Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-22
FOR
REDUCTION Of
POSTALRATE
Wants Penny
Service With America
ADVOCATES ENGLISH
SPEAKING POSTAL UNION
Enormous Increase Of Business Pre-
dicted in Case New Rate is Adopt
ed by the Governments,
ADVOCATES ENGLISH
SPEAKING POSTAL UNION
(By Richard .Abcrcorn.)

London. July 21.--A twO-cent pos
tai rate between America and the
British Isles is advocated by Henni-
ker Heaton M. p, who has devoted
his life to working for postal reform.
His often successful efforts have more
than once been recognized by the Of
fer of a knighthood, but he has con-
sistently refused title.
MIR. Heaton headed a deputation of
lords and commons to put the case
before the chancellor of the exche-
quer, II. II. Asquith and the postmas-
ter general, Sydney Buxton. In pre-
liminary letter to the press he said:
The arguments for a penny pos
tai union embracing the English
speaking world are simply over
whelming, Every year we send
quarter of a million young, healthy,
Industrious mechanics and laborers-
'desirables to a man-to cultivate the
western prairies, every year these
wanderers remit some S7,750,000 to
the old country"
Twice as many of King Edwards
subjects go to the United States as TO
the colonies. Ten millions of our fif-
teen millions of emigrants went there
during the past century. Public opin-
ion on both sides of the ocean is
strongly in favor of a reform whicn
Injuries none, benefits all, and, by the
multiplication of correspondence pays
its own modest expenses.
THE British postoffice. 1t will prob
ably be found Is benevolently dispos-
ed towards an Anglo-SaXion union.
.tg.fe
ests equal to ours, thinks the penny
rate both beneficial and profitable.
1T may be added that Anglo Amer
Jean trade reaches the stupendous an
mlal total of $695, 900, 600. The
heavy postage is in fact, a tax on
every penny of this before it is earn
ed. Although letters to the United
States cost 2 I'D (5 cents each), four
million letters per annum are sent
with them, in the same bags through
New York, and hundreds of miles
farther into Canada. for one penny
g cents) each. such gIarlng
anomaly can hardly be matched in
Chinese administration.
America is as wide as the Atlantic.
and railway is heavier than sea
freghtage, but the postage every
where is but a penny. 1t is a penny
all over the British empire, even from
London to New Zealand, $4,000 miles.
Yet across the Atlantic. which in these
days rather joins than divides us. the
postage is one and one-half times
greater.
IAN Increase Of $50 per cent mighy
speedily be expected in the volume of
correspondence under the penny rate
thus covering the initial sacrifice Of
revenue"
S#h
Juvenile cigar smoking, which has
become an acute problem in Great
Britain, has been Investigated by a
government committee Startling evi-
dence of the extent of the evil has
been given, one tremendous fact cited
being that 00,000,000 cigarettes in
two-Cent packets are sold in a week.
Mr.. Castor, an American business
man in London, whose sister origlnat-
ed the anti-cgarette campaign in
America, told the committee that the
American cigarette is the worst thing
our country sends to you--Worse than
Chicago timed meat" He went on
to give horrifying details of the man.
ufacture of cheap cigarettes in Amer
lea, how they are drugged. etc, ana
described the legislation against cigar
cite smoking in various states.
The committee will probably rec-
ommend i'm its report an act to pre-
vent cigarettes being sold to boys, and
~erhaps a prohibtlve duty on cigar
cites imported from America.
sMs
George Bernard Shaw has taken the
latest fashionable "cure"-the balloon
cure The arial treatment for nerves
which Aeronaut Spencer says is the
most rapid cure ever invented was
tried by the British Ibsen in company
| with company of ShaVlan players
from the Court theater.
The balloon made an ascent OF
nearly two miles and descended al
| Chobhem, In Surrey
Mr.. Shaw caused a mild sensation
the previous evening at the fashiona'
! BILE Bath club. where a society swim
| ming contest was held. For the first
| time probably In his life. the Shadow
OF Shakespeare was wearing boiled
shirt" Hitherto he has always worn
soft-fronted shirts, denouncing starch
as white mud"
Lady Constance Stewart Richard.
son better known in the United state:
under her maiden name or Mackenzie
! has not abandoned on her marriage
| the atheticism In which she excelled
She has just given a display OF fancy
diving at the Bath club for charita'
BILE object.
Americans will remember how Ladl
| Constance Mackenzie startled them By
shooting alllgators in Alabama, play
ing polo with men in a mans saddle
and other strenuous pastimes.
Lady Constance has a passion fol
adventure and a partlality for MALI
attire. In Somallland during the lat'
.o o., M ION oha rnda aprneg fha anun