Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — WASHINGTON GETS READY FOR GIANT 1920 CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON GETS READY FOR GIANT 1920 CENSUS.

With all but a few of the supervisors for the various census districts appointed and the task of selecting the large army of enumerators well under way, Director of the Census Sam L, Rogers, of Washing,ton, announced Saturday that final plans for the fourteenth decennial census were practically completed and that January 2, 1920, the date i#t for beginning the enumeration, would find the census bureau "all set for the grind.“ 2isS=^= “ Nearly 90,000 persons will be engaged in the work of collecting the facts and figures about Uncle Sam’s gigantic family. Of this number approximately 85,000 will be engaged in the field work, while the balance will comprise the Washington office force where the tabulation, classification and statistical work will be .done from the information secured by the field force. One of the large temporary buildings recently vacated by the war department has been turned over to the census bureau for its use during 'the census period.