The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-22
Report on Postal Affairs.

states. alluding 10 King Edward and
President Roosevelt has the two great
peacemakers of the world.
Report on Postal Affairs.
The association committee on postal af-
fairs submitted a report today. which. af-
ter referring 10 the postmaster general 5
report about weighing mails. says:
From figures given it is evident that
the newspapers. daily and weekly are
sixty per cent of the total. The religious.
Scientific and educational publications
combined do not constitute eighteen per
cent of the total. and consequently they
are not serious factors in the postal prob
lem The magazines instead of swamp
ing the mails as has been supposed. prov
ed to be an inconsiderable part of the
total. less than one-fifth.
The extent to which the country week
iy figures in free county circulation is
not disclosed, but 1t is estimated that the
contribution to the government on that
score may be put at $4,000 per annum.
The sample copy, which is described
by the postal commission as the fountain
Of the gravest abuse costs the govern
ment $S09,S20 per annum.
Departments Mistake.
These figures indicate that the post
office department has made a mistake
in attibuting most of the abuse of the
Second-ciaSs rate to sample copies or else
the count of sample copies is wrong
Congress probably will create another
body to take up the work inaugurated
by the recent commission. and it is prob
able that discussion and study of the
proposed postal code may suggest modi-
t1cations which will clear a way out of
existing complications.
Some of the proposed changes are dis
tlnctly advantageous. but the explanation
of them in the report showed a lack of
tact. provoking needless antagonism. The
Ff esent statute is uncomfortable. Every
effort TO apply it prOvOles irritation and
10 aF n Norrv,,
ton of censorship. New rules are neces-
sary- it is believed that after the sub
ject had been threshed out by another
period of inquiry and study some sub
stantial gain may be obtained for the
government and for those interests that
disseminate current public information or
treat current topics in relation TO 'litera-
ture. the sciences, arts or some special
industry.
The new arrangement should dispose of
the standing charge that legirimate sec
ond-elass mail is responsible for the postal
deficit.
In view of the fact that the work of
| inquiry is to be continued on larger and
more Intelligent basis. your committee
! asks that it be continued"
News cit TO Print
Rev Frank P Hail. pastor of the
Divine Paternity (Universalist), in this
| city, spoke on the topic, Fit to Print.
/ He said:
There has been a great deal said abou.
| the publication Of all the facts in Ger
tain trial which is attracting public at
tentiOn now. | believe if the truth were
told we should find that not half the
facts were told. If it were all told We
might find that not only one but a num-
Der of men there are who make Ii the
pleasure OF their lives to drag down little
girls, and then when they have started
them on the way to hell push them on in.
If this is true, let US know it and then.
having the facts, why you and together,
as newspaper men and ministers, will en-
deavor to raise such a public brainstorm
as to make the lives of some of these men
somewhat less interesting and playful
than they have been in the past"
The speech was loudly cheered.
Officers Elected.
At the business session the following Of
ficers were elected: President, Herman
Ridder. of the New York Stats Zeitung
vice president Medill Mccormick. of the
Chicago Tribune: secretary, Ebert n.
Baker of the Cleveland Plain Dealer +,
treasurer F. p Call. of the New York
Commercial S. P. Weston, of the Seattle
Post IntelIigencer; Charles W. Hornick,
of the San Francisco Call, and Charles H.
Taylor jr.. of the Boston Globe, were
elected members of the executive commit
tee to succeed themselves