Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1920-01-01
THE ENUMERATORS
FOR SMITH COUNTY


for the various districts of Smith
County:
1st dist-Mrs. Bessie M. Cox, Car
thage.
End and 23rd dists-James B. Hack
EFT, Rt. 1, Carthage.
3rd and 9th dists-James H. Key,
Monoville.
4th and 21st dists-Willie A. Lee,
Riddleton
5th dist-Frank Hudson, Defeated.
7th and 18th dists-Rart Nixon,
Sykes.
9Th and 10th dists-Lee Crowel,
i Chestnut Mound.
Z 9th and 22nd dists-John w. Bel
lar, StonewalL
18th, 18th and goth dists-Leon S.
18th and 18th Dissatisfaction Hun
ter, Rt. 2, Carthage
18th dist-William r. Gwaltney,
Sykes.
18th and 18th dists-Jesse Cantren,
Brush Creek. !,
Active service will be required to
begin Jan. 2 1920, completing within
80 days
The men and women appointed to
serve as enumerators of the Four
teenth Decennial Census are charged
necessary to fill out properly the
printed census schedules which each
enumeration will carry when making
the house-to-house canvas of the ter
Fitory assigned to him. Each enumera-
tor must visit personally each house
in his district and make his inquiries
of the head of the house or some other
member of the family who is compe-
tent to answer the census questions.
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the Census gives each enumerator the
right to enter every dwelling in his
district for the purpose of obtaining
the information required. Enumera-
tors will carry with them at all times
their identification cards and also
their written commissions from the
Government which they will show
whenever requested to do so. They are
instructed to be always courteous and
considerable, but in those rare in
stances where information necessary
to fill out the questions is denied
them, they are empowered by law to
insist on correct answer. There are
legal penalties for refusing to answer
the census questions or willfully Civ
ing answers that are false.
Each enumeration is prohibited by
law from publishing or communicating
any information obtained through the
census regarding any individual or
his affairs. This obligation to secrecy
likewise applies to all persons connect
ed with the Census. After the sehed-
ules are all filled out they are sealed
up and sent to Washington where the
information is tabulated by means of
machinery, names being entirely dis
carded. No person, therefore, need
fear that his personal affairs Will be
disclosed or that the information gil
ven will be used to harm him in any
way.
1t is expected that the work of
enumerating urban districts will be
completed in two weeks and of rural
districts in one month, except where
severe weather makes it necessary to
postpone activities.
Important Notice to the Public
The Fourteenth Decennial Census,
to which President Wilson has called
the attention of the nation in his proc
Iamation, made public today, is to be
the biggest, best and most complete
census of the United States ever taken
if the plans of the Census Bureau do
not go awry.
Director of the census Sam L. Ro-
gers has announced that everything
is in readiness to begin the canvassing
campaign that during the month of
January 1920 will cover every man
sion, every cottage and every hut in
the country. An army of more than
81 600 enumera1Ors, under the dlrec-
ton of 372 census supervisors, viii be
engaged in making the count. Every
person in the land will be enumerated
and the names, ages, birthplaces and
occupations of all of Uncle Sans
nieces and nephews will be set down
and forwarded to Washington.
Many other questions concerning
home tenure, citizenship, marital sta
tus, Iiteracy, sex, color and race are
contained in the population schedule
which the enumerators will fill out
from the answers given them.
Farm Question Important
Farmers also viii be asked the ques-
tions contained in the agricultural
schedule relating to their farms. These
questions cover farm tenure, farm
products, values of farm lands, build
ings. implements and improvements,
field crops, garden products, farm ex-
penses. live stock, farm drainage and
irrigation-in fact, ali phases of the
farming industry are covered.
Even the family Ford viii be count
ed. as, in fact, will al automobiles
and troctors on farms. Questions as
to telephones and electric lights, gas
and tractors on Farms. QueSLlolS aS
the group of inquiries which fall I'M
der the general heading of farm facll-
tiles. The purpose of the government
collecting information of this charact-
err being to show the modern improve
ments installed on the farms in the
last decade.
information Confidential
The Census Bureau desires to en-
phasize the fact that the information
gathered in the census is for general
statistical purposes only and that such
information can not be used as basis
for taxation. Nor can such information
he used to harm any person in any
nav. This is pointed out in the Presi-
Il