The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-04-01
OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE
DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS

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begins 1t occurs every ten years.
1t is the basis of the distribution
among the states of representation in
the National House of Representa-,
lives.
1t is also the means by which the
| United States government ascertains
the increase in the population, agrl-
culture, industries, and resources OF
| the nation.
1t is required by the Constitution
and by the act of Congress.
Census for Statistical Purposes Only
The information sought will be US
ed solely for general statistical pur-
poses. 1t will neither be published
nor used in any other way to disclose
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 any
way in the assessment of property for
purposes of taxation or the collection
of taxes, national, state, or local; for
deportation proceedings; extradition
measures; army or navy consumption;
compulsory school attendance; child
labor law prosecutions; quarantine
regulations; or in any way to affect
the life, liberty, or property OF any
person.
1t has nothing whatever to do with
the detection, arrest, prosecution, or
punishment of any person, for any
suspected. or actual, violation of a
law, whether of CITY, or state, or the
National Government, or of 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,
whether or not employer or employee,
and, if employee, whether or not en-
ployed at the date of enumeration
april Is, 1910, and the number OF
months unemployed during the pre-
ceding calendar year $1,000, wheth-
err or not engaged in agriculture,
school attendance, literacy, and ten
ure of home, and whether or not a
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:
1.-THE name, color, and country OF
birth of occupant of each farm, ten
ure, acreage of farm acreage of wood
land and character of timber thereon,
value of farm and improvements, val
ue of domestic animals not on farms
and ranges, and the acreage of crops
planted and to be planted during the
year of enumeration (191O), and the
acreage of crops and the quantity and
value of crops and other farm pro-
ducts for the year ending December
thirty first $1,000 next preceding the
enumeration"
Badges Worn by Census Enumerators
Census enumerators wearing
badges with "U. s. Census 191O'
stamped on them, will go from house
to house, and farm to farm, begin
ming April Is. They are not to be re-
garded as spies, detectives, police
men, constables, tax assessors, or Of
ficers of any city, county or state.
They do not represent any other de-
partment of the United States govern
ment, or any foreign nation.
None Affected BY Their Answers
No person should hesitate, neglect,
or refuse to answer all the enumera-
tors questions. He only asks those
necessary to fill the schedules which
are required by law. Nothing that
is told him can in any way be used
to the detriment or damage of any
person, or his family, or his property.
Replies Strictly Confidential
Replies to enumerators are, and
must be, held by the Census Bureau
in tsrict and absolute confidence.
All the U. s. Census officials, SUI
pervisors, supervisors clerks, enum-
orators, and interpreters, before en-
tering upon their duties, are obliged
to take a solemn oath not to disclose
any information they may obtain, ex-
cept to the Census Bureau, and vio-
lation of the United States law in re-
gard to this oath means $1,000 fine,
or Imprisonment for two years, or
both, in the discretion of the Court.
Penalties for Failure to Answer
If any adult person refuses or will
fully neglects to answer an enumera-
tors questions, or, If any person will
fully gives answers that are false, he
or she can be arrested, carried to
court, and fined up to 500. Keepers
of hotels, apartment houses, boarding
or lodging houses, tenements or 9TH
er buildings, in which persons make
their homes, must help the enumera-
tor when asked, or they will be liable
to arrest and punishment by fine up
to S500