The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-10
GETTING READY
TO TAKE CENSUS
Director Of Bureau Urging People to
Cooperate With Government in
Getting Correct lnfor-
nation.
ANSWERS CONFIDENTIAL
No One Need Worry About Matters
inquired Into Being Used Against
Him or Made
public.

of the United states Will De TAKEN IA
the coming year. Sam L. Rogers.
director of the census, has prepared
a little four page pamphlet in which
he sets forth some of the questions
which will be asked, and generai.y
explains the census work.
THE enumeration of the population
during a census OF the United States
always presents numerous difficulties
among them apprehension on the
part of people, particularly those OF
foreign birth or extraction that their
answers to the enumerators' CUES
tons will cause increased taxation,
legal entanglements or other conse-
ouences injurious to their welfare,S
Mr.. Rogers writes. He asks that
clergymen, the press, school teachers
and others cooperate with the CEN
sus bureaus in acquainting people
with the Importance of the census,
and to urge them to prepare correct
and complete answers for the enum-
orators.
Begins January 2.
The census enumeration begins
January 2, 1920, and census day Is
named for January /. In cities the
population enumeration will be COM
pleted in two weeks. The enumera-
ton of farms is to be completed in
thirty days. The census of manufac-
turers, mines and quarries, oil and
gas wells, and forestry and forest
products will be taken by special
agents and by correspondence.
The census inquiries are defined by
congress. The census is a means by
which the government ascertains the
increase in population, the statistics
concerning agriculture and the vital
information concerning the resources
of the nation. The information is
strictly confidential, made SO by law.
Census information cannot under any
circumstances by used as a basis for
taxation, neither can it be used to
harm any person or his property. 1t
has nothing to do with detection, ar
rest, prosecution or punishment of
amy persen for any violation Of any
law. ses..,.
Questions Asked.
The important questions asked Of
all persons are:
/. Age at last birthday.
2. Each person ten years OF age
and over will be asked whether he
is able to read or write.
3. Each person will be asked his
birthplace as well as the birthplace
iof father and mother.
4. II foreign born the date of COM
ing to the United States will be
asked, and, il naturalized, the date Of
becoming a citizen; also mother
tongue or native language.
S. Each head of family will be
asked whether his home is owned
by him or rented. If owned, whether
the home is mortgaged or free OF
ldebt.
6. Each person will be asked hi5
occupation and whether he is an en-
Iployer or employee or is working on
his own account.
The answers to the above ques.
lions give valuable and vital infor-
nation to the government concerning
the health, welfare and progress of
the persons under it's protection.
Questions Asked Of Farmers.
i. Each occupant of farm will
be asked how many years, IL any. he
worked on farm for wages; how
many years, If any, he was tenant;
and how many years, If any, he
Harmed as an owner.
2. Whether he (a) owns, or (b)
rents, or (c) partly owns and partly
rents his farm. or whether (d) he
operates the farm for others as a
manager or superintendent
| 5. How many acres in his farm /?
! Number of improved acres? Number
of unimproved acres and number of
acres of woodland?
A. Total value of farm? Total
value of buildings? Vaue OF fmpIe-
ments and machinery on farm?
5. Whether farm is mortgaged +?
| If so, the amount Of mortgage.
6. Expenses for feeo. fertilizer,
and labor in the year 1919?
| Z. Several questions concerning
artificial drainage of his farm
s. Number of cows, horses, sheep,
| chickens, and other domestic ami,
mails on the farm January /, 1920?
! 8. Quantity and acreage of all
crops grown on the farm in 1919, in
Guiding fruits and vegetables?
10. Quantity OF milk and butter
sold off the farm during the year
1913?
II. Acreage of timber land on
farm and value of forest products.
Correct Answers Needed.
Correct answers to the above ques-
tons are of the utmost Importance.
| The United States department of
agriculture assisted the census