The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-04-08
OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE
DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS

| ISV, the census OF the Un1te0 Statt
begins. 1t occurs every ten years.
| 1t is the basis of the distribute
among the states of representation /
the National House of Represents
tives.
1t Is also the means by which tn
United States government ascertain
the increase in the population, agr
culture, industries, and resources G
the nation.
1t Is required by the Constitutio
and by the act Of Congress.
Census for Statistical Purposes Onl
The information sought will be us
ed solely for general statistical pur
poses. 1t will neither be publishes
nor used in any other way to disclos
facts regarding any individual or ell
terprise.
| The census Is not, never has been
and can not be employed to obtain in
formation that can be used in an,
way in the assessment of property TO
purposes of taxation or the collection
of taxes, national, state, or local; TO
deportation proceedings; extraditiol
measures; army or navy CONSUMPTION
compulsory school attendance; child
labor law prosecutions; quarantin,
regulations; or in any way to affec
the life. liberty, or property of an!
person.
1t has nothing whatever to do with
the detection, arrest, prosecution, OF
punishment of any person, for any
cnCnnntnH of 9
law, whether of city, or state, or the
National Government. or of a foreign
nation. .
Census Inquiries Defined by Congress
The census inquiries are defined by
act of Congress. The questions on
the schedules are framed by the Di-
rector of the Census in conformity
with that act. They apply to all per-
sons living in the United States on
April Is, next, the Census Day." The
same questions are asked about each
person. All persons must answer all
the questions.
The Questions Regarding Persons
The census law, with reference to
population, requires that the enum-
orators questions shall, for each in
habitant, call for:
"The name, relationship to head of
family, color, sex, age, conjugal con-
dition, place of birth, place of birth
of parents, number of years in the
United States, citizenship, occupation
or not employer or employee,
and, If employee, whether or not en-
ployed at the date of enumeration
april Is, 1900, and the number of
months unemployed during the pre-
ceding calendar year (1909), wheth-
err or not engaged in agriculture,
school attendance, literacy, and ten
ure of home, and whether or not
survivor of the Union or Confederate
army or navy; and the name and ad-
dress of each blind or deaf and dumb
person.
The Questions Regarding Agriculture
The same law, with reference to
agriculture, requires that the enum-
orators questions shall call for:
THE name, color, and country of
birth of occupant of each farm, ten
Ire, acreage of farm, acreage of wood
and and character of timber thereon,
7alue of farm and improvements, val
lie Of domestic animals not on farms
Ind ranges, and the acreage of crops
planted and to be planted during the |
'ear of enumeration (1910), and the |
acreage of crops and the quantity and |
'alue of crops and other farm pro-
lucts for the year ending December |
hirty first 1909) next preceding the
Badges Worn by Census Enumerators
Census enumerators wearing
'adges with "U. S. Census 1910"
tamped on them, will go from house
o house, and farm to farm, begin.
ing April Is. They are not to be re-
arded as spies, detectives, police
1en, constables, tax assessors, or Of
GERS Of any city, county or state.
hey do not represent any other de-
artment of the United States govern
lent, or any foreign nation.
None Affected BY Their Answers
No person should hesitate, neglect,
r refuse to answer all the enumera-
or's questions. He only asks those
ecessary to fill the schedules which
re required by law. Nothing that
told him can in any way be used
, the detriment or damage of any
erson, or his family, or his property.
Replies Strictly Confidential
Replies to enumerators are, and .
lust be, held by the Census Bureau
| tsrict and absolute confidence.
All the U. s. Census officials, SUI
ervisors, supervisors clerks, enum-
'ators, and interpreters, before en-
ring upon their duties, are obliged
} take solemn oath not to disclose
~ information they may obtain, ex-
,pt to the Census Bureau, and vio-
ton Of the United States law in re-
lrd to this oath means a 1000 fine,
: Imprisonment for two years, or
9TH, in the discretion of the Court.
Penalties for Failure to Answer
If any adult person refuses or will
lily neglects to answer an enumera
RS questions, or, if any person will
lily gives answers that are false, he
she can be arrested, carried to
urt, and fined up to 500. Keepers
hotels, apartment houses, boarding
lodging houses, tenements or 9TH
buildings, in which persons make
cir homes. must help the enumera-
r when asked, or they will be liable