Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
CENSUS ARMY OF 100000 GETS
PRUNING FOR WORK APRIL q
100000 Homes Throughout United
States to Be Visited in Quest Of
Data for Uncle Sam.

+ from individuals only to permit the
compilation OF such general statistics"
said the proclamation. mo person can
| be harmed in any way by furnishing
the information required The census
! has nothing to do with taxation, with
military or jury service, with the com
pulSion of school attendance. with the
regulation of immigration or with the
enforcement Of any national, State or
local law or ordinance. There need be
no fear that any disclosures will be
made regarding any individual person
or his affairs For the due protection
of the rights and interests of the per-
sons furnishing information every en-
ploye of the Census Bureau is pro-
hibited under heavy penalty from dis
closing any information which may
have thus come to his knowledge"
The comprehension Of the census is
indicated by questions which relate to
relationship to head of family, with a
each family; whether home is rented
or owned and the rental or value;
whether the family owns a radio;
whether family lives on farm; sex:
color or race; age; marital condition;
place of birth, and of mother and IA
ther; mother tongue of each foreign
born: whether employer, employe or
WOTkJIlR
whether actually at work, and whether
veteran OF the military or naval forces.
Through a schedule of questions a
census of unemployment will be taken,
which, according to Director Steuart,
will be a basis for further estimates,
relieving us from such wide uncertainty
as compelled President Harding'S con-
ference on unemployment to report that
the unemployed numbered from $780,
IfC ~ kNn
census will furnish q picture of the
unemployment situation as indicated
not only by the number unemployed but
by the attendant circumstances of un-
EMPLOYMENT. 1t will bring the answer
to certain fundamental questions about
which nothing definite is known at
present"
Problem Of Distribution.
Similarly, agencies through which
goods are distributed from the producer
to the consumer viii be asked to give
information from which census off1cials
hope to make available statistics which
will show the points of strength and
weakness in our system OF distributing
goods.
In the important work of learning
about unemployment. persons having
al Uub AlOb dt WO1A 0b OAC
time the census is taken will be grouped
into two main clasSes-those who have
a job but are temporarily laid of on
account of lack of orders, bad weather
sickness, ETC., and those who are able
to work and want work but cannot
find it.
A group of questions has been Sc
lected and arranged for each group by
an advisory committee composed of 25
leaders of representative labor organi-
cations, financial institutions, industrial
groups and universities. The commit
tee spent several weeks studying pro-
posals of various groups before compil-
ing the questions. The day before the
census is taken" has been adopted by
the Census Bureau as a basis for de-
termining unemployment. because in a
great many instances the census taker
will have to get the information from
a woman member of the family who Is
at home when he calls.
The day before the census enumerator
arrives has been decided upon as the
basis for determining unemployment,
the Census Bureau points out, for the
reason that "the male members of the
family may be away from home looking
for job, and in such cases the woman
will not be able to say whether her hus-
band or son has found job and is at
work that day." The bureaus depend