The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-12-20

formation within a week or ten days.
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 and
grade on every farm, farm facilities,
such as tractors, automobiles, truck
ana other farm C1nvenicnccS. co-OTcra-
tive marketing, purcbred animals main
tanned, fruits. nuts and various T'roc-
uctS. Some new questions in this Gem
SuS will involve the amount Of land
from which no crop was harvested thi$
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 census of the manufacturers Of
the United States and also of the min
ing and Quarrying. oil and gas ana
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 aGrt-
culture. The work of taking this
| industrial census will continue for sew
| eral months.
/ Population TO Pc Known Speedily.
The count of the people is always
| the interesting feature OF decennial
census. If the plans of the census hu-
reau here do not miscarry ii will not
/ be many weeks after the last reports
/ of the enumcratorS have been received
until Il will be possible to announce
/ the total population. = The enumera-
I tors will report to the district super
visorS, who in turn will report through
the state supervisors 10 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
!
10 announce the final total for the
country. il feels it is prepared to do
n quick job. Following the announce
mcnt of the total population for the
entire country the bureau will get out
as quickly rs possible the totals for
the various subdivisions, the county
and the township. Ii 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 ii I'M
lawful to manufacture or sell in
toxicating liquors anywhere in the
United States, has been set up. TIE
enforcement Of wartime prohibition so
long as il 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 10 nullify the pro-
hihi,ion 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.
Ii 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 10 suffer the
consequences.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue will he at the head of the PROM
bition enforcing organization. Direct
ly under him and responsible to h.n
will be the federal prohibition commits
. sioncr. 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 conSld
cradle force Of men. the number de
pending on the nature Of the district
These men will form what will amour
TO a secret service force. 1t will b.
' their business to know whether the
prohibition amendment is hcing VIC
: lated.
u Director in Each State.
In each state there will be fedora
director, and under him small mum
her of INSPECTORS. Both the fedora
: agents. that is To say, the men VIII
: will make up the governments secre
:, force. and the federal directors vii
;. be directly answerable to the fedora
-. prohibition commissioner. The neares
:, approach to the organization that ha
!. been formed is the secret service whlc
, looks out for cOunterfeiterS. The Pre-
. h;bitiOn secret service, however. vii
be much larger than the organization
y that deals with counterfeiting an
!. counterfeters.
=, 1t will be the duty of the inspector
!, of the Various states to keep then
:, selves informed as to the condition
- existing in the state. They will be e2
= pacted 10 know at all times whethe
:. manufacturers are oheying the prov
i, sionS of the law having to do wit
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