Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-08

prove of great practical and scien-
tihc value.
1t insures greater accuracy and
completeness in the returns, as the
heads of the families, who are gem
orally the most reliable sources Of
! information, are themselves given
sufficient opportunity in advance Of
the enumeration to examine deliber-
ately and to answer exactly the CEN
sus questions. In past censuses It
was the case usually that the head
of the family was absent at work
when the enumerator called and re-
lance had to be placed on Other
members of the family, frequently
servants or children, none of whom
can be classed as dependable infor-
mants.
The advance schedule will also
undoubtedly prove of great assist
ance to the enumerators 1t will en-
able them to perform their work
more expeditiously and agreeably,
and will lessen the number of cases
involving repeated calls by them.
It is the intention of the census
authorities to confine the present
scope of this auxiliary method of
population enumeration to the large
cities, which, in the past, have con
tanned the greater number of absen-
tee heads Of families.
In communication to the Head
of the Family" printed on the back
of each schedule, Census Director
Durand states:
In accordance with the act of
congress approved July 2, 1909, the
enumeration of the population Of the
United States will begin on April
Is. An enumeratOr will call at
your house, or apartment. for the
purpose of obtaining the required in
formation concerning all persons be-
longing to your household 1t is
necessary that you should prepare
the Information in advance of the
enum orators visit. Please there
fore, answer all the questions con-
tanned on this advance schedule for
each member of your household and
preserve it so that it can readily be
given to the enumerator when he
calls. By doing this you will not
only. aid greatly in the work of Sc
curing an accurate enumeration of
the population, but will probably
save yourself much trouble, since If
you do not do SO, a great deal of
your time will unavoidably be taken
by the enumerator in securing the
information he must obtain, and he
may have to call on you several
times.
This schedule, as filled in by
you, should be given to the enum-
orator when he calls. AS he has
been given detailed instructions,
which it has not been possible to
put on this scehdule concerning the
exact manner in which each uues-
ton should be answered, it will be
necessary for him to go over the an
swers with you or with some mem
ber of your family for the purpose
of making such additions or changes
as are called for by his instructions.
All such additions and changes
should be made by the enumerator
on this SCHEDULE or on his official
schedule before he leaves the house.
The advance schedule, whether fill
ed in by you or not, should then, in
all cases, be given to the enumera-
tor to be forwarded to Washington
with his official schedule upon which
the corrected information for all
families in his district has been
written.
Read the presidents proclama-
ton on the schedule, which emphati-
cally states that you cannot possibly
be harmed in any way by giving in
formation to the census"
Another section of the back page
of the schedule is devoted to brief
instructions to govern the head of
the family in filling the schedule.
A third section contains the COM
plete text of the presidents census
proclamation.