The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-04-08
and the remainder will be distributed

Congress has limited the thirteenth
census to four general subjects-pop-
ulation. agriculture. manufactures and
mines and luarries The director il
authorized to determine the form and
subdivision of inquiries. The inquiry
as to population relates to April 10.
1910: that as TO agriculture concerns
the farm operations during 1909 and
calls for an inventory OF farm equip
ment April IL, 1910: that relative to
manufactures and mines and quarries
Is for 1909
An Army to Get the Facts.
The enumerators will carry only the
population and agriculture schedules
April -, 1910. Special agents will be
sent out with the schedules for the
manufactures. mines and quarries
data. There will be fully G500O emu
meratorS. of whom about 1900 will
carry both the population and agri-
culture schedules. as it is estimated
that there are now fully 100000 sep
arate farms in America, with farmers
numbering well up into a score of mil
lions. In 1900 there were many more
billions OF dollars of fixed capital in
vested in agriculture than there were
in manufactures. strange as it may
seem. And the farmer is getting bet
ter Off all the time; his mortgage in.
debtedness is decreasing fast. his tax
alton is small as compared with the
urbanites burden. and he has taken
to automobile riding on large scale.
This is the heyday of the farmer,
and old Dr. Z. S Census is going to
diagnose him pretty carefully for fear
that with ease comes evil-that is.
the neglect of those essentials which
have made his prosperity possible.
Census taking every ten years Is
tremendous task. 1t IS the greatest
single operation undertaken by Uncle
Sam with the exception of the Pana-
ma canal work and the assembling of
an army in time of war. The Ameri-
can census is the largest costliest and
most accurate of any taken by the civ
ilized nations. Its methods are the
most modern and its equipment the
most complete. The census bureau
force comprises, first. Director Z. Dana
Durand of Michigan, who. although
only thirty-eight years old, is older than
most of the generals commanding the
forces in the civil war and who is, too.
a statistically SCARED hero n veteran
in government service and likely to
prove the most practical and efficient
director connected with any Of the past
censuses Then there is the assistant
william #. Willoughby OF
former secretary of state
of Porto Rico. Next in rank are the
five chief statisticans - William c.
Hunt. in charge of the population divi-
sion; lie Grand Powers. heading the
agricultural division; William NJ. Steu-
art. overseeing the manufactures divi-
sion; DR.. Cressy l.. Wilbur, the vital
statistics work, and DR.. Joseph Adna
Hill, the division Of revision and re-
suits. Charles S. Sloane is the geogra-
pher. Alburtus II. Baldwin is the chief
clerk. Voer V. viles is chief Of the
publication division, Hugh NJ. Brown Is
private secretary to the director, Rob-
ert NJ. Pindell, Jr., is the appointment
clerk, George Johannes Is the disburs-
Ing officer. and c. w. Spicer is the me-
chanica expert In addition to these
are the chiefs of the divisions under
the chief statlsticians.
There are about $50 permanent
clerks, and there will be 5000 tempo
rary clerks. etc. The supervisors will
number $50, and they will employ and
direct the 5000 enumerators. Twenty
expert special agents will exercise an
advisory function. There will be about
| 600 chief special agents and assistant
special agents. The supervisors will
also probably employ 1000 clerks. 500
special agents and 1000 interpreters.
TabuIating the Returns.
The preparation of the schedules for
the tabulating process will begin as
soon as they are forwarded by the SUI
pervisors. The data on them relating
to population will be transferred to
manila cards by the punching of holes
in them to correspond with the differ
ent items in the schedules. An cleo
trical machine controlled by n clerk
can punch holes in 5000 cards day
There will be 300 of these, and 90
100000 cards have been ordered.
After the punching the cards are
hand fed into an electric tabulating
with pin box" attachment,