Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-04-06

questions not on the list. All persons
must answer the same questions.
The counter. or enumerator, will call
at your home Friday. April Is next.
or maybe day or three days or a
week later. He will call as soon as
he can. You will know him by cen
sus badge. UNITED States Census.
1870" he will wear on his coat and a
yellow khaki bag he carries. In this
| are his printed questions. He may
have an interpreter with him. The
| enumerator may be woman.
You must not refuse to admit him
to your home. You must not refuse
to answer. You must not answer
falsely.
Listen to him. Answer him willing
~ and truthfully. Encourage your
relatives. friends and neighbors to tell
him. Help him in every way you can
1t Is your duty. 1t is everybody's
duty. 1t is the law of the United
States. He is not spy. policeman
or a tax assessor. He is not an agent
! Of the city. county or state. He is
working for the bureau Of the United
States census. He tells no one but
the census bureau what is told him,
and the United States law will not let
the census bureau tell any other per-
| sons or officials or other government
departments or any foreign ambassa
dor. consul or nation.
The census law with reference to
population requires that the enumera-
tors questions shall for each inhabit-
ant 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 Unit
ed States. citizenship. occupation.
whether or not employer or employee.
and if employee. whether or not EN-
ployed at the date of enumeration
april Is. 1910. and the number OF
months unemployed during the pre-
ceding calender year 1900). whether
or not engaged in agriculture school
attendance. literacy and tenure of
home and whether or not survivor
Of the Union or Confederate army or
navy. and the name and address of
each blind or deaf and dunb person -
The same law with reference to
agriculture requires that the enumera-
tors questions shall for each inhabit-
ant call for
THE name, color and country of birth
Of occupant Of each farm. tenure. acre
age of farm. acreage of woodland and
character Of timber thereon. value of
farm and improvements. 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
crops planted and to be planted dur.
ing the year OF enumeration and the
acreage of crops and the quantity and
value of crops and other farm prod.
ucts for the year ending Dec. 81 next
preceding the enumeration"
All questions relating to population
and the inventory of farm equipment
apply to conditions existing only or
April Is, the census day"
The census bureaus instructions tt
enumerators with reference to the emu
meration of the population presen
some important and interesting distinc
tions
Persons living on April Is. 1910. bu
who died after it and before enumera
tors call, are to be counted, but per
sons born after April Is are not to b.
included in the count. Persons wht
were single on April Is are to be re
ported as single even though they have
married subsequently and before tn,
canvasser has called. This is true sim
ilarly of persons who become widowed
or divorced after April Is.
The census law provides that all per
sons shall be enumerated at their "usu
al place of abode" on April Is. Thi!
means the place where they may b.
said to live or belong or the plac,
which is their home. As rule. tn
usual place Of abode is not the place
where a person works or where HI
eats. but where he regularly sleeps
The enumerators are cautioned. how
ever. that where a man happens t.
sleep at the time Of the enumeration
may not be the place where he regu
larly sleeps.
As to Absentees.
If any one in an enumeration distric
Is temporarily away from home on
visit or on business or travelling TO
pleasure or attending school or COLLEGE
or sick in hospital such absent per
son is to be enumerated and included
, with other members of the family
But son or daughter regularly Twin,
in another locality should not be count
ed with the family at home.
Servants. laborers or other employ
ees who live with the family and slee]
In the same house or on the premises
should be enumerated with the family
. The census bureau states that Their
, will be. on the other hand. certain
| number of persons present and perhap
lodging and sleeping in districts a
the time of the enumeration who Il,
not have their usual place Of abod
there. These are not to be enumerated
1t must be assumed that they will b.
; enumerated elsewhere. They Shout.
not. therefore. unless it is PRACTICAL,
certain that they will not be enumerat
ed anywhere else. enumerate or in
clude with the members of a famil,
they are enumerating any of the fol
lowing classes:
Persons visiting family, transfer
boarders or dodgers who have som
other usual or permanent place o
abode, students or children living O