Smyrna times., 1910-04-13
ENUMERATORS WILL START
OUT QUIzZING ON FRIDAY
TAKING OF CENSUS WILL CON-
SUME MUCH TEDIOUS TIME
Robert L. Cummins and RAYMOND A.
PuseY Will Take Care of Smyrna
and Clayton Many Questions.

nOOeTt L. OumnlnS and Raymond a.
! PuseY Will Take Care of Smyrna
and Clayton Many Questions.
Robert l.. Cummins and Raymond
A. Pusey, the enumerators for Smyr-
ma and Clayton as we'll as all the
other enumerators who were recently
appointed, will start out next Fridav
to take the census. Each enumerator
will wear badge so that the house
holders will be able to identify
them. The work will be done in
thorough and systematic manner, as
the Government desires this to be
the most successful census since the
founding of the country. The popu--
lation schedule contains 80 questions
concerning every man, woman and
child in this country, whose total is
expected to reach the number of 80, =
900, 600. The questions are classified
under thirteen groups. The first is
location, and under this head the
enumerator must write down the
street, avenue, road, ETC., the house
number in cities or towns; and the
number of the dwelling house and
the number of the family, in the
numerical order of the enumerator' S
visitation. Under the subject
name - for each person whose place
of abode on April Is was in the fam
lily being enumerated, the census
taker is instructed to enter the
surname first, then the given name
and middle initial, if any lie must
include every person living on April
Is, 1910 and must omit children born
since that date.
Family Relationship and Business
The third group, relationship, -
calls for a statement of the reIa-
tionship which the person enum-
Grated bears to the head of the fam
lily in which he resides. The "per-
sonal description" group asks for
the sex; color or race-that is.
whether white, black, mulatto,
Chinese, Japanese or Indian; age at
last birthday; whether single, mar
ried, widowed or divorced; the num-
ber of years of present marriage
: and, under the subject of "mother
of how many children" the number
, of children each woman has had and
the number now living. The grour
relative to nativity" requires an.
swers stating the place of birth Of
the persons enumerated and also of
his or her father and mother. The
instructions are that if either is borr
in the United States, the enume
rator must give the State or Terri
: tory, but if of foreign birth he must
give the country. There are five
j questions touching upon "occupa
tion. 2" The first calls for the trad,
D or profession of, or particular kinC
, of work done by the person bein,
i enumerated, such as, to quote tn,
schedule, spinner, salesman, la
borer, etc. . The next inquiry call
= for a statement of the general ma
y ture of the industry business or es
tablishment in which the persol
9 works, as again to quote verbatim
6 from the schedule, cotton mill
. dry goods store, farm, etc. Th
- third wants to know whether or no
= the person is an employer, employ
or working on his or her own ac
count, and. under the fourth ant
D fifth questions, wheth r out of worl
on April Is, 1910, and the number o
d weeks out of work during the yea
1999
d Education and Other Things
u The questions in the education
e group are whether able to read,
e whether able to write, 4" and 'at
! tended school any time since Septem
e Der l, 1909. Information regard
!, ing ownership of home" will
n obtained by these questions Wheth
y er the home is owned or rented; j
: owned, whether free or mortgaged
l. and whether it is farm or simply
;. house, as in village or city; if
n farm, the schedule carries for pur
IS poses of Identification the number o.
IS the farm schedule. The schedul
J. further contains inquiries as t
whether the person enumerated is
survivor of the Union or Confederat
army or navy; whether blind in bot
eyes and whether deaf and dumb.
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