The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-04
MANUFACTURES
CENSUS STARTED.
Eighteen Hundred Special Agents Collecting the Statistics for 1909.

 Eighteen Hundred Special Agents
 Collecting the Statistics for 1909.
 The United States Census Bureau has begun to take the Federal Census of Manufactures, Mines, Quarries, Petroleum, and Natural Gas for the year 1909.
 The canvass is being made under the supervision of MT. William M. Steuart Chief Statistician for Manu- factures, and about 1,800 special agents will be employed eventually in the work, and they are from day to day being appointed by Director Du- rand from the eligible registers estab- lished as a result of the November examination of candidates for these positions.
 Director Durand has taken extra ordinary precautions to assure the manufacturers that all answers will be held absolutely confidential. This statement is conspicuously displayed on the front pages of the various schedules, and it is also emphatically declared that no publication will be made in the census reports disclosing the name or operations of individual establishments in any particular. The act of Congress provides that the Bureau of the Census shall not per init any other than its sworn em-
  ports. It provides also that any em- ploye who shall, without the author ity of the Director of the Census, pub fish or communicate any information coming into his possession shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not to eA- ceed S1,0O0 or be imprisoned not to exceed two years, or both, in the dis cretiOn of the court.
 There is but limited time in which to complete this work, sa1o Director Durand today. Tt is essen tial that all the field employees exert themselves to the utmost Those who do good work will be reassigned to other districts and retained III the service until the work is finished. 'If manufacturers or others fur nishing data object to supposed disclosure of the secrets of their bus1- l ness, the special agents will assure them that the results of their in dividual business will not be made public, They are required also to ex- l plain that the information will not be used for the purposes of taxation, nor 1 in any manner to identify the opera i t1cns of the individual establishments, and will not be disclosed to any other ! bureau of the Federal Government. 1 The intent of the law, which will De strictly carried out, is to prevent the disclosure of information which might l 1 of the person or establishment SUD- plying it.
 s"The period covered will be, where l ever possible, that of the year ending 1 December 31, 1909. In the majority l of cases the data can be secured for it, as the business year of most estab- I lishmentS will correspond to the call endar year 1909. For establishments beginning operations for the first time l during the year it will not be possible 1 to make the report cover more than l the period actually embraced. "A manufacturing establishment, which is the unit of enumeration for l the census, is deemed to be one or more factories, mills, apr plants own l ed or controlled by one individual, 1 partnership, corporation, or other | owner, located in the same town or l of account is kept. As the statistics | will be presented by kinds and by classes of industries, it is essential | that the precise character of the | work performed by each establish rnent shall be clearly determined. A | general schedule must be prepared l for each establishment reported, and, l in addition, such special supplemental l schedule or schedules as may apply to the industry, if any.
 s"The method of the canvass re- l uuires that a few days prior to the day when a given firm IS to be can- 1 vassedt the special agent shall mail to the manufacturer copy of the gen. 1 eraI schedule, with the proper sup
 elemental schedules, together with the request that they be filled out in readiness for the special agent on his
 arrival Tn the event this has not
 been done at the time the agent calls
 he will proceed to get the facts inn
 media tely.
 s'Tne information secured must be
 accurate In drafting the schedule every effort was made to frame the inquiries in such a form that the an swers to them can generally be taker directly from the books of accounts
 and the records of the establishment canvassed. Tn no case are genera
 statements or estimates to be accept
 ed where it is possible to secure an
 swers directly from the books of ac- counts and records.
 :. 'tAs there is a general interest il the subject of the comparative i'm portanee of the cities, States, an6 } Territories with reference to th'
 larger selected industries, it is ex
 oeedingly desirable that from tn
 standpoint of cfvid pride alone, thu States should furnish the data with a out delay in order that the indus
 trial centers in which they operat
 may be completely and correctly rep :, resented in the statistical tables. Ev cry manufacturer is therefore urge, . to cooperate promptly and fully witt
 the Bureau of the Census" , HOARSE COUGHS, STUFFY COLDS
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