The New York herald., 1920-01-02
ARMY OF $4,000
CENSUS TAKERS
START WORK TODAY
Heavy Penalties Confront
Those Who Refuse to Answer
Enumerator's Questions.
Herald Bureau,
No. 1.5O2 III Street, N. W.,
Washington, ID. c., Thursday.

| "All Set" is the word coming tonight
from the United States Census Bureau
here in Washington. Go" will be heard
OF the country to begin taking the four
teenth national count of its population. its
homes. it's farms, mines and live stock
and what 1t is worth In most material
things.
Everything is ready say tho Bureau Of
! ficials, for the most accurate enumeration
since the first one made I'm 1890, when the
people totaled 1923, ,2l4, their farms.
few thousand. and their wealth deemed
unworthy Of recording. This time 1t is
believed there will be more than ILL.,
100000 persons. with more than 100000
farms and no one guesses in figures az
their possessions and prosperity. 1t Will
| take year to tabulate by electric ma
chimes all the data collected, but sooner
than that-perhaps In two weeks. in the
case of big cities-t is expected to make
known results and to follow in record time
with the aggregate population OF the na-
| ton.
It will be lively morning in the districts
| of 372 supervisors, when they let loose an
army of $1,000 enumerators. with their
schedule and pencils to get the facts. II
will be especially so in New York. he~euso
liz has five supervisors instead OF bu< ono
serving in each Of the other cities. AN
have been keyed UP TO make the count
of the city within two weeks IL possible
| To aid in this purpose the greater city
has been divided into smaller canvassers'
districts than formerly. with 4,2ls enumer-
ators TO cover them. Bureau instructions
to these employees dwell upon the necessity
! of thorough work. All buildings are to be
visited. The method Of canvassing a city
block is specifically laid down Each must
| r1At-. in hl a
forth across streets. The work must bs
started on a corner. the enumerator NOV
ing always to the right until he comes out
| at the starting point on each floor. Fami-
lies out ON first visit must be called on
again, at night il necessary.
| The canvasser is given an identification
card which he must show on demand. and
ne NAV warn those who refuse to answeH
his questions of new and more severe
nenalties for this and other misconduct
! He himself nay go TO jail for two years
| il he discloses anything that Is told MN.
! He is paid four cents a name, thirty cents
for each farm and ten cents II he finds
harm in a city or village If he pads or
otherwise fasifies his returns his I'M
| prisonment may be five years.
| peonie ara TO be counted in their usual
nlaee of abode This is regarded as the
place where they sleep. II they are away
any competent person in the house may
answer for them. But visitors. transient
boarders or dodgers may not be enuiner-
ated with family, neither may students
ar children living with IL to attend school,
nor servants who do not sleep IN tne
house. Any member OF the family who Is
in an asylum or public or semi-pubiic in
stitution will be omitted in the list OF that
household Soldiers, sailors. marines and
federal government employees are treated
las residents at their posts of duty AND NOT
las members of the family to which they
Ls,onr or with which they may be living.