The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-04-08
WASHINGTON NOTES
Use Stamped Envelopes.


the Postoffice Department to increase
the use of stamped envelopes instead
of those which have to have a stamp
affixed.
In furtherance Of this endeavor A.
L. Lawshe, Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General, has issued a highly OF
nate circular describing and illustrat-
ing the different sizes and colors of
the envelopes the government has
on sale. This has been distributed
by the letter carriers who, forgetting
for the moment the length of their
routes and the weight of their sacks
of mail, have for the most part. en-
tered into enthusiastic details as to
the cheapness and convenience and
altogether desirablencss Of this class
Of postoffice wares.
"Everyone who uses government
stamped envelopes is aiding the Post
office Department in improving the
service,' is what Lawshe's circular
says, and, in addition. it enumerates
several advantages which are to 5e
obtained from their use.
For instance, it points out that
stamps may be easily lost, misappro-
priated, or may become useless by
sticking together. Also a stamp may
drop off in the mail, and then there
is the time consumed in affixing the
stamp as an item of consideration.
All of these difficulties, the circular
; says, are overcome by using the
stamped envelopes.
Then when purchaser is willing
TO buy as many as 500 stamped en-
velopes at a time, the government
, will print his name and address in
, the upper left hand corner without
, any extra charge. The advantage Of
| this is that such envelopes do not
| find their way TO the dead latter of.
flee. If the addrew cannot be found
, the letter is returned without extra
/ postage to the sender. Such enve-
lopes, if misdirectcd, are redeemable
at the Postoffce from original pur-
chasers only at full stamp value
This is not true of adhesive stamps.
The Postoffice Department sells
the envelopes in various sizes, colors,
and qualities, but the most usual size
can be obtained for about eight for a
cent, stamp value extra. Thus eight
! two-cent envelopes would cost about
seventeen cents. One can get them
In white, amber, blue, buff or ma
, Mia.
Officials Of the internal revenue
bureau of the Treasury Department
are of the opinion that the temper
ance movement, which has taken
such strong hold of certain sections
OF the country, particularly in the
South, has resulted in increasing the
number of violations of the internal
revenue laws in the distillation of il
licit whiskey.
Recent reports indicate that in
many Southern States, especially in
Alabama, Georgia and North Caro-
lima there has been greater activity
on the part of the lawless mountain
element, who always have been
troublesome to the revenue agents,
than in many years. These three
States now have laws prohibiting
distifler!es from operating within
their borders. In Alabama the law
went into effect on July |. 1908; in
Georgia on January I, 1908: and in
North Carolina January l, 1909.
Many Legitimate distiIleries have
moved to Florida and other States
where the inhibition does not exist.
Whiskey being more difficult to OBJ
tain III legitimate way has greatly
increased the profits of Illicit distill-
ing, with the result that the activi-
ties of the internal revenue bureau
at this time is largely directed to-
wards the mountain sections Of these
three States.
Eleven members were in their
seats Saturday when the House of
Representatives met to further con-
slider the Payne tariff bill. 1t was
the smallest attendance of the special
session and demonstrated the fact
that interest in the debate had prac-
tically disappeared.
Mr.. Sparkman Democratic), IF
Florida, opened the discussion by
making an earnest ulea for restora-
tion of the Dingley rate on lumber
and the imposition of duty Of 5
cents pound on all cotton imported
into the United States.
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