The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-11-30
FEDERAL CENSUS TO Get
UNDER WAY JANUARY End
Extensive Plans Being Made to
Obtain Most Complete and Full
Report in History of Nation
TO ASK MANY QUESTIONS


The Federal government is making
preparations for the 1910 census, and
it is planned so that its findings will
be more comprehensive and complete
than any previous enumeration.
In fact preliminary plans through
which Oakland and it's trade territory
can be assured a full and complete
report of its population, farm and
business resources, just as all other
towns and cities of the country, are
being made through the Mayors and
Councils of all incorporated towns.
In the attempt to make the census
the most complete and accurate pic
ture Of the community's human and
economic resources ever compiled, civ
ic leaders throughout the land are be-
ing urged to organize by selecting a
general citizens committee just to
stress the census activities and to get
people interested in cooperating with
the census enumerators when they ap-
pear. These committees are to study
the questionaires and other material
supplied by the census bureau in
Washington and to make sure that
other people understand them.
Mayor L. M. Fraley announced that
such committee would be appointed
here in the near future.
What Is To Be Enumerated
Approximately 132,000,000 people
100000 dwelling units.
100000 business concerns.
100000 manufacturing establish
ments.
100000 farms.
About 10000 mines and quarries.
Censues of business, manufacturing,
mines and quarries will start January
2, 1910 and will require about six
months for taking. Censuses of popu-
lation, agriculture and housing will
start April l, 1910, and will be com
pleted in approximately one month.
There are to be about $50 census
districts, corresponding generally to
congressional districts, with district
supervisor in charge of each. He will
open an office late in December, 1889,
or early in January and employ the
necessary staff to take the census in
his district. The $50 districts have
been broken into enumeration districts
of which there will be $4,000. About
121, 900 enumerators will be used for
the population and farm census.
Enumerators, clerks, stenographers,
interpreters and other field workers
will not be selected until 1910.
The census bureau in Washington
has received many inquiries from per-
sons seeking jobs, but the bureau has
stated the positions will be filled
locally and that applicants should
wait until the local office is established
and then secure blanks and informa-
ton at that time. Men and women
will be eligible for census work on
equal terms. War veterans or their
widows are given preference when
equally well qualified with others.
To Ask Many Questions
Earlier censuses have been con-
cerned principally with measuring
quantitatively the expension of the
country in population, territory and
resources. But new things will be
asked this time.
The population schedule will con-
Germ itself with working status, hours
worked, unemployment and usual &C.
equations, amout of wages or salary
for the past IL months, migration, de-
gree of education.
In the housing schedule they will
ask what type and age of structure,
number of rooms, conveniences in
home, including radio, mortgage
status and home finance.
The great change occurring in agri-
culture in the last decade will be re-
corded by the farm census. 1t will note
the important shifts of various crops
and classes of livestock, segregation
of the kinds of farm labor, principal
source Of income, new crops, mechan-
ization Of farms, etc.
The first census of the United
States was taken in 1890, when the
total population of the II states was
3,929,214. Virginia was the most
populous state with 74761O. New
York was fourth with $4,000.
The census of 1910 will be the six
teenth. The per square mile popula-
ton of 1870 was As, and in 1880 it |
was Alb. In 1900 the urban popula-
ton constituted 40 percent and rural
population go percent. In 1880, urban
population had risen to 56.2 and rural
had been reduced to 43.8.