Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-06 | Page 2 | Census Takers Compile Annual Military Rolls

TAKERS COMPILE ANNUAL MILITARY ROllS ROllS' F Fears ears That Enumerators Are Impostors Set at I IRest Rest by Salt Lake County Assessor F Fears ars of many residents of Salt Lake county count that persons representing themselves themselves them them- selves es to be military census enumerators enumerators tors tars were impostors were set at rest today by the announcement of ot County Count Assessor A M l I. I L. L 1 Cummings that the military census Is being taken un under under un- un der his direction in accordance with I the tho state law un-I un I Complaints against the enumerators have havo been received li b by both the police and the federal officials during the last I I week and tho the latter tatter denied that an any federal cn census u in Is being taken The palice police po po- tlc lice took Into custody custod one enumerator hut but released him after alter a conference had been had with Assessor Cum Cum- I CENSUS IS ANNUAL Tho census according to A Assessor sessor Cummings Is taken annually by the county assessors of ot the state and Is required by the thc state militia law under under under un un- un- un der the following section Tho The county assessor of ot each county shall annually on or about the tho first t day of S September file tHe with the county count commissioners and with tho adjutant general a n. list of ot all att male residents of ot that county not exempt by b section 1 thereof who are more than IS 18 and less less' I than 45 years of or age All All able bodied I male citizens and all able bodied males I for tor foreign birth who have o declared their Intentions to become citizens more than 18 and lets less le s than 45 years of age who are aro residents of ot this state shall constitute the militia SEVENTY FIVE ON JOB Seventy five enumerators are in the field gathering the data Mr Cummings Cumming's Cummings Cum Cum- ming's stat stated ell today The census will probably be finished within a week he said with the exception of ot districts In the count county where data on farming lands i Is also atso being collected The enumerators have all alt been provided provided provided pro pro- vided with authorizations signed by bythe b bythe the county assessor and carry printed blanks upon which the information IsI is I entered I