Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1920-01-01
ENUMERATION FOR
l4TH CENSUS WILL
START January z,
MUST GIVE DATA
Work in Towns to Be Compile
ted in Two Weeks and in
Country within Four Weeks
All Questions Asked Are to
Be Answered Correctly I'm
der Penalty of the Law

De AHSWeItu SoIIeCIly Ou-
der Penalty of the Law
Taking of the census in Idaho
county probably will not begin
before February 10, owing to diff
ficulty in procuring enumerators,
especially for the mountain dis
tricts, j. B. Benedict, in charge
of the census in north Idaho, with
offices in Lewiston, has just
announced.
Enumeration for the fourteenth de-
cennial census of the United States
will commence on January 2, and will
be completed in towns within two
weeks, while four weeks is permitted
for enumeration work in rural dis
tricts.
MUST COLLECT FACTS
Men and women appointed to serve
as enumerators are charged by law
with the collection of all facts
necessary to fill out properly the
printed census schedules which each
will carry when making
a house-to-house canvass of the
territory assigned to him. Each emu
merator must visit personally each
house in his district and make his
inquiries of the head or some other
member of the family who is compe-
tent to answer the census questions.
The act of congress providing for
the census gives each enumeration the
tight to enter every dwelling in his
district for the purpose of obtaining
the information required. Enpmera-
tors will carry with them at all timex
heir. Identification cards and alsf
sheirh written commission from the
government which they will she's
Whenever requested to do 50. They
ire instructed to be~always courteous
md considerate, but in those rafe
Eases where information necessary
% fill out the questions is denied
hem, they are empowered by law to
INSIST on correct answers. There are
egal penalties for refusing to answer
he Genus questions or wilfully Civ
ng answers that are false.
DATA TO BE KEPT SECRET
Each enumerator is prohibited by
ng any information obtained through
he census regarding any individual
II his affairs. This Obligation to Sc
recy likewise applies to all persons
onnected with the census. After the
are filed on they are
called up and sent to Warrington,
where the information is tabulated by
means of machinery, names being
discarded entirely. No person, there
ore, need fear that his personal af-
airs will be disclosed or that the in
ormation given will be used to harm
i'm in any way.
1t is expected that the work of emu
lerating urban districts will be com
leted in two weeks and of rural dis
riots in one month, except where Sc
ere weather makes it necessary to
ostpone activities.
In addition to the census of popu-
alton, the enumerators will secure
n agriculture census and it is prob
BILE later a census of manufacturing,
inning and other industrial activi-
les will be taken. The information
ecured in the population census is
lost complete, each person visited
eng required to furnish the follow
lg data:
WHAT YOU MUST TELL
House number or farm where resid-
lg.
Head of family.
Relation to head of family.
Is home owned or rented7
If owned, free or mortgaged9
Sex.
Color or race.
Age at last birthday.
Single, married, widowed or divor-
ed.
Year of immigration if not native
orn citizen.
Naturalized or alien?
If naturalized, year of naturaliza-
ion.
Have you attended school any time
nee Sept. l., 19197
Are you able to read?
Are you able to writeY
Where were you bornf
What is your mother to1gue3
Place of birth of father.
Mother tongue of father.
Place of birth of mother.
Mother tongue of mother.
Are you able to speak English?
Trade, profession or particular kind
: work done, such as spinner, sales
an, laborer etc.