The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-03-31
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
BY the Direcor of the Census of the
United States.

/ IlC SSASuS VI Luc OulIcu oIdICS
| begins. 1t occurs every ten years.
1t is the basis of the distribution
among the states of representation
| in ...e national house of representa-
tives.
1t is also the means by which the
United States government ascertains
the increase in the population, agri-
culture, industries and resources of
| the nation.
1t is required by the constitution
and by act of congress.
The information sought will be
| 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 is not, never has been,
anu can not be employed to obtain
| information 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 conscrip-
ton; compulsory school attendance;
child-labor law prosecutions: quar-
| antine 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 for
eign nation.
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 5, next, the census day." The
same question are asked about each
person. All persons must answer all
the questions.
The census law, with reference to
population, requires that the enum-
orators question 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, ii employee, whether or not en-
ployed at the date of enumeration
(April 10, 1910, and the number of
months unemployed during the pre-
ceding calendar year 1909), whether
Or not engaged in agricultural, school
attendance, literacy,, and tenure of
home, and whether OF not a survivor
of the Union or Confederate army or
navy; and the name and address of
each blind or deaf and dumb person"
The same law, with reference to
agriculture, requires that the enum-
orators questions shall call for:
The name, color and country of
birth OF the occupant of each farm,
tenure, acreage of farm, acreage of
woodland and character of timber
thereon, value Of farm and improve
nlents, value of farm implements,
number and value of live stock, on
farms and ranges, number and value
OF domestic animals not on farms
and ranges, and the acreage of corps
planted and to be planted during the
year of enumeration I91O), and
the acreage OF crops and the quaint
ity and value Of crops and other farm
products for the year ending Deem
Der 81, 1909, next preceding the
enumeration"
Census enumerators wearing
badges with ~. S. Census, 191O,"
stamped on them, will go from house
to house, and farm to farm, bebin-
ming April 49, They are not to be
regarded as spies, detectives, police
men, constables, tax assessors, or Of
l.cers of any city, county or state.
They are employed by the U. S. bu-
reau Of the census. They, do not
represent any other department of
the United States government, or any
foreign nation.
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 prop
erty.
Replies to enumerators are, and
must be, held by the census bureau
in strict and absolute confidence.
All the U. S. census officials, super
visors, supervisors clerks, enumera-
lOIs, duu interpreters, before enter
ing 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.
If any adult person refuses or will
fully neglects to answer an enumera-
tors questions, or, if any person
wilfully 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 other
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 $500.