The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-30
CENSUS TO START
ABOUT APRIL Is
THIRTY-TWO QUESTIONS
TO BE ASKED EVERY
PERSON.
Total of 2.S8O.OOO.OO0 Interroga-
tories to be Put by Census
EnumeratorS.


be asked 50 questions about their
intimate and personal affairs on
or after April -, 1910. That will
be 1850. 100000 questions, il the
country lives up to the advertised
90.000,000 population.
Some OF these questions Will
make some people mdd, and the
mortality among census enumer-
aturs is expected to be about the
average For instance. when Col.
Todhunter Is asked whether he IS
wflite. black. plulatto. Chinese,
Japanese or Indian, he may get
peeved and insurge some. Brand
er. Matthews. Richard Bartiloldt
and Chuck Connors probably
will take umbrage when askeG
whether they speak English.
One question is. Whom do
You work for" Replying to this,
YOU are not permitted to say my
wife" or the Standard Oil Co,
You will also be expected to in
form the government how nlan'
,-eeks Won were ont OF work in
1909 and whether vou had jOt
lpr:l II. 1910.
Experts Pass on List
The population schedule which
Will be carried by the enunera-
TORS during the thirteenth decen-
NAL census has engaged FOR tbs
past few months the Joint con-
sideration OF Assistant Director
Willoughby. VIM. c. Hunt, chief
statistician for population and
Prof. VIM. B. Bailey. Yale in
Structor in political economy. who
later was commissioned StrperviS-
or of the census for the state OF
Connecticut.
The schedule has been approx
ell BY Census Director Durand,
ami in its final form will be 1G
by % inches in size. printed front
and back. with 80 lines on each
side. one for each person enumer-
ated. The government printing
office Will print 100000 copies.
SO as to- give each OF the $50 sill
Dervisors of census OF about g.
COO assistants. who will enumer-
ate the population in April.
The paper on which the Sche-
dule will be printed will be first
quality white writing. % by -
inches. 81 pounds TO the ream. the
total weight being 10000
pounds. The schedule paper is
very heavy and will stand great
deal of handling
Total of 80 Questions.
The 32 questions are classified
under - groups. The first is 40
cation and under this head the
enumeration must write down the
street. avenue, road, the house
number in cities or towns, and
the number OF the family, in the
numerical order OF the enun1era-
tors visitation.
Under the subject Name" for
each person whose place OF abode
on April Il was in the family be-
ing enumerated in the census tax
er is instructed to enter the sur
name first, then the given name
and middle initial. il any. He
must include every person living
on April Ia. 1910 and must omit
children born since that date.
The third group. relation
ship calls for a statment OF TIE
relationship which the person
enumerated bears to the head 81
the family in which he resides.
The Personal Description
group asks for the sex. color OF
race-that is whether white. BLACK
mrlatto, Chinese. Japanese or In
whether single. married. Widowed
or divorced: the number of year.
OF present marriage; anil, under
the, subject of 'Mother of how
many children" the number o
children each woman has had anC
the number now living
The group relative to "Nativ
Ity' requires answers stating til,
place of birth of the person emu
merated and also of his or hel
father and mother The instruc
tons are that If either is born il
the United States. the enumera
tors must give the state or terri
tory. But if OF foreign birth h,
must give the country
The two questions regardin:
Citizenship" apply to foreign
born persons only. and call for ;
statement of the year of immigra
ton to the United States. and
in the case OF adult males whethe
nauralized or alien.
Language Statistics Wanted.
The next question requires III,
enumeration to ascertain whethe
the person is able to speak En-
glish. or. If not to give the Ian
o11ape. SDOl<en