The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-12-15
LARGE CORPS
ENUM|ER ERAT0RS
TOBEClN WORK
!. NEXT JANUARY
Sixth District Director Swinson
Has His Helpers Ready
for Canvass
AGRICULTURAL CENSUS
WILL ALSO BE TAKEN
Answers Strictly Confidential
and Even Names Are
Lost at Bureau
AGRICULTURAL CENSUS
WILL ALSO BE TAKEN

Thomas w. SwinSOn, Of BemldJl, IN
charge of the Sixth census district OF
the state, will begin taking the CEN
sus of his district the first OF jan
uary, in which a large corps OF emu
merators will take part. In his an
nouncement, Director Swinson says:
"The fourteenth decennial census,
to which President Wilson has called
the attention of the nation in his
proclamation, made public today, is
to be the biggest, best and most COM
plete census of the United States
taken, if the plans of the census
bureau do not go awry.
Director of the Census Sam l..
Rogers, has announced that every
thing is in readiness to begin the can
vassing campaign that, during the
month Of January, will cover every
mansion, every cottage ande hut in
the country. An army of more than
$1,000 enumerators, under the count.
Every person in the land will be emu
merated and the names, ages, birth
places and occupations of all Of Uncle
Sans neices and nephews will be set
down and forwarded to Washington.
MANY other questions concerning
home tenure, citizenship, marital
status, literacy, sex, color and race
are contained in the population sche-
dule which the enumeratOrs will fill
out with the answers given them.
Farm Questions Important.
Farmers, also, will be asked the
questions contained in the agricul-
ture schedule relating to their farms.
These questions cover farm tenure,
farm products, values of farm lands,
buildings, implements and improve
ments, field crops, garden products,
farm expenses, livestock, poultry,
bees, dairy products, improved and
unimproved land, farm drainage and
farming industry are covered. r., r. ,a,e3
: Even the family Ford will be
counted, as, in fact, will all automo-
biles and tractors on farms. Ques-
tions as to telephones and electric
light, gas and water plants also are
included in the groups of inquiries
which fall under the general heading
of Farm Facilities" the purpose OF
the government in collecting infor-
nation of this character being to
show the modern improvements in
stalled on farms during the past de-
cade.
Information Confidential.
THE census desires to emphasize
the fact that the information gather
ed in the census is for general statis-
tical purposes only and that such in
formation can not to used as a basis
for taxation. Nor can such informa-
tion be used to harm any person in
any way This is pointed out in the
presidents proclamation.
LAS a matter Of fact. the identity Of
individuals is lost as soon as the
f1lled-out schedules are received at
Washington. For upon reaching
there the information is transferred
from the sheets to cards. This is
done by machinery and names are
discarded entirely. Moreover every
person connected with the taking Of
the census is prohibited by federal
law from divulging any information
given them in the performance OF
their duties.
s'The bureau of the census has al
ways had the willing cooperation of
the public in the past and confident
Iy looks forward to that same spirit
of cooperation for the census of
1920