The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
WILL TAKE FEDERAL
CENSUS IN A MONTH
GOVERNMENT PREPARING FOR
SWIFT ENUMERATION IN JAN
UARY. WHAT'LL BE ASKED.


cally all the supervisors of census for
the state of Georgia, the bureau of
census has now turned its attention
to approving the enumerators to be
selected by the district supervisors,
preliminary to sending out complete
instructions to the army of 10000
men and women who will take the
next decennial census beginning Jan
uary 2, 1920.
The supervisor for this, the Third
congressional district, will be T. M.
Furlow, of Americas, who has al
ready been appointed.
Office Lasts Seven Months.
The Office of supervisor will con-
tinue for a period of seven months.
The compensation allowed by law is
$1,000, plus $1.0O for each thousand
or major fraction of thousand pop
ulation enumerated Clerk hire and
other necessary expenses will be paid
by the government.
The enumerators will begin work in
practically all localities on January
2 and will finish in approximately
two weeks in cities and one month in
rural communities. In addition to the
detailed inquiry in regard to the
number, composition and characteris-
tics of the population, the census will
include canvasses of agriculture, of
manufacturing industries, of mines
and quarries, of oil and gas wells,
and of forestry and forest products.
The information sought from each
household will comprise the follow
ing: Place of abode, relationship to
head of family, color, sex, age, con-
jugal condition, place of birth OF
parents, nationality or mother tongue
of all persons born in foreign coun-
tries, nationality or mother tongue
of parents of foreign birth, number
of years in the United States citizen
ship, occupation, whether or not en-
ployer or employee, whether or not
engaged in agriculture, school at
tendance, literary and tenure OF
home and encumbrance upon it.
"Floaters" Provided For.
The enumerator will visit each
home or other dwelling place, such
as hotels, boarding houses, ETC., and
procure the foregoing data from the
head of the household or some per-
son qualified to give the information
Each person is to be enumerated al
the place where he or she regularly
Sleeps" not where employed OF
where temporarily sojourning. Float
ers" having no regular or fixed abld-
ing place will, be enumerated as resi-
dents of the locality in which they
are found when the census is taken.
Valuable information will be gath
cred by the census enumerators on
the agricultural situation. Each far
mer visited will be asked to furnish
acreage of farm property and wood
land; value of farm and improve
ments and the encumbrance thereon,
and number of live stock and other
farm products for the year ending
December 81, 1919.
Similar informative data will be
sought in the manufacturing census,
which is to be taken by a special
field force of 1900 agents. The IN
formation obtained will cover the
name and location of the establish
ment, character of organization,
character and kind of goods manu-
featured, amount of capital invest
ed. number of proprietors, firm mem
hers. copartners or officers, with their
salaries. the number of employees and
their salaries, quantity and cost OF
materials used in manufactures,
character and quantity of power and
machinery used, and the quantity and
value of products turned out.
Much Statistical Information.
The data to be compiled by the
bureau of census through the forth
coming canvass will provide much IN,
formation of value in a statistical
wav. For example, the ratio of males
to females in the country at large and
in the various localities will be shown
as well as the age distribution OF
the population, the degree of illitera,
CIV. the distribution of negroes and
other non-white elements, the num-
her of distribution of the foreign
stock in the United States, the extent
of interstate migration and the dis
tribution of the population as regards
occupations. The coming census VIII
show the population at around No.
100000.