Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-19
next YEARS CENSUS
Extensive arrangements Now r
Progress.
CALLS FOR MUCH INFORHATIoH

Give Correct Answers TO all Cues.
tions-cempensation for the People
Who do the Work.
Extensive plans are being, made,
throughout the country now for TAX
ing the United States census next year.
supervisors being named and corps Of
enumerators will be wanting to know
all there is to know about the people
including their nationality, their aEes,
the color Of their hair, their finencial
standing and many other, personal mat
ters. All citizens, under the law. "over
eighteen years of age shall answer cor
rectly to the best of their knowledge,
all questions Failure is q misde-
meanor and punishable by a Hne Of net
moro than 800.
The scope of this census includes
population, agriculture, manufacture.
forestry and forestry products and
miners and quarries. The schedules re-
lative to population include for each
inhabitant the name. condition, place
of abode. relationship to head Of fam
lily. color, sex, age conjugal conditi2n,
place of birth. place Of birth Of parenss,
nationality Of mother tongue OF par
ents Of foreign birth, number OF years
in the United States, citizenship. oc-
cupation. whether or not employer or
employe, whether or not engaged tn
agricultural. school attendance. liter
acy, tenure Of home and the cncurfl-
brance thereon. and the name and adj
dress Of each blind or deaf and dumb
person.
The schedules relating to the In
dustries are no less minute In. thefr
detail and thoroughness.
For taking the census, congress has
authorized quite an extepsive OF.
ganization In washington In the census,
Office. The chief Of the organizatiol
is the director Of census and ne has an
assistant, number Of experts, and corps
Of other helpers, including many ex-
pert statisticians. q, i
The director Of census namess the
supervisors not 70 exceed 40 In mum
Der. who have actnal direction IN the
field Of taking the cenzus. Thsy must
be named at least six noutts befofe
such, work begins. As nearly a. rrac@
ticable these are lamsd according q
/ the conversational diEtricts In turn
these snpsrstssrs ntsS Srilneratoys
who are charged With Ylsitihs eath
house and procuring ther{at the infofs
nation covered IN various scheduies
of the census. u
The director Of census is paid $7.-
500 per year and his assistant, s5.oee,
Other assistants in the corps receive
$4,000 and down, according to respoH-
sibility.
The supervisor receives $1,000 and
in addition thereto 81 for each 1000
or major fraction thereof, Of popuia-
Etion enumerated in HIS district He
may draw in advance 500 IN the dis
cretion Of the director. The compen-
sation of the enumeratoris two to four
cents for each inhabitant; twenty to-
thirty cents for each productive indus-.
try reported; twenty to- fifty cents for
each irrigation or drainage enterprises
remarked and ten cehts for each barn
~ ;no,osnre NOT an Z farm contaln,
n. live stock sush rates applv m
we,, nonulated districts. ~. III
prov,s,ors Tor ysr A,sn, mnenaa.
- =. .ada srs .,.iy ..tt,ad d,s.
..,a.s 49, uan1,na frou, "a 70 a. ner day. |
pro,,s,on .. r,aaaf si.o for nlov.
mant =, irtsrnretars h event Of any.
49, ~, h.,ng : h,o ~ .n4a,s English. =
onr tn ~ o.ns,s sheI, 'ha tsken an of Ian
1ooo ArvI !c,tv having 2.soS'
,nh,h,.ont. a, ,Ne ,ast census
,a4 , - on,at.d r,;in,n two monti,s:s
49, a.. - ,o..o, uho shaI, raceive any
uonavd ~ tae n COMMUNICATION Of max
i've On anno,ntment. ai,aIl be guilty OF
a felony and ia liable ia a fine Of $4,000
umerator or supervisor or clerk, who
having taken the oath of ofice, neg
Iioentlv fails 10 comply Herewith, Is
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