The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-18

schedules, the piece-price method of
paying for machine work; the omission
of the hand. household and neighbor-
hood Industries from the manufacture
ers', branch of the census and reduc-
ton of the size and number of copies
! of the final report.
! The larger part of the thirteen mill
lions will be expended in the fiscal
year which began July / last and
ends June 30, 1910 the first of the
three years within which time the
thirteenth census must be over, the
temporary clerks and special agents
discharged. and the permanent census
bureau with its office force of 700
clerks again performing its annual in
ter-censal functions Fully half of the
total to be expended will be Washing
tons share and the remainder will be
distributed all over the country. Wash
ington needs the money and is pre-
pairing to absorb the millions into its
circulatory system.
Congress has limited the thirteenth
census to four general subjects: popu-
lation, agriculture, manufactures and
mines and quarries. The director is
authorized To determine the form and
subdivision of inquiries The inquiry
as to population relates to the date
April 10, 1910; that as to agriculture
concerns the farm operations during
1909 and calls for an inventory of farm
: equipment April Is, 1910; that rela-
tive to manufactures and mines and
quarries is for 1909.
The cnumerators will carry only the
population and agriculture schedules
April Is. 1910. Special agents will be
sent out with the schedules for the
4 manufactures, mines and quarries
data. There will be fully $4,000 enum-
orators, of whom about $4,000 will
i carry both the population and agri-
culture schedules as il is estimated
that there are fully 100000 separate
farms in America, with farmers mum.
| berIng well up into a score of mil
| lions In 1900 there were many moro
billions of dollars of fixed capital in
vested in agriculture than there were
in manufacturers, strange as it may
seem. And the farmer is getting bet
ter off all the time: his mortgage in
debtedness is decreasing fast: his
taxation is small as compared with
the urbanite's burden: and he has
taken to automobile riding on a large
scale.
This is the heydey of the farmer.
and Old Doctor u. s. Census Is going
to diagnose him pretty carefully for
fear that with ease comes evil. that
is, the neglect of those essentials
which have made his prosperity pos
sible, even if ii is not permanent be-
cause he could not stand prosperity.
Census taking every 10 years is n
tremendous task. 1t is the greatest
single operation undertaken by Uncle
Sam, with the exception of the PAN
anna canal work and the assembling
of an army in time of war The Am
erican census is the largest, costliest
and most accurate of any taken by
the civilized nations. Its methods are
the most modern and its equipment
the most complete. The census bureau
forces comprises, first Director e.
Dana Durand of Michigan, who. al,
though only &c years old. is older than
most of the generals commanding the
forces in the Civil war. and he is, too,
n statistically SCARED hero. veteran
in government service, and likely to
prove the most practical and efficient
director connected with any of the
past censuses. Then there is the
assistant director. William II. Will
loughby, of Washington. ID. c.. former
secretary of state OF Porto Rico. Next
in rank are the five chief statisticians:
William C. Hunt i'm charge of the |
population division: lie Grande Pow
ers, heading the agricultural division: ]