Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-04
4 WRONG VIEW
 OF THE CENSUS
No Alarm Can Come to Any Person
 yNh0 Answers Questions to Be , Asked by the Census Enu- meratOrS.

Washington, D. C., March 4.-Let- ters from the census supervisors to the United States Census Bureau show the erroneous apprehension of a considerable element of the popula- tfon that their answers to the emu merators' questions in the next cen sus, beginning April 15, this year, will cause increased taxation, legal entanglements or injurious conse- uuences to their persons and prop erty.
 In order to quiet such unfounded fears, which ' ould, unless removed, materially affeot- the accuracy of the census, the bureau has prepared an official statement relative to the de- cennial census, it's origin, purpose, aA uses.
 x This statement should furnish con- plete assurance to those concerned that information given the enumer- ators is held by the Census Bureau 1. in the strictest confidence with ref erence to the identity of the inform ants, as required by the policy of the bureau and commanded by the law of the United States.
 The bureau earnestly hopes that clergymen, priests, physicians, school teachers, employers, and other public spirited citizens who come in contact with large number of people, will CO., operate with the bureau by telling persons who are believed to enter tain erroneous opinions of the census the real facts and urging them to give full replies to the enumerators. The
 teachers are particularly requested to speak of the census to the school children and ask them to tell their parents about it.
 The statement issued by the bureau 5 explains that the Constitution re- 7 quikes census of the population to be taken every ten years in order to } reapportion state representation in the National House of Representa- tives. It is the means also to ascer s tain the increase in the population, agriculture, industries, and resources of the nation since the last census. It is emphatically declared, by the statement, that the information sought from the people of the United States is used solely for general sta tistical purposes. It will neither be f published nor used in any other way to disclose facts regarding any indi vidual or enterprise. The census, it goes on to say, is not, never has been and cannot be employed to obtain in- formation that can be used in any way in the assessment of property for purposes of taxation or the collection of taxes, either national, state or To- cal; or for deportation proceedings, extradition measures, army or navy conscription, internal revenue inves- tigations, compulsory school attend ance, child labor law prosecutions, quaLantine regulations, or Ill any way to Affect the life, liberty or property of any person..
 It points out that replies to the enumerators are and must be held by the Census Bureau in strict and ab- solute confidence. All the bureau of- ficials, supervisors, supervisors clerks, enumerators, and interpreters, before entering upon their duties, are to disclose any information they may obtain, except to the Census Bureau, and a violation of the United States law in regard to this oath means a $1,000 fine or Imprisonment for two