Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — School Enmerators Should Be Given Help. [ARTICLE]

School Enmerators Should Be Given Help.

The schopl enumeration for Rensselaer is now being taken. Tbe enumerators should have the earnest and hearty co-operation of every tax payer in the city. Every omission of tbe name of a person within the ages of six and twenty-one Is a loss of between two and tihree dollars to this city. This loss will have to be made up by local taxation. The leee money Rensselaer gets from tbe school revenues of the state, the more money must be raised by local taxation. The reason the people of Rensselaer should assist the enumerators Is comprehensively set forth by Superintendent J. N. Study, of Ft. Wayne, In an appeal to the people of that city. Wha he says applies with , equal force to Rensselaer. i “It Is to the Interest of every citizen that this census be full. We do not wish any to whom We are npt legally entitled, but we do wish that every one to whqm we are entitled shall be placed upon thq list, In the School Enumerators Ehould, be givcontroversy last year over the enumeration of certain cities our enumeration was subject to rigid Investigation and found to bq within the legal requirements. It was alqo foqnd,. how* ev?r, that notwithstanding the efforts of> the enumerators a considerable number had not ;been reported who ought to have been upon the list. "Please aid the enumerator? this year by furnishing to them promptly ana cheerfully the information they ask. The work la arduous and needs to be done accurately and as it must b e completed by the first of May, the enumerators ought not to meet with any unnecceasary delays. It is to your interest that they are working. The rank of Ft Wayne among the cities Of the state ami also a proper share of the revenues depend upon this census. Please aid us in making It as accurate and large as the district conformity to the law will permit’ '•