The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-03-25
THE PARCELS POST.

President Barrett, OF the Farmers
Union, is fighting hard for the parcels
post. He says eff the government
wants to keep the farmer on the farm,
and to attract others back to the land,
let the government even up advantages
as between country and city. The par
GELS post is one of them"
In one sentence President Barrett
has covered the whole question.
1t is fact that a man is usually
satisfied il he is in easy reach of town.
The man in the SUBURBS does not care
TO move into the city. He prefers the
pure air and other advantages OF the
outskirts. Put him a little further
out and if he can still see the spires,
and sky scrapers and know that the
city is near he is not worried with a
feeling of isolation. He has his tele-
phone, his daily mail, his good roads
and street car or accommodation train.
No effort is required to keep him in
the country-he goes there voluntarily
and stays there because he prefers to
do so.
Now, we who live in towns and
cities should think of those who are
far out on the farms, and, in a spirit
of true sympathy, endeavor to even up
the advantages, as President Barrett
says. We should do it because it is
right, as we'll as because it is best.
In the first place the farmers are
entitled to good roads and they would
increase travel and the building oil
more farm houses. That would re-
duce the isolation and loneliness oil
farm life.
The telephones are doing a great
deal to put the farmer in closer touch
with town and the neighbors around
him, and we are glad to know the
Southern Bell Telephone Company il
making every effort to extend thai
branch of its business. Country PEG
pie sometimes need the doctor; neeC
to telephone to town; and also like tC
have the means of instantaneous com
munication with the outside world.
We shall never lose an opportunity
to remind the people of the debt they
owe Thomas f. Watson for the worl
he did in Congress in getting the
Rural Free delivery inaugurated. |
is one OF the greatest things ever don,
for the country, and President Barrett
efforts to extend its usefulness by ad
ding the parcels post should be backet
up by all. We wish Thousand letter.
could go from Cobb county to Con
gresham Lee and Senator Clay en-
dorsing the proposition.
We hope to see the day when tn
X. F. d. carriers in Cobb county viii
ride in automobiles over splendid
roads and deliver not only letters ant
papers but all sort Of packages 70
the farmers and their wives. If
farmer needs pound of nails or
handsaw, or pillow point why shoul,
he have to drive six or seven miles t.
get it? Let him telephone to Marriott
and have it go out by the Parcels Post
Meantime he can be at work in hi
field. And If the farmers wife has
few pounds of butter, or some eggs t
sell, why can't the Il. F. ". Parcel
Post bring those articles to the city?
This proposition is not dream. |
is the plainest kind OF common sens
and business. Give the farmer GOO
roads, his daily mail, his telephone
his Parcels Post and he will be "il
town." The surest way to keep hin
in the country is to carry out to hin
every possible comfort and conven
fence of city life. Let's treat him Xix
a brother and give him square deal
for he drives the bread wagon an
carries the key to the smoke house.
DR.. George Brown villa be a candi