The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-03
WRONG VIEW Of
CENSUS TAKING
IS ENTERTAINED
NO HARM WHATEVER TO THOSE
WHO ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS.
Bureau of Census Is Now Endeavoring
to Explain all Points OF the investi-
gatiens-lnformation Is to Be Us :
Solely for Statistical Purposes.

Letters from the census supervisors
to the United States census bureau
shcw the enormous apprehension of
considerable element OF the poEuIa-
tlGn tnat tneir answers 10 tie emu
merators questions i'll tie Lelt CEN
sus, beginning April 15, It's year,
will cause increased taXagica, legal
entanglements, or injurioGs conse-
quences to their persCIs al crop
erty
In order to quiet 2ucA u4.Cl. led
fears, which would, unless Leo. ed,
materially affect t.e acCd.a, he
census, the bureau has y:e y 4 IN
official statement relative q "a =
cennial census, it's origin. .o"33se I. .
uses.
This statement, should furnish COZ.
plete assurance to these coacerE- 3!
that information given the enume
tors is held by the census bureau in
the strictest confidence with reference
to the identity of the informants,, as
required by the Lolicy of tine bureau
and commanded by the law of the
United States.
The bureau earnestly hopes that
clergymen, priests, physicians, school
teachers, employers, and other public
spirited citizens who come in contact
with large numbers OF people will CO.
operate with the bureau by telling per-
sons who are believed to entertain
erroneous opinilns of the census the
real facts and urging them to give full
replies to the enumerators. Teachers
are particularly requested to speak
of the census to the school children
and ask them to tell their parents
about it.
The statement issued by the bureau
explains that the constitution requires
a census of the population to be taken
every ten years in order to reapportion
state representation in the national
house of representatives. 1t is the
means also to ascertain the increase
in the population, agriculture, indus
tries and measures of the nation since
the last census.
It is empnatically declared, by the
statement that the introduction sought
from the people of the United States
is used solely for general statistical
purposes. 1t will neither be published
nor used in any other way to disclose
facts regarding any individual or en-
terprise.
The census, it goes on to say, is no
never has been, and cannot he EN-
rloyed to obtain information that car
be used in any way in the asSessmen
of property for purposes of taxation
or the collection of taxes, either ma
tional state or local; or for deporta
ton proceedings, extradition measure
army or navy conscription, internal
revenue investigations, compulsor
school attendance, child labor Law
prosecutions, quarantine regulations
or in any way to affect the life, libert.
or property of any person.
1t points out that replies to the emu
merators are and must be held by tn
census bureau in strict and absolut
confidence All the bureau official
supervisors, supervisors clerks, ent
merators, and interpreters, before en-
tering upon their duties, are Oh
to take a solemn cath not to disclos
any information they may obtain, e'
cept to the census bureau, and vio
lation of the United States law in re
gard to this oath means a $1,000 lin
or Imprisonment for two years or bot
in the discretion CT the court.