Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-28

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ures of only one issue. Multiply them
! by the number of issues thru the year
| and both the loss to the government ans
| the profit to the publishers run UP into
| the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
| The second feature in the reform OF
| the abuses of second-class mail is the
| exclusion Of books and their relegation
to their proper class. The law distinct
iy places books in the third class with
a postage rate of l cent for two ounces.
But thru ralpable evasion of the law
an enormous abuse has grown up in the
transmission at the pound rate OF large
quantities of paper covered books,
printed and issued under the pretense of
being serial publications. They ere In
no sense periodicals. They have none of
the real characteristics defined by law
as marking second-class matter. They
are not continuous or consecutive.
There is nothing in form or substance
or treatment to differentiate them from
books which are confessedly in the third
class and make no other claim. Thru
the mere device of being numbered anu
being called series, witnoG, any true
serial character, they masquerade a
periodicals, to the great loss of the gov
eminent, to the serious prejudice. in
many cases, of the public morals. and
to the grave wrong of the publishers of
better literature who resort to no such
subterfuge. They are not lawfully in
the second class and just administra-
ton of the law requires their exclu-
sion"
The postal revenue from all sources
was as follows:
Sales of stamps, stamped
envelopes. newspaper
wrappers and postal
caruS ............ Sl02, 023, Ala. 03
Second-class postage lib
rates.. paid in money!. 1926. 445. 10
Box rents .................. 2,915. S53 IA
Money order receipts ...... 1,66S ,65929
Receipts from unpaid mon
ey orders more than one
year old .................. 4so, 7554s
Letter postage paid in
money, principally bal
ances due from foreign
postal administrations -. 1s9.412.6s
Miscellaneous receipts ..... 52,172.01
Fines and penalties ........ 30,S29.3
Receipts from unclaimed
!. dead letters -. ......... 15,592.7s
Total receipts ......... Sill, 631, 1893 80
Excess of expenditures over
receipts $3.50. ....., 1928, 72I.4s
The rural free delivery has advanced
with increased strides. Its extension
during the past year has been nearly
three times as great as the whole
amount of service previously estab-
lished. The number of routes in opera
ton at the beginning of the fiscal year
was 1.2I6, and at the close 4,201 During
the current year, with on augmented
appropriation and more experienced
force. the work will proceed still more
rapidly. At the opening of December g.
0O9 routes will be running, and under
by July 1, 1902, to $500.
The rural population now receiving
service is about 100000. and at the end
of the fiscal year it will reach $500 00O
The delivery system will then cover
more than quarter of the eligible por-
ton of the country, and at the present
rate of establishment the entire area
suited to the seryice-that Is. as estf--
mated, 100000 square miles OF territory
with 21000.000 OF rural residences-willI
be brought within its scope in less than
four years. The mail will then. if the
work goes on. be delivered at every door
In the United States except in the most
remote, mountainous and sparseiy set
tied regions where the postofflce is |
within easy reach. The demand for the |
service grows with the public expert
ence of it's convenience and utility.