MARYLAND FARMERS HANDICAP CENSUS TAKERS, BELIEVE THEY ARE PROHIBITION SPIES OR TAX INVESTIGATORS
Baltimore (JFK+50) On January 5, 1925, The Evening Star reports work of Maryland's farm census is being handicapped because farmers believe census enumerators "are either prohibition spies" or government income tax investigators.
The report's source is John S. Dennee, statistician of the Department of Agriculture in charge of the Maryland census.
Mr. Dennee says that the farmers' concerns are "groundless." He adds that some farmers feel they are "responsible to no one" and what they do on their own farms is "no affair of the government."
SOURCE
"Farmers Hamper Census, Treating Takers As Spies," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 5, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
