Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-30
CENSUS TAKERS Job
22O Enumerators for District
of Columbia.
EXAMINATION is, SIMPLE
Supervisor Will Select From List
of Eligibles.
WOMEN CAN TRY FOR PLACE
Broughton Outlines His Plans for
Organizing Force-Win Exer-
else Discrimination.

The simple test which candidates for
the 900 census enumerators' places in the
District will undergo February does
not take away the supervisors right
under the census law to designate suita-
BILE persons for such positions, Supervisor
Broughton pointed out today.
1t is designed. he said. to aid the super
visors in the exercise of that discretion
and to enable the census director to intel
ligently use the power of approval Of the
supervisors designations conferred upon
him by law
THE census will be taken, not by the
census bureau officers or the supervisors"
he said, but by the enumerators. 1t is
very we'll understood that President Taft.
Secretary Nagel and Census Director
Durand all hold the supervisors response
BILE for the enumeration.
Good Men Wanted.
There is no doubt. therefore, that our
first and most important duty is the
selection OF honest, capable and active
persons to make the count. They are
the ones who come in contact with the
people and get the facts.
There cannot be anything of greater
scientific value to this country than &C
curate statistics the basis of study
Of the existing conditions regarding our
population. agriculture, manufactures and
mines and quarries.
"All persons, unless specifically dis
qualified, are entitled to apply to take the
test. Only those under eighteen years
of age and over seventy. and those who
have not become citizens of the United
States. are barred. Otherwise. all per
sons, regardless of sex and political affil1
ations, are eligible
ut is left to my judgment whether it is
wise to appoint women in the District.
They can do the work, I have no doubt,
especially in certain parts of the District.
There were good many employed all
over the country in the twelfth census.
No Applications After January IS.
'sThe time for closing the consideration
Of applications is January .. Those re-
ceived after that date will have to be ig-
nored Applications should be addressed
in writing to me at this Office and not to
the census director.
II will send inquirers the necessary form
and instructions concerning it. Afterward
l will send those on the list, prior to the
test, a set of directions for filing out the
to come well prepared. Nothing could be
fairer or better calculated to insure
satisfactory applicant passing the test.
THE test itself need not deter any one
Any person with common sense and
common school education can pass it.
All it consists of is giving the candidates
sample population and agricultural sched-
ules. upon which are to be written in
the proper columns the required details
which are found in printed descriptions
in narrative form. of typical families and
farms supposed to he In a district. There
will be some instances requiring the eA-
ercise of judgment to decide whether d
given entry should be made under one
column heading or another. You can see
how simple and elementary it is.
The test will be held all over the coun-
try and in every supervisor district Feb
ruary 5. There will be several places
in each district for taking it. One place
would be insufficient. 1t would not hold
all the candidates.
LAS supervisor l shall have the direc-
ton of all in the District of Columbia,
and the test examination at each, no mat
ter under what official agency 1t is held.
will be that sole and simple one pre-
scribed by the census director.
Rating Of Applicants.
Il am given until February 90 10 rate
the papers in very simple way, and to
gain an idea of the qualifications of those
rated as having passed. Next l will for
ward the papers of the successful candi-
dates, with my recommendations or des-
ignations. to the census director. He will
IL satisfied that suitable persons have
been selected, give his consent to their
appointment. and they will be commits
stoned. The middle or latter part of
March should see everything settled, and
the selected and commissioned enumera-
tors will be sent more circulars and books
of instruction relative to the interpreted
ton or meaning of the questions on the
two schedules.
April 10 the census army will move
forward in the enumeration.
Certainly the federal census taking in
as necessary and as honorable as jury
duty, and, as all good and useful citizens
do not hesitate to respond to the call for
such duty l therefore ask the same high
grade citizenship to come forward and
help me have the census taken accurately
and eXpeditiously.
LAS President Taft has said, the pay is
not large, but the work is worth doing
we'll, and some day we shall all feel proud
In the consciousness that We had part,
however humble in taking this census.