The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09
PRESIDENT 6ENEHAN CAMERONs ANNUAL A0nRFss
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aooern America can build good roads
oS wen as ancient Rome. whose
aodus IN Italy, France, and England.
- thousand years old. The adj
vent OF the automobile is one of the
most potent causes that demands
tnese roads. But they are none The
% neeo1ul to the farmer in his
any NE. And indeed gooC roads is
,ne issue that is paramount with the
american people.
Parcels Post.
ana along with good post roads. we
want a Parcels Post to be eoual with
the other leading nations of the earth.
ANA it is a shame that the ruraI
districts have not had this facility
py reason Of the opposition of the
express Companies, for their opposi-
tlon might fairly be expected, but
mere Is no ground for any other
just opposition. For the local mer-
chants would get many orders over
the telephone for goods to come by
.he rural carrier. And with good
.uaos ana carriers in automobiles,
the delivery Of the mails and the par
cells would be much prompter. And
me service more cheaply rendered.
Inc Secretary of the Postal PROGRESS
League, Mr.. J. U. Coles, says, that
Under the bill introduced by Con-
gresham w. S. Bennett, the pro-
posed Improvement in the Rural
service would increase the Postal
Revenue from $4,000, 900 to $40, OOO,-
oOO a year. And the posting of but
two four-pOund parcels per. year per
head, at the new eight cents per pound
rate, would increase the merchandise
lncome, from $S,OOO,OO0 to $5O,OOO,-
900; and in addition, the posting OF
out n four-pound sealed parcel a
year per head of the estimated IS
100000 urban population, in the con-
templated two-cent four ounce letter
post, would add another $4,000, 900.
Postmaster General Meyer just be-
fore he exchanged positions in the
Cabinet in a letter to Senator Burn
ham says 1.-The service can be rem
dered at a cost we'll within the rates
recommended, that is II cents a
pound. The present rate on the Gen
eral Parcel Post is 16 cents per
pound. The present rate on the Gen
eral Parcel Post is Is cents per
pound. for people in our own coun-
try, the limit Of weight being four
pounds; while the rate from the
United States to twenty-nine foreign
countries is L cents a pound and the
limit of weight in t~wenty-four of
these countries, is II pounds" Thus
the Postmaster General showed that
not only would parcels post pay it's
way, but that it would produce a sur
plus.
The United National Association of
postoffice clerks at their annual ses-
sion at Atlantic City. declared for
the extension Of the Postal System,
particularly the Parcels Post. The
National Grange has done the same.
So that the opportunity Of securing
this much desired service is, 1 be-
lieve, near at hand. as is also
Postal Savings Banks.
For Mr.. Jay at the American
Bankers Association, at Chicago, in
September, says: "Since we met in
1908, a question in which we are vi
tally interested, the safety Of our bank
deposits, has been made one of the
major issues in a great political cam
paign. The result has been the cleo
ton of a President, pledged by his
platform, to create Postal Savings
Banks. It is therefore of transcen-
dant Importance that the savings de-
posts, when taken by commercial
banks and trust companies, should be
required by law to be significant from
other deposits, and invested in those
securities in each State, which are
considered the safest and the best.
Else we are free to face with Postal
Savings Banks legislation For the
platform on which that president was
saws, 1.-The Parcels Post sys-
tenn should be rapidly and widely ex-
tended, and Government Postal Saw
ings Banks should be established.
Where the peoples deposit will be Sc
cure, h money to be loaned to the
Of the locality of the several
Postal Banks and at a rate of interest
TO be fixed by the government" In
the last few days a President has
said that rate would be too low to
interfere with Commercial Banks.
Therefore he hopes they will with
draw their objection. But there are
numerous agricultural communities
where there are no commercial banks,
and where the Postal Savings Banks
-. -lool ho q ovoaf hOnn horo-