The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-02-16
HIRAM.


correspondence
A large portion of our people were
Justly indignant, few weeks ago,
when they learned that our mail SER
vice had been curtailed. by taking off
one trip per day from this place to
Garrettsville, thereby occasioning very !
great Inconvenience, and, in some in
stances, damage. Everybody denied
all knowledge of how or why the order
curtail:ng the service was procured. |
But on application to the p. o. De-
partment, it was ascertained that the |
order was issued at the request of the
College authorities, for the reason that
an evening mail-due at p. m.-in-
terfered with College discipline. Such
a reason for such an act is too ridlcu-
lous for belief, but it is nevertheless
true.
While the people were cussing and
discussing this most reprehensible act,
they were still more surprised when,
without warning or the least intima-
ton, they learned last week that Mr..
Streator, our worthy postmaster, had
resigned, and Mr.. ID. H. Beaman had
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. Streator has held the office for sew
eral years, and during his whole term
has been most obliging, competent
and efficient officer, and the patrons of
the office, one and all, part with his
services with sincere regret. The rea-
son given by him for his resignation
is that he has been run over by GER
, tain class till he could endure it no
longer. Thus have the people been
: sneakingly and cowardly deprived of
J a good part of their mail facilities, and
r faithful. competent and Cbliging Off
f Ger been literally forced to resign his
t position, for the reason that a College
: faculty are too indOlent or incOmpe-
: tent TO enforce discipline. The way
to build up All institution, of whatever
laudable nature, is to build up every
thing that is legitimate around it. 1t
is sometimes beneficial to have oppo-
: sition, but that opposition should be
D open, fair and candid, not secret and
" deceptive, nor violent and demonstra:
il tive, 1t is opposition that prevents
e stagnation and consequent decay. A
g Church. or any other institution, that
has no opposition will die of inactivity
3 No institution should attempt to sub
II ordinate everything TO itself, no more
l. than an individual should attempt tC
- make the whole world conform to hi:
It ideas, for if the individual should sue
n cead, moral stagnation would ensue
l. There are a very few men who Cal
q successfully manage diversified inter
e ests at the same time, but the numbe
e is comparatively small. If the bust
l. ness he is engaged in is such as to re
,r quire his whole attention, or the great
II er part of it, it is extremely difficult
is for him to succeed in another under
y taking requiring as much time and at
:" tention as the first. If an individual
l. has charge of an institution, which &
70 he successful requires his whole TIM
i and attention, il is extremely hazard
=, GUS, in this cultured and enlightened
ie age, to engage in literary pursuits en-
r. tirely foreign to his first calling. j
y will be a rare case If he succeeds il
y. y, both at the same time. More probable
,s that his institution will suffer, and Iii
G. literary efforts will mOlder into obliv
20 ion on dusty and unfrequented shelves
. A strange phenomenon was witness
,e ed on our streets few days ago. Fou
l. indiyiduals, mot in company passe'
through our place, returning-as W.
e were afterwards informed-from Gar
N rettsville, all of whom were peculiarl.
r affected. They were unable to main
le tain an upright bearing. bodies limp
y speech thick and incoherent, eyes dul
At and heavy, and senses dull. One vom
u tied profusely. The atmosphere at til
time was thick and haZy, and some
what impregnated with the odor Q
petroleum from Cleveland-the win'
was nOrthwest-and as our friend
- were riding against the wind, it is sup
!, posed that effected them. AS other
, passing through from GarrettsvilI
=" have been similarly effected when tn
conditions of the atmosphere were dill
- ferent, the petroleum idea is not &C
,f cepted. We hope for a correct solution
of the peculiar circumstances. H.