The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-12-12
IN READINESS
FOR TAKING THE CENSUS
Col. E. H. Aull Supervisor for the
Third District Has Recommended
Enumeratcrs for the Work and
Asks the Cooperation Of the
People.

Col. Ebert H. Aull supervisor of
the census for the third district of
South Carolina talks of the census
and says that he has designated to the
director of the census a sufficient
number of men and women to take
the census in the third district, and
most of them have been commission
ed and all of them will be ready for
the actual work which is to begin on
the second day of January and to be
completed within four weeks. lie
embassies the fact that in order that
the work of the enumerators may be
done we'll and thoroughly it is very
important that they have the SYM
pathy ard cooperation Of the people:
1t is big job, but if done we'll
and thoroughly will be Of great bene-
fl in Ghcwing the resources Of this
country as we'll as the population.
Whatever information is gwen to the
enumerators will be held in conf
dence ard is not permitted to be given
out by them. To make the work as
easy as possible for enumerators the
people should be ready and willing
to answer all questions promptly. The
questions are prepared by the gov
ernment and the thoroughness and
completeness of the work will de-
pend almost entirely upon the CO.
operation Of the people and the
work of the enumerator.
Col. Aull in. his statement has the
following to say:
arrangements have been about
perfected to begin work of taking the
14th Decennial Census of the United
States. Director of the Census, Sam
uel L. Rogers, has announced that
everything is ready to begin work
on the second day Of January.
''It is proposed to make this the
most exhaustive, thorough and COM.
plete census that has ever been made.
There are in the United States 372
Census Supervisors, and there viii
be an army of more than $4,000 emu
merators, who will work under the
direction of these supervisors. 1t
is proposed that every person IN the
United States will be enumerated and
the names, ages, birthplaces and occu-
pations of all these will be written
down.
"The Supervisor of the Third Con-
gressional district is No. BOT, and l
did not get to begin work on the
organization of the forces in this dis
trict until about the 7th of October,
and at that time had really only
about a dozen applications, and in
some of the counties comprising the
3rd Congressional district there was
no application at all and it was sup
posed that all applications would be
in the hands of the supervisor by the
18th of October. I found that one OF
the troubles was, that the fact that
the census was to be taken in January
had not been advertised ana Ills
people were not aware OF 1T. l I'M
mediately began letting it be known
that we needed enumerators and made
a trip through the district and by
the courtesy and kindness OF the
newspapers and the county ot1lcers
the fact became known and appllca-
tions began to come in. AS super
visor, | desire to express my appre-
ciation to these agencies for the help
and cooperation they rendered. l
also desire to express my thanks to
the postmasters in the several coun-
ties for their cooperation and Tor
their kindness in conducting the test
examinations. Up to this time have
been too busy in an effort to secure
enumerators to give out anything IN
regard to the coming census.
s'But from the goth to the 10Th
Of November | had certified to the
Director of Census for appointment,
enumerators in. all the counties ex-
cept one, and commentators nave
been made TO- that one. l feel that
I have been fortunate in being able
to recommend for this very important
work sufficient number of men and
women whom I feel are thoroughly
competent and efficient to 90 the
work properly. The value and cor
restness and efficiency of the census
will depend in very large measure
uoon the efficiency and diligence OF
the enumerator. l feel that the per-
sons recommended to dc the work IN
this district are thoroughly compe-
tent and will measure up IN all re-
spects to the requirements necessary
for the making of a thorough and
correct census. In order that they
may do their work thoroughly and
properly, however. it is very impor-
tant that they have the cooperation
and assistance and sympathy OF the
people in the district:
''In this work l desire that the
people shall understand that what
ever information is given to an emu
merator is strictly confidential and
if it is given out by him or her
heavy penalty is attached under the
act of Congress.
81 am arranging to have a meeting
of all enumerators in each county
during the latter part of this month
that we may be able to know each
other personally and to go over the