The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1919-12-19

, +rv leave the questions in the T,000.00o
farm homes and return for the ih-
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
nses 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 e0HvenieneeS. co-opera-
five 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 this
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 l 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 agfi-
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 decennfal
census. If the plans of the census bu-
reau here do not miscarry it will not
be many weeks after the last reports
of the en'lmerators have been received
until it will be possible to announce
the total population. The enumera-
tors will report to the district super
vsors, 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
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 he 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 10th
of next January will make it un-
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 M
tion-wide prohibition by constitutional
amendment Efforts to nullify the pro-
/ hibilion 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 prolli-
hition enforcing organization. Direct
/ ~ 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 conSd-
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 VIC
] lated
Director in Each State.
In each state there will be a federal
director, and under him a small num-
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 answerabe 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-
hbition secret service, however, will
be much larger. than the organization
that deals with counterfeiting and
counterfeiters.
It will be the duty of the inspectors
of the various states to keep them
selves informed as to the conditions
existing in the state. They will be ex-
pected to know at all times whether
manufacturers are obeying the provi
sions of the law having to do with
them: whether druggists ana physi-
cians are conforming to the provisions