Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-07-22
1910 national CENSUS
Nation VIII Have A School in Wash
ingtOn to Instruct Supervisors.
SUPERVISOR IN EACH DISTRICT
Work Of Counting People and Enumeraiing
Industries Calls for ExactiHg System.

The following dispatch from Wash
ington, descriptive of the work of the
cesnsus about to he taken, will prove
of interest to our readers. The dis
patch says Now that the president
has signed the bill providing for the
taking of the regular decennial cen
sus the census bureau of the depart
ment of commerce and labor is busy
ing itself with the necessary
preliminaries of the work.
The task of making count of the
people of the United States and taking
stock of its industries. is so great that
months of preparation are necessary in
order that the final results may be ap-
Droximatelv accurate. Already mem
bers of congress are announcing the
appointment of supervisors, and it is
the purpose of the head of the census
bureau to assemble these supervisors
in Washington; or. if that is not
practicable. in smaller groups at con-
venient places in the country, There to
be drilled in the work they will be
called to direct next spring
There will be one supervisor for
each congressional district in the
country, outside of the great cities
and these supervisors will be named by
the members of congress. for all dis
tricts that are republican. In the
southern states it is the purpose of the
president to consult as to these ap-
pointments with his political advisers.
to the end that men NAV be selected
who will perform satisfactory work
and he acceptable to the localities
where thew will be employed. This
will probably mean that in some of
the southern congressional districts it
Will he necessary To select democratic
supervisors
The great cites of the country will
not conform to this congressional dis
trict rule. One supervisor will be
named for each of these cities, as
heretofore.
The pay OF the supervisor will be
81 800 by way of salary and 81 in
addition for every group of 1000
names enumerated. This would mean
that the supervisor in a CITY of 500. 600
in habitants would be paid 81 500
and $500 additional. or 50. 900 in all.
The actual work of making the
count of the people will be done by
enumerators and each city and county
in the country for the purpose of the
count will be divided in TO small dis
tricts, with an enumerator In charge
of each The pay of the enumeratOrs
will he fixed bv the director If the
census In Washington. Nand will be
graded In what is known as class
one-the nay of the enumerator will be
from two to four cents for every in
habitant whose name he returns 20
TO 30 cents for each farm; 10 cents for
each barn containing live stock. when
not located on farm. and from 20 to
30 cents for each establishment of
productive industry
In what viii be known as class two,
the nav of the ennmerator will be
from 81 to 81 a dav one to three cents
a name Of inhabitants, and from Is
TO 90 cents for each farm or establish
ment OF productive industry which he
renorts
The enumerator In class three, OF the
sparsely settled district, willfhe paid
from So to So a day. according to
circumstances
There will be a census school In
every city of the country some time
during the fall OF winter All of the
assistants to the supervisors named for
that CITY will meot with him daily,
and, when necessary. an official from
the census bureau ia Washi gton will
be detailed to instruct the force The
information impaired AS the result of
these" schools will be handed down
to the enumerators when appointed
la numerous instances it is likely that
considerable number of the enumer-
ators will be named in time for the
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