The daily sentinel., 1910-04-12
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WORKERS BEGIN
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ed to improve the reports For in
stance, the country farmer Is to be
afforded an opportunity to consider
in advance the statements he shall
make as to the conditions prevailing
with reference to his holdings, and
the same advantage Is to be given
heads of families in cities as to the
enumeration Of their households.
In both cases sheets are to be
passed around before the official calls
OF the enumerators, In the hope that
both ruralist and urbanite will be
more complete in their returns than
they otherwise might be.
There also is to be unusual care In
the supervision of the work OF the
enumerators. In the cities super
yisors will camp on the heels of the
men with the pencils during the first
day of their work, and in the country
districts the sheets themselves will be
especially sCrutinized.
The inquiry will comprise three
principal branches population. agri-
culture. mining and manufacturing
The questions will cover the acreage,
the value and the products Of the
farms, including special enumera-
tion Of animals, as it will the capital
invested, the value of products and
the number Of employees of mining
and manufacturing plants.
The euumerators viii want to
know a great deal about you for the
population volumes They not only
will insist upon knowing your sex.
but will expect you to reveal your
age, and viii ask you to tell whether
you are white. black, mulatto. Jap
anese. Chinese or Indian. whether
you are married or single, and If
married, how often; whether you are
American or foreign born, and If the
latter, that you give not only your
nationality. but your race and mother
tongue.
Then, If you are woman. you are
to tell how many children have been
born to you, and, in any, event, you
are to tell all about your education,
your parentage and your employm ent.
The mere getting of the informa-
tion will cost the government the
pretty sum of $4,000 900 OF this
amount S4,l0O,OO0 will be paid to
enumerators, and the remaining mil
lion to supervisors. With a few eX-
ceptions the enumerators will be paid
on the basis of the work done. In
the country remuneration will be
b AACLA ~ ~ Nv NtAAtH iOl each
reported. while the pay for names
will range from to cents.
The districts viii average 400
names, 600 In the country and L.
500 in the cities In the Southern
states there VIII be two enumerators
in each district. one white, the otIer
black All told there viii be about
I 500 negro enumeraturs, but some
Of them viii be employed in the
Northern states
In the South the negroes will be
visited by enumerators Of their own
people. There also viii be about 500
women enumorators. In point of
numheTs, New York viii lead the list
with $500 enumerators. while Ne
yada will close the procession with
eighty-siN.
The results of the labors of this
army of men aud women will be pub
lished in twelve or fifteen large vol
umes. which viii come out from time
to time for two or three years after
the completion of the work in the
field. All the tabulation, as weli as
the general preparation Of the mat
ter for the printer. will be done in
Washington under Durand's super
vision.
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