Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-31
nEFOni ON MAIL MA ER.
Joint Postal investigating Committee
Make Recommendations.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 2S.-The
report of the joint postal commission
authorized at the last session of con.
gress to investigate the existing law
relative to the second class mail mat.
ter. and to recommend changes. was
made public yesterday. The commits.
sion makes number Of sweeping
recommendations, and has drafted a
measure embodying them.
Among the most important are the
following:
"A newspaper or other periodical
may be in part composed of advertise
ments which are permanently in.
serted in or, attached to the same,
but such advertisements shall not
constitute more than 80 per GEN.
tum of the superficial area of any
issue of the publication; nor shall any
advertisement be printed on card,
cloth or any substance other than
paper, nor upon paper great weight
than the text of such publication.
IAN issue Of a newspaper or other
periodical may be composed OF parts
or sections, but all such parts or sec.
lions shall be made of the same size,
form and weight of paper, and shall
when taken together form one COM
plete and identifiable whole.
Supplements shall rot be printed
on any other substance than paper
nor, except in the case of maps and
plans illustrative of the text of the
text, shall be of different form. from
the main body of the publication. No
supplement shall be composed of or
contain advertisements.
The proposed law requires the SEQ.
ond class rate or periodical publica.
lions consisting wholly or substan.
TALLY of fiction.
With each issue of newspaper or
other periodical the publisher may
mail at the second class rate samples
of such issue, but mot to exceed 10
per centum of the total number of the
copies of each issue mailed by him to
actual subscribers, as the same an.
pears by sworn statement of such
ISSUE"
A postal appeals commission is pro.
vided for to which the proprietor or
publisher of any newspaper or period.
ical which has been denied admission
as second class mail matter may ap.
peal.
The requirement is made that where
an article has been offered for sale
in combination with the subscription
for a newspaper or periodical al.
mitted to the second class, the price
of such article shall be clearly stated
together with the regular advertised
price of the publication.
The report says:
This commission is in accord with
the views of the postmaster general
that the whole business system of the
postal service should be overhauled
by expert accountants and statistician
from outside the department.
1T is believed that this examination
can best be made through the agency
of congress. The commission realizes
that there is a task of great magni-
tude, but it involves, first of all, the
expenditure every year of $l75,0O0,00
1t will shortly inovlve even more than
that, for at the rate at which the pos
tai service is growing 1t will not be
many years before the annual expen.
diture is s25O.0O0,00O, or even $780,.
0O0,O90."
The object Of this plan is not tenn
porary nor a provisional one. 1t is
an attempt to get that gigantic enter
prise known as the postal service
organized once for all upon a sound
economic and administrative basis %