The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-04-14
,EVERYsoDY SHOULD TELL THE
TRUTH TO UNCLE SANS
CENSUS MEN.
It's No Use to Brae and It's Danger
Gus to Lie About Yourself-Enum-
orators Will Start Out On Their
Work Tomorrow Morning.

fOf lue cement or GACSe tlmld peO-
pie who fear the coming of the CEN
sust enumerator, who begins his grand
lnquisition Friday of tLis week two
ways have been discovered to foil and
battle him. One is to die before April
10. and the other is to be born after
that date. If you are living Frida..
le'll get you, and he'll go the COLLINS
one better, fer he'll get you whether
you look out or not.
And its bound to 5a unluckv TO
somebody. 1t begins on tomorrow
and its the thirteenth census-can
you beat that combination.
The thirteenth census of the Jnited
States of America will relate strictly
to the day it begins, April IS, and no
matter what You used to be o" what
you intend to become, it's what you
are at that time that VII govern yom
classification on the schedules.
If you marry April 16, before the
enumerator reaches you, you will go
on the roll as single; and if you die Oh
April Is the enumeratOr will put yO1
down as living, no matter if your rela
tiyes are haggling over a division cf
the estate by the zine he comes
around.
Supervisor Perham has beer busy
! for the past few days holding schools
! for enumerators over the terc,tory,
| which includes all the counties Of the
/ 11th congressional district AMI the
official interrogators are in fine trim
| They are going to soak up information
| like a four-dollar rain coat absorbs
moisture, and while some of the CUES
tons they will ask will sound funny, il
woald be just as well not to treat them
as jokes. -" 3.
Then the Jokes On You
! If you think they are intended to be
4 You will then have a year or two in q
| federal prison 10 enjoy the jests and
| to make it all tie funnier, you will be
: fined a thousand or two dollars on the
side. Now laugh!
And the same thing applies if yGG
get humorous yourself and give III
/ wrong information.
The population schedule to be useG
in the cities carries 32 questions and
the minions of the authorities at Wash
ington are compelled to ask them
whether or no. So, if you chance t.
I be Cf the gentleman persuasion and
| the enumeratOrs looks you squarely il!
| the eye and asks you now many child
ren you are the mother of You need
not ring up the foolish warehouse or
call the dog or faint, or do ANYTHING
, desperate Just simply say, Not
none" in a low, musical tone of voice
ard ne will go gayly Cn to qae5tion
| -, which has to do with the birth
place OF the questioneo.
And. if after asking you sixteen
questions. to all of which you have
replied in English, the enumcrato'
blankly inquiries Wheeler Or no, you
speak English, do not smite him Il
| the earth or tell him 10 quit kiGdin
1 That's question II.
And, again. when you are asked
whether you are an employer Or an
employee, it will be unwihe to seek
to gain reputation as a captain Of
+ industry by telling him yoa own a ma
| iority of the stock of the Standard Oi
Company. This reply will reach the
| newspapers all right, all right, bit not
until you are being tried in court OF
! iucfioa oiVipp il IN
| Same way about your automobiles.
Dent reply nonchalan;iy that the last
, time you counted up YOU had some
thing like nine or ten. That is, nless
yoa really have them.