Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-12-24

The agricultural census statistics
are divided into facts covering farm
tenure, farm acreage, farm incum-
brances, farm values, farm expenses.
uses of the land in 1919, drainage,
crops produced in 1919, live stock main
tanned, including an enumeration OF
the various number of the class ana
grade on every farm. farm facilities,
such as tractors. automobiles, truck
and other farm conveniences. co-opera-
tive marketing, purebred animals main
tanned, fruits. nuts and various prod
ucts. Some new questions in this CEN
sus Will involve the amount of land
from which no crop was harvested TINS
year because of crop failure, crop land
lying idle in 1919. acreage of pasture
land on each farm. etc. The govern
ment intends to try to make the farm
statistics fuller and more accurate
than any gathered in the past.
March / the government will begin
taking a census of the manufactures OF
the United States and also of the min
ing and quarrying, oil and gas and
other interests. This work will be
carried on by force entirely separate
from that which will count the peo-
pie during the first 80 days OF the
year and gather the statistics OF agrl-
culture. The work of taking this
industrial census will continue for sew
eral months.
Population to Be Known Speedily.
The count of the people is always
the interesting feature of a decennial
census If the plans of the census bu-
reau here do not miscarry 1t 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
visors, 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
a 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 10th
of next January will make it I'M
| lawful to manufacture or sell in
toxicating liquors anywhere in the
| United States, has been set up. The
enforcement of wartime prohibition so
long as it 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-
/ u1DlllOu clLC OSAh5 RNH
! 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
F will nDfnrOn
| 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 him
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 I'M
/ der each agent there will be a consid-
cradle force of men, the number de-
pending on the nature of the district.
These men will form what will amount
to a secret service force. 1t will be
their business to know whether the
prohibition amendment is being yio-
| lated.
Director in Each State.
In each state there will be federal
director, and under him a small num-
1 Der of inspectors. Both the federal
agents. that is to say, the men who
will make up the governments secret
/ force, and the federal directors will
be directly answerable to the federal
prohibition commissioner. The nearest
/ approach to the organization that has
been formed is the secret service which
looks out for counterfeiters. The pro-