The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-11

SUPERVISOR OF THIS DISTRICT
TELLS OF THE WORK MAPPED
OUT AND HOW 1T WILL BE
DONE.


February does not take away the
supervisors right under the census
law to designate suitable persons for
such positions" said Supervisor of
Census White of Chipley recently.
1t is designed to aid the supervis-
ors in the exercise of that discretion
and to enable the census director in
telligently to use the power of ap-
proval of the supervisors designa-
tons conferred upon him by law.
1T 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, cap.
able and active persons to make the
count.
''The census will be taken, not by
the census bureau officers or the super
visors, but by the enumerators. They
are the ones who come in contact with
the people and get the facts. Unless
every single enumerator does his
whole and proper duty there can not
be correct census. There can not
be anything of greater scientific value
to this country than accurate statistics
as the basis of study of the existing
conditions regarding our population,
agriculture, manufactures, and mines
and quarries.
All are Qualified.
All persons, unless specifically dis
qualifie-- are entitled to apply to take
the test. Only those under Is years of
age and over 70, and those who have
not become citizens of the United
States, are barred. Otherwise, all
persons regardless of sex and political
affiliations, are eligible. 1t is left to
my judgment WHITTIER It is wise to ap-
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 considera-
ton of applications is January %.
Those received after that date will
have to llbe ignored. Applications
should be addressed in writing to me
at this Office and not to the census
director. l will send inquirers the
necessary form and instructions con-
corning it. Afterward 1 will send
those on the list, prior to the test. a
set of directions for filing out the test
papers. This will enable everyone to
come we'll prepared. Nothing could
be fairer or better calculated to insure
a satisfactory applicant passing the
test.
The test itself need not deter any
one. Any person with common sense
and a, common-school education can
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 narra-
tive form, Of typical families and farms
supposed to be in district. There
will be some instances requiring the
exercise of judgment to decide wheth-
er given entry should be made under
one column heading Or another. You
can see how simple and elementary it
is
Test All Over Country.
The test will be held all over the
country and in every supervisors dis
trict February 5. There will be sew
eral places in each district for taking
it. One place would be insufficient
1t would not hold all the candidates.
AS supervisor, / shall have the direc-
ton of all, and the test examination at
each, no matter under what official
agency it is held, will be that sole and
simple one prescribed by the census
director.
Il am given until February % to
rate the papers in very simple way,
and to gain an idea of the qualifica-
tons of those rated as having passed.
Next l will forward the papers of the
successful candidates, with my recon-
mendations or designations, to the CEN
sus director. He will, if satisfied that
suitable persons have been selected,
give his consent to their appointment,
and they will be commissioned. The
middle or latter part of March should
see everything settled, and the select
ed and commissioned enumerators will
be sent more circulars and books OF
instructions relative to the interpreta-
ton or meaning of the questions on
the two schedules.
April Is the census army Will move
forward in the enumeration.
Certainly the federal census-taking
is as necessary and as honorable as
jury duty, and, as all good and useful
citizens do not hesitate to respond to
the call for such duty, therefore ask
the same high-grade citizenship to
come forward and help me have the
census taken accurately and expedi-
tiously.
AS President Taft has said, the pay
is not large but the work is worth
doing we'll, and some day we shall ali
feel proud in the consciousness that
we had a part, however humble, in
taking this census"
MAIL is SELECTED DIRECTOR