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Show THE CENSUS ENUMERATION, Tho census questions have been criticised criti-cised and ridiculed by nearly every paper in the country. Now that the census-taking has been begun, and people peo-ple learn the manner in which their answers are recorded, very little, if any, objection is raised to replying to the interrnfratorieg of the enumerators. In their first day's work tho Suit Lake enumerators met with no trouble whatever. what-ever. They were everywhere politely received, arid nearly all answers were cheerfully and unhesitatingly given. ' The principal objection raised by the press has been in regard to giving information in-formation concerning diseases, indebtedness, indebt-edness, etc, the supposition being that these, facts would become a matter of permanent record. Such, however, proves not to be the case. The ccusus oilicials at Washington take no note of individuals. They simply record facts. Tho name of a person is of uo value to them, but tho fact that he has a chronic or an Incurable disease, tho result re-sult of climatic conditions or occupation, occupa-tion, is a matter of general interest. The names are not recorded, but only tho results of the inquiry, and those not in writing or printing but by a series of holes punched in a piece of cardboard. This new method of enumeration is very remarkable and curious and to the uninitiated un-initiated these cards mean nothing whatever, but a man who is familiar with the key can pick up one of these cards and can toll from the round holes punched therein what ward the person lived iu, whether he was white or col ored, married or single, where he w.is born and when, the nativity of iiis mother and father, their occupations and tho cause of. their deaths, and whether ho was affected with any disease dis-ease and if so what. Tho position of the holo punched iu tho card gives it its moaning. |