The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-22
Applicants Will Be Tested at
Local Post Office on Febru-
airy S by the Local Civil
Service Board.
QUESTIONS ARE NOT
THE MOST DIFFICULT
And the Examination Can Be
Passed by Person With Or
binary intelligence Good
Pay for Work.

On February 8, 1910, examinations
for positions as census enumerators for
tho 1910 census, will be held at the
post office under the supervision Of
the LEGAL civil service board, but the
examination will not be a civil service
affair. Undoubtedly there will be a
largo number to take the examination
- the position pays from So to SO a
day, according to the ability of the
enumerator. The work lasts 10 days
In the city and 80 days in the country
districts.
Tho applications of those who antici-
pate taking the census must be in the
office of the district census supervisor,
w. H. Teman, at Connersville by JAN
uary %, as a later date will leave no
time tor the officials of the district to
make provisions for the applicants The
appointments Of enumerators will be
made strictly on the merits of those
taking the examination, as shown by
the grades which they make. In max
Ing the appointments, politics will be
0tTICtIy elluludLeQ.
At All County Seats.
There will be similar examinations
conducted on February 5, in all of the
county seats of the district.
There are three rates of compensa-
tion. the first known as the per capita,
the second at the mixed rate and the
third as the per diem. In the first and
second ratings there are five gradings
and In the last there are seven grad
ings.
In the first, or per capita rate of
compensation, the list shows that the
ehumerators shall be paid at a rate of
from to cents for eacn person exam
ined. For each farm examined the
enumerators will receive from 20 to 80
cents, according to the grade. The
gradings in this instance are (A) 20;
OBJ 22a: Co %; CD 271A; (E 30
Thirty cents will be paid the enumer-
ators for each establishment of pro-
ductive industry, inspected and the
rate for each barn or Enclosure con-
tanning live stock not on a farm, 10
cents will be paid.
In the Mixed Grade.
Those who worI as enumerators in
the mixed grade will be paid as fol-
lows: Per diem from 81 to 81; for each |
inhabitant, from 2 to 3 cents: for each |
farm, from Is to 20 cents, according to
the size and time it requires to exam
Inc the farm: and 20 cents for each es-
Establishment Of productive industry, no
matter what the grade.
The rates of compensation for EMU
merators on strictly a. per diem salary |
for an eight hour day is as follows: So, |
$3.50. 81. $3.50. $500. $3.50 and Sc.
The examination is to be held under
the auspices of the civil service board
In this city, purely for the purpose of
preventing fraud, such as one applicant |
copying the answers of another When
the 1900 census was taken, the policy |
was to send each applicant list of the |
questions to be asked and allow him to
ill the blanks out at his home. 1t
was afterwards found that this meth
cd was not the best as many of the
enumerators cheated.
The questions upon which the appli-
cants are to be examined, are in no
sense hard ones. A man with ordi-
nary intelligence should be able to pass
the examination with a good per cent
age. The questions to be asked relate
to the applicant and also thoroughly
quiz him on the work in question.
The census blanks which successful
applicants will be provided with are
intricate in some respects. A thous
and and one questions. which some of
those to be enumerated, never dreamed
about will be asked by enumerators.