The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-01-06
MORE ABOUT THE CENSUS.

supervisor W. u. PEARSON tTlyes Out
an Interview on the Subject-Can-
didates for Enumerators' Places
Must Make Application Before
February 5th-Work Begins April
18th.
Hon. w. G. Pearson, Census Super
visor for this the Fourth District, in
an interview, gives out the following
valuable information relative to the
census taking:
The simple test which candidates
for enumerators' places will undergo
February 5th does not take away the
supervisors right under the census
law to designate suitable persons for
such POSITIONS said Supervisor of
Census, w. c. Pearson, at his Office
in Raleigh yesterday.
1T is designed to aid the super
visors in, the exercise of that discre-
ton and to enable the census director
intelligently to use the power of ap-
prevail Of the supervisors designa-
tons conferred upon him by law
at is very we'll understood that
President Taft, Secretary Nagel, and
Census Director Durand all hold the
supervisors responsible for the enum-
Grafton. There is no doubt, therefore,
that our first and most important
duty is the selection of honest, capa-
BILE and active persons to make the
count
THE census will be taken, not by
the Census Bureau officers or the SUI
pervisors, but by the enumerators.
They are the ones who come in con-
| tact with the people and get the facts.
Unless every single enumerator does
his whole and proper duty there can
not be a correct census. There can
not be anything of greater scientific
value to this country than accurate
statistics as the basis of a study OF
| the existing conditions regarding our
population, agriculture, manufactures
and mines and quarries.
"All persons, unless specifically
disqualified, are entitled to apply to
take the test. Only those under
eighteen years af age and over seven
| ty, and those who have not become
citizens of the United States. are
| barred. Otherwise, all persons, re-
CARELESS of sex and political aff1lia-
| tions, are eligible. 1t is left to my
point women in my district. They
can do the work, I have no doubt
especially in certain parts of the Dis
trict. There were a good many en-
ployed all over the country in the
twelfth census.
"The time for closing the consid-
| Grafton of applications is January
25th. Those received after that date
will have to be ignored. Applica-
tons should be addressed in writing
to me at this office and not to the
| census director. I will send inquir-
ers the necessary form and instruc-
| tions concerning it. Afterward
will send those on the list, prior tc
| the test, a set of directions for filling
out the test papers. This will enable
| everyone to come we'll prepared
Nothing could be fairer or better cal.
culated to insure a satisfactory appli.
cant passing the test.
''The test itself need not deter any
one. Any person with common-sense
and common-school education car
pass it. All it consists of is giving
the candidates sample population and
agricultural schedules, upon which
are to be written in the proper col
umns the required details, which are
found in printed descriptions, in mar
rative form, of typical families ant
farms supposed to be in district.
'The test will be held all over thu
country and in every supervisors
district February 5th. There will b,
Iseveral places in each district To-
taking it. One place would be insult
tficient. It would not hold all thu
candidates. AS supervisor, I shall
) have the direction of all, and the tes
examination at each, no matter unde
what official agency it is held, will
be that sole and simple one prescrib
ed by the census director.
81 am given until February 22n,
to rate the papers in a very simpl
way, and to gain an idea of the quail
ifications of those rated as havin
passed. Next I will forward the pa
pers of the successful candidates
with my recommendations or desig
: nations, to the census director. TIL
middle or latter part of March shoul
. see everything settled.
!, April 18th the census army wi
e move forward in the enumeration.
Certainly the Federal census-tal
ing is as necessary and as honorabl
L as jury duty, and, as all good an
useful citizens do not hesitate to RI
y tspond to the call for such duty,
therefore ask the same high grad
citizenship to come forward and hel
me have the census taken accuratel
V and expeditiously."