The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-12-20

statistics fuller and more accurate
than any gathered in the past
March | the government VIII Deglh
taking census Of the manufactures ol
the United States and also of the min
ing and uuarrying, oil and gas ana
other interests. This work will be
carried on by q force entirely separate
from that which will count the peo-
Die during the first 80 days OF the
year and gather the statistics OF agrl-
culture. The work of taking TINS
industrial census will continue for sew
eral months.
Population to Be Known Speedily.
The count of the people is always
the interesting feature of decennial
census. If the plans Of the census Du-
reau here do not miscarry it will not
be many weeks after the last reports
of the enumeratOrs have been received
until it will be possible to announce
the total population. The enumera-
tors will report to the district super
yisors, who In turn will report through
the state supervisors to headquarters
here. The returns will all be tabu'
lated here by machinery. There has
been developments in machine count
ers since the census Of 1910, and while
the census bureau does not make any
promise as to when it will be ready
TO announce the final total for the
country, it feels it Is prepared to do
a quick job. Following the announce
ment of the total population for the
entire country the bureau will get out
as quickly as possible the totals for
the various subdivisions, the county
and the township. 1t will announce
the population of large cities as rap
idly as returns can be tabulated. AS
general rule, totals for the larger
cities will be announced ahead of state
totals.
To Enforce Prohibition.
The federal governments machinery
for enforcing the constitutional
amendment which after the 18th
of next January will make 1t un-
lawful to manufacture or sell in
toxlcating liquors anywhere in the
United States, has been set up. The
enforcement of wartime prohibition so
long as 1t shall continue is under the
direction of the commissioner OF inter
nal revenue and Is an activity separate
and apart from the enforcement OF ma
| tion.wide prohibition by constitutional
amendment. Efforts to nullify the pro-
hibition amendment are being put
forth In the courts In various sections
of the country, but the government Is
proceeding on the theory that the
amendment will stand, and that the
enforcing legislation recently passed
by congress will be upheld by the
courts.
| 1t Is hardly necessary to say that
the federal government will enforce
prohibition without fear or favor. The
law will be dealt with just as any
other law Of the land and the person
who violates it will have to suffer the
consequences.
The commissioner Of internal rev
enue will be at the head Of the prohi
bition enforcing organization. Direct
ly under him and responsible to hin
will be the federal prohibition commits
sioner. The country has been divided
into ten districts In each of which
there will be a federal agent, and un
der each agent there will be consid
cradle force Of men, the number de
pending on the nature of the district
These men will form what will amoun
to a secret service force. 1t will b.
their business to know whether thu
prohibition amendment is being VIC
lated.
Director in Each State.