The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-27
ENUSiERATORs' TEST EASY.
Census Director Durand Sets Febru-
 ary 5th as the Date

Census Director Durand Sets Febru- ary 5th as the Date
 Washington. Dec 27.-Any person of good Judgment. who has received an ordinary common school educa- tion, can readily and easily pass the test to be given applicants for cen sus enumerators' places on Saturday, Feb 6th. the date finally set by U- 5. an announcement from the Census Bureau today. This will be a con forting assurance to the several hum dred who are believed to be contem- plating applications for the places.
 It was emphatically stated at the bureau that the test will be an emil rently reasonable and practical enc, similar to that applied to applicants at the Twelfth Census It win con- sist of fllling-out a sample schedule of population from description. in narrative form, of typical families; and, in the case of i. enumerators whose work will be in the rural dis tricts. they will be called upon to of agriculture. from information fur nished by the Census Bureau
 All persons. whether women or men. who may desire to become Gen. sus ennmerators must be citizens of the United States: residents of the supervisors district for which they wish to be appointed: must be not less than IS nor more than 70 years
 
 the work: must be trustworthy. hon. est and of good habits: must have at least an ordinary education and must be able to write plainly and with req sonable rapidity-
 Those who can comply with these requirements are invited to put in their applications, as there will be at least 5000 enumerators places to be filed by the middle of March in pre- paration for the numeration begin ming April l5tn.
 Application forms, with full in- structions for filling-in. and complete information concerning the test and the method of appointment. can be secured by writing to the supervisor of census for the supervisors district in which the applicant lives. All ap- plications. properly filled-in must be filed with the supervisors not later than January 25th as any received after that date cannot be considered.
 President Taft's ringing address to the Census supervisors, from the Eastern states. in conference here, also for all the other supervisors. for the candidates for enumerators' places, the politicians. and the world in general. He said:
 number about a third of the force upon which we have to rely to take the census expressed by opinion about the character of your duties
 nen wrote a letter to MT. Durand. did not write that letter just for the fun of having it published. wrote it to be a genuine instruction to you, and I hope you will all ob- serve it. I know if you pursue it. it will be an easy course for you. If you don't observe it. then win ob- serve you I know, of course. there will be pressure
 Many of you-most of you-have been recommended by Congressmen. a ha ~f Congressmen will come to you and expect, because they did recommend you. that you owe them something in the way of selecting the men as their Congressional election. You have got to use sense and discretion You have got to select the men that you think will do the work, and if l wish you to remove them, just as will remove you if I catch you do- ing political work. It is business. T am not quarreling with the Con- all the aid he can get to get back his place, and l am not obJecting to the efforts in that direction. But you are the gentlemen that I want to make responsible, through Mir. Durand. for taking this census. and you are the gentlemen rely upon. and if I can't rely upon you. then I am going to dtrc ct Mir. Durand to let me know about it, and I will see if I cannot help him out with somebody else
 .'I take great pride in this census. believe we can make it the best census that has been taken, if we take 1t as a census. and do not use it and refsrsd it as incidental to some thing else.
 Now, you are not we'll paid. This Is not a business that is going to en- rich any one of you; but it is a busf- ness that Is worth doing well. and I hope it will turn out SO that when the census is taken we shall all have pride in the fact that we were a part in taking it. however humble
 T am glad to meet you. gentle men, I would be glad to say this same thing to your fellows but hay ing this opportunity of delivering A little lecture, could not restrain my self from doing so- I mean every word I have said"