Show WRONG CENSUS VIEWS no harm can come to any person who answers aws aers the Qu Que quelin eliu stiens wellington marcot Z 2 1919 lettera letters frem the cedras supervisors to the united states census bureau show the erroneous apprehension of a consider able element of the population that their answers to the next census begin nine april 15 this year will wili cause increased taxation legal entanglements or injurious injun oua consequences to their persona persons and property in order to quiet luch such fears which would unless removed materially affect the accuracy racy of the census c th thy bureau haa has pie prepared pared an official statement relative to the decennial census tta its origin purpose and uses this statement should furnish corn com pleto assurance to those concerned that information given the enumerators Is s held bj by the census bureau in th the strictest confidence with reference to the identity of the informant informants aa an required by the policy of the bureau and commanded by the law of the united states the bureau earnestly hopes that clergymen priests physician physicians teachers employers and other public spirited citizens who come in contact with large numbers of people will cooperate with the bureau by telling persons persona who are believed to entertain erroneous opinions of the census the real facts and urging them to give full replies to the enumerators teacher teachers are particularly requested to speak of the cenius to the school children and ask them to tell their about it the statement issued by the bureau explains that the constitution requires a census of the population to be taken every ten years in order to reapportion state representation in the national house of representatives it is the means also to ascertain the increase in the population tio agriculture industries and resources of the nation since the last census it is emphatically beclar d by the abatement statement that the information bought sought from the people of the united states is used solely for general statistical purposes it will delther be published nor used in any other way tn disclose facts regarding any individual or enter prise the census it goes on to aay say ta Is net rot never has been and can not be employed to obtain information that cn bemused be used in any way in the assessment of property for purposes of taxation or the collection of collection of taxes either national state or local or for deportation proceeding proceedings extradition i measures army or navy conscription internal revenue investigations compulsory school at child labor law prosecutions quarantine regulations or in any way to affect the life liberty or property of any person it points cut ut that replies to the enumerator enumerators mera me tors are and must be held by the census burea burela in strict and absolute confidence all the bureau officials supervisors clerks enumerators and interpreter before et etienn upon their duties are obliged to take a solemn oath not to disclose an information they may obtain except to the census bureau burau and a violation of the united states law in tn regard to this oath mean means a 1000 fine or imprisonment for two years or both in the discretion of the court |