Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-04-15

elimination of the vital statistics III |
uuirv from the work of the decennla
census. as il belongs to the permanent
branch of the United States census; |
the reduction in the number of SEIZED |
ules, the piece price method of paying |
for machine work. the omission of the
hand. household and neighborhoOd IN
Custries from the manufactures branch
of the census and the reduction of the
size and number of copies of the final
reports.
The larger part of the S13,O0000O
Eill be expended In the fiscal year
which began July | last and ends
June 80, 1910. the first of the three
years within which time the thirteenth
census must be over the temporary
clerks and special agents discharged
and the permanent census bureau
with its office force of 700 clerks again
performing its annual intercensal func-
| lions. Fully half of the total to be
expended will be Washington's share,
aud the remainder will be distributed
| all over the country.
Congress has limited the thirteenth
census to four general subjects-pop-
! ulation, axrf 'uIture, manufactures and
mines and luanies The director is
authorized 10 determine the form and
subdivision of inquiries. The inquiry
as to population relates to April 10.
1870 that as to agriculture concerns
the farm operations during 1909 and
calls for an inventory of farm equip
ment April II, 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 10. 1910 Special agents will be
sent ont with the schedules for the
manufactures, mines and quarries
data There will be fully G5000 emu
meratOrS, of whom about $4,000 will
carry both the population and agri-
| culture schedules, as 1t Is estimated
that there are now fully 100000 sep
arate farms in America. with farmers
lions. In 1900 there were many more
billions of dollars of fixed capital in
vested in agriculture than there were
in manufactures, strange as 1t 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
urbanite's burden, and he has taken
to automobile riding on large scale.
This is the heyday of the farmer,
and old Dr. u. 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 a
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.
fixed nations. Its methods are the
most modern and its equipment the
most complete. The census bureau
force comprises first Director E. 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, a veteran
in government-~seryice and likely to
prove the most practical and efficient
director connected with any of the past
censuses Then there is the assistant
director, William F. Willoughby of
= Washington. former secretary of state
of Porto Rico Next in rank are the
five chief statiSticians 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.. Greasy l.. Wilbur. the vita
! statistics work, and DR.. Joseph Adm,
Hill, the division of revision and re
s suits. Charles s. Sloane is the geogra
? pher, AlburtuS II. Baldwin is the chic
clerk. NoIer " Viles is chief of the
| publication division. Hugh NJ. Brown i.
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
= chanical expert, In addition to these
j. are the chiefs of the divisions undet
= the chief statisticians.
@ There are about $50 permanen
: clerks, and there will be 1900 tempo
+ rary clerks, etc. The supervisors will
number $50, and they will employ ant
direct the $4,000 enumeratorS. Twent,
expert special agents will exercise al
= advisory function. There will be abou
LOGO chief special agents and assistan
special agents. The supervisors will
also probably employ 1000 clerks. 5O(
Z special agents and 1000 interpreters
9 Tabulatins the Returns.
The preparation of the schedules TO
!. the tabulating process will begin al
!. soon as they are forwarded by the su
Y pervisors. The data on them relating
n to population will be transferred t,
:. manila cards by the punching of hole
!, in them to correspond with the differ
ent items in the schedules. An elec
e trical machine controlled by a clerl