The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-25

transacting his own business. Thus no individual working for a corpora tion. either as an officer or otherwise, should be returned as an employer.
 A person employing domestic ser- wants in his own home, but not em- ploying any helpers in his business, is not to be considered as an employer. But, on the other hand, a person who is the proprietor of hotel or boarding House and employs servants in running that hotel Or boarding house, should be returned as an employer, because he employs these servants in his busi- ness.
 An employee is defined as any person who works for wages or salary and is subject to the control and direction of an employer. The deciding test is whether the person receives a wage or salary and is subject to another's di- rections. If so, he is an employee, whether he be president of large corporation or only a day laborer; kind; and whether he be employed by his own parent or by another The term employee does not include law yers, doctors, and others who render professional services for fees, and who, in their work, are not subject to the control and direction of those whom they serve. It does include actors, professors. and others who are engag- ed to render professional services for wages or salaries. domestic servant should always be returned ss an em- ployee, even though as previously ex- plained, the person employing a dom- estic servant is not always returned as an employer.
 OTHER SCHEDULE QUESTIONS
 Persons who have a gainful occupa- tion and are neither employers nor em- | l. ~s on their own account. They are the independent workers. They neither pay nor receive salaries or regular wages. Exa ples of this class are farmers and the owners of small es- tablishment who do not employ help CTS; professional men who work for fees and employ no helpers; newsboys; and, generally speaking, hucksters, peddlers, bootblscks, etc
 It is stated in the instructions that the purpose of the schedule inquiries as to unemployment issto ascertain the measure of enforced unemployment that is, the extent to which men want work and can not find it..
 The schedule question, ''home rented or owned,'' is defined as meaning whether family owns the home in which it is living or rents it. If a dwelling is occupied by more than one family it is the home of each of them, and the question should be answered with reference to each family
 A home is to- be classed as owned if it is owned wholly or in part by the head of the family living in the home or by the wife of the head or by a son, or a daughter, or other relative living in the same house with the head of the family. IL is not necessary that full payment for the property should have been made or that the family should be the sole owner.
 Every home not owned, either who'll ly or in part, by the family living in it or by some member of that family should be c,assed as rented. whether rent is actually paid or not. All owned homes which are not fully paid for, or upon which there is an incum- bfance in the form either of a mort gage or of lien upon which judgment has been hed in a court, are to be re- ported as mortgaged
 The inquiry as to whether the person enumerated is a survivor of the Union or Confederate Army Or Navy is to be asked as to all males over 50 years of age who were born in the United States and all foreign-bor males who imnigreted to this country before 1865.
 The inquiry as to blindness applies only when person is either totally or partially blind in both eyes, so as to be unable to read even with the help of glasses. Only persons who are both deaf and dumb are to be report ed under the question whether deaf and dumb" The question concern ing school attendance any time since September l. 1909, relates only to per sons of school age, between and 21 years old. Tn case any person outside that age limit actually attended school. the fact is to be noted on the sched- ule.