Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-19
The Census.

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each 10 years at great expense ant
with the utmost care and attention tt
detail, not for the purpose of giving u:
something to brag about, but that the
business interests of the nation may
have information, accurately and dis.
passionately compiled, on which te
base future operations. The present
Congress has passed a census bill pro.
viding for the collection of data relat.
ing to the population, agriculture
manufactures, and to mines and quar-.
ries of the country. Enumerators will
visit every place of habitation and pro-
cure the name, relationship to head OF
family, color, sex, age, conjugal con-
dition. place of birth of parents, mum.
Der of year in the United States, cit
izenship, occupation, whether or not
employer or employe, and, if employe
whether or not employed at the
date of enumeration and the number of
months unemployed during the pre-
ceding calendar year, whether or not
engaged in agriculture, school attend
ance, literacy, and tenure of home and
whether or not survivor of the Union
or Confederate army or navy; and the
name and address of institutions, shall
include paupers, prisoners, juvenile de-
linquents, insane, feebie-minded, blind,
deaf and dumb, and inmate Of benev-
olent institutions.
The schedules relating to agriculture
will show the color and country of
birth of the occupant of each farm,
tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of
woodland and character of timber
thereon, value of farm and improve
ments, value of farm implements, num-
Der and value of live stock on farms
ard ranges. number of domestic ami
mails not on farms and ranges, and the
acreage of crops planted and to be
planted during the year of enumera-
ton. This is TO be repeated in 1915 and
every ten years thereafter as far as it
relates to acreage in farms, crops and
ranges.
The information CLEANED in regard to
manufacturers and mines and quar-
ries is to be equally as complete and
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corning manufactures is held in the bill
to include turpentime and rosn, the
two great products of the pine lands on
he eastern slope of the Atlantic divide,
ard provides further for complete re-
ports on the quantity, quality, methods
of manufacture, marketing, sources,
methods and extent of the industry.
An elaborate organization, headed by
a doctor, is provided for, that mo per-
son afflicted with tuberculosis shall be
appointed and that each applicant for
appointment shall accompany his or
her application with certificate of
health from some reputable physician -
1t is also provided that more than one
person shall not be appointed from the
same family. These enumerators will
receive from two to four cents per in
habitant. between twenty and thirty
cents for each farm, ten cents for each
Enclosure containing live stock but not
on farm and between twenty and
thirty cents for each productive in in
dustry reported, all according to the
dication of the Director of the Census.
He has the option of paying between
one and two dollars per day with an
extra allowance of between one and
three cents per name for each inhabi-
tant with other subjects assigned in
proportion.
Penalties are provided for enumer-
ators or others who convey any of the
information CLEANED to other than the
census department, and information is
used only for statistics, so that manu-
WHO 90 not OeSlre TO nave
their business known may feel safe
in complying with the provisions of the
law. Indeed it is unsafe not to comply,
as penalties are provided for dim
quents
The census bill passed by Congress
provides for complete census of the
inhabitants and resources of the Unit
ed States. The organization for the
purpose is elaborate, but adequate and
well arranged. The enumerators, sup
ervisors and other officials will be fair
ly compensated and the people will be
properly safeguarded. President Taft
mas let it be known that civil service
rules are to apply wherever consistent
with the work at hand and that, es-
pecially in the South, the appointments
are to be made without reference to
political affiliations.
The supervisors of the census for
Maine are to be Hon. Morrill, N. Drew
of Portland and Hon. Elmer P. Spof-
ford of Deer Isle. who have been rec