Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-18
MAY PRINT NO MORE
Government to Go Out of
Business. Says Smith.
ADDRESS TO TYPOTHETAE
Californian Says Bill Will Be Re-
ported-Weeks Discussed Postal
Deficit and Postal Savings.
ADDRESS TO TYPOTHETAE

That the House coianitfee on rcst
Offices aud post roads is about TO report
bill to pui the government of the
United States out OF the printing business
for good was III" gist Of y statenrent
made by Representative sylvester (. Smith
OF California today in an address before
the twenty-fourth annual convention OF
the United TNpothet2e Ut America at the
Raleigh Hotel
The subject he referred 10 MAS the
practice OF the Post Office Department. o.
printing return addresses ON stamped en-
Ve'opcs. Mr.. smiths declaration was re-
"cfred with great applause by tic dele
gates. who at the completion - his All
dress gave him rising vote Of thanks
At the same meeting Reprerentst We
John W. Weeks of Massachusetts. chair
man of the House committee. and WHO il
reputed To hc IN favor ct tho present
practice of tho Post Off1cc Department.
declared TO the convention that. wiiir ne
had heard tat he was not popular with
them, he had nothing 10 apoioeizc mr.
After waiting at the Nrii . .ious.a for
about three-qIarters OF an hour the a.ie
gates Of the Typothetae Were lreserl eel
10 the President. who shook each by tic
hand They We're introduced ~ Repre-
sentative Weeks. who had Deen invited
to accompany them to the White Hose
by r. Lawrence Fell, president Of the
Typothetae.
Representative Weeks Address.
The delegates returned at once To the
Raleigh Hotel. There they convened IA
regular session to hear the addresses o.
Representatives Weeks and Smith.
II have not come here" Mr.. Weeks said.
ito make any apologies for my position.
] accepted the Craftsmanship Of the .fom-
mlttee on post Offices and post roads. L
have had trouble ever since"
Representative Weeks declared that
ike many large enterprises, the pust
ONCE did not know exactly what IL cost
to run certain parts of it, business He
suggested ii would be a good idea 10 dis
tribute by freight instead OF fast mai
those periodicals issued less Frequently
than weekly. This, he said. might ma
terially decrease the deficit of the Pos
Office Department.
Speaking on postal savings banks he
implied that he and others in Congress
weEe not much ensincreu wi;h the L. opo-
sition.
Dent. however. that at his. suggestion L
have been working on a bill TO carry out
his ideas on postal savings banks
Representative Weeks did not touch
upon the subject Of the printing by the
Post Office Department OF return ad-
Smith Criticises Press.
Representative Smith criticised the pres
ent day press anG magazines.
There never was a time lie said
when the newspapers and magazines
had less influence for good than they
have .oday.
They deal only in superlatives The,
are not leading the public.
They can't elect a mayor of city. 4.
] wanted to I've elected mayor of u city
the first thing 4 would do would he to go
out and slap every editor in the face.
The people no longer follow tie papers
and il is the papers fault.
THE prescnt-day magazines are 1illed
with utterly hrid tales about government
affairs. Not one page in q hundred thou
sand is devoted 10 telling the good there
Is in the government. The people are
being SUBJECTED with superlative ta.cs uf
wrongs that cannot be substantiated.
The press of the country il riding for
a great fall unless it gets back u the I'D
fashioned way OF stating facts.
Government to Go Out of Business.
The basic principle of our form of gov
eminent is that the work of the country
should be done by the people Of the "Cun-
try said Mr.. Smith. The government
of the United state is government anu
not a business.
1T should get cut of the pi in-tac bus
ness Before many days tho House ma
nittee will report a hill that viii tell IL
to go ont 70" good
He said that rhc same theory that the
government ought not to be business
applied also To the parcels post aEd the
postal bank
we ought to be consistent he said.
although il il not necessary TO be consist
ent in order to be d state man. IL there
is any motto written In invisible letters
above the doors OF Congress IL * Con-
sisfencv is a virtue of small men,
The program for the afternoon ses-
sion included a paper on apprentices
bv Thomas L. DonnelTey OF Chicago.
Discussion opened by Isaac III. Blanch-
ard of New York and j. Stearns Cush-
ing of Boston; paper on pressroom out
nut by H. p Porter of Boston; paper
on offset press. ny Charles e. Falconer-
of Baltimore. Nd: paper on attitude
of printers toward organization, by
clyde Oswald OF New York