina. Is days was the limit fixed
by law for the enumeration and
that any work not completed in
that time would remain tllEnish-
led.
j Director Rogers said the enum-
! Grafton had not yet been finished
lin any of the larger cities, but
that some returns had been re-
ceived from number Of them.
In connection with the taking
of the census and the questions
asked by the enumerators, d
prominent citizen of the county
and good friend of the Daily
Register sends in clipping OF &
letter to the Courier Journal re-
garding the census in Fayette
county, and he says in connection
with it:
81 have never asked you to
publish anything but Pm send
ing you a clipping which | wish
YOU would publish in the Daily
Register as | think it fits this
county"
The clipping reads as follows:
'"Quit Ye Like Men"
Over in Lexington we have bee"
taking the census. Each day the 10.
cal papers gave a story raciting IT,.
unexpected difficulties which wore
encountered. On Sunday they "lct
out" the secret. There was rca-
son. The general public suspicioncI
this all along, for there was really
no cause for difficulty in obtaining
proper and legitimate informatio~
which has been done many times be-
fore, without any trouble Now the
papers which have vigorously O.
poused the cause Of the census tax
ers, have unwittingly given cxrlana-
tory evidence.
Women have been employed to go
from house to house and have boon
"cruelly treated" Now it is right
and proper that women should b.
riven work in any field under heaven
where men nave gone before. By
the chivalry of man we are soon to
have full rights of citizenship. Il
would be well perhaps if some CT Us,
would ponder the sentence. sou :
we like men,"
The census takers Of Lexington in
dulged in inexcusable personalities.
They made "copy" not only for pr
: vate gossip but for newspaper sDac'
writer's of the most sacred and pr
vate gossip, but for newspaper spa,
writer's, Of the most sacred and PR
vate affairs Of households into whic,
they-armed with Government gu
tholity-forced themselves. Nothing
was too private or too sacred to b.
Haunted before the pubic.
Let it be said, in passing, for tf'
benefit Of these thoughtlesr o.
that the writer CT this artclc is &
woman, who, has at all times givcn
full information as to age, nation
atty, birth, ETC., 60 Red Cross car
vassers, census takers, etc, when
ever asked to do 81. She has not
nor perhaps ever will reach point
of sensitiveness in regard to the cues
ton.
She also believes that women have
rights-chicf of which should be to
"quit themselves like men,!
There appeared in Lexington
daily a "story" of the census pro-
gression. The sanctity Of the homo
of two modest, defenceless old ladies
| was invaded. Throughout sixty and
eighty long years they had kept one
beautiful, womanly instinct alive ir
their hearts-the normal right tc
| beautify their persons. They haf
curled their hair, and for this sir
they were sneercd at and deridcd II
| the public press, copy being fur
l nicboJ bx, fo,,o 4, Ia copc11c tolyorc TIL