The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-02-19
RURAL ROUTES
ARE QUITE SAFE
PostoffIce Department Has No
Thought Of Cutting Them,
Despite the Deficit.
WORTH THE COST INVOLVED
saI'ingerPinchot Row stirs Up Much
Bitterness In Washington-PubIic
Hearings Are Likely to Be
Lively.

1
Washington.-Congress is makins
every effort that 1t can to find a way
to cut down the expenses of govern
ment. In former years there has beer
the appearance Of striving aftel
saving rather than a real saving It
self, but this year results are being
accomplished. 1t can be said, how.
ever, that while there will be pairing
OF expenses in practically all the ap.
preparation bills there will be no at.
tempt to curtail expenditures which
VIII cripple the rural mail deliveries
OF the country.
POSTMASTER General Hitchcock was
the last OF the cabinet chiefs to hand
IN his annual report. He had a hard
problem to solve. The demands made
oy the people on the postoffice de-
partment are greater year by year,
and there is always resentment of any
recommendation that an increased
price should be added to any service
rendered by the department to the
people. Perhaps the country will have
one-cent f1rst-class postage some time
IN the near future, for while the cost
OF maintaining the department is in
creasing 1t Is hoped that means viii
De found to make the revenues great
er and yet to allow q decrease In the
cost Of letter postage.
The postmaster general IL q firm
believer in the rural route system.
The delivery Of letters through the
country districts costs the govern
ment several millions of dollars year
more than the returns, but the i'm
mense convenience to the people who
live outside of the great centers more
tnan overbaIances. in the eyes Of the
department chiefs. the extra money
needed to continue the service.
Ambitious Plans on Foot.
Demands win be made during the
next year to hnd some place in which
the jostofice department expenses
may be cut materially, and some
means BY which the income may be
Increased without affecting the purses
Of the great body Of the people. II
the present postmaster general can
put his department on paying basis
ne will count 1t q victory sufficient to |
make his administration stand in 4
bright light There seems to be little
nance. however that Affairs can be |
- arranged tnat the pages of the |
edger OF the postoflce department !
WI balance themselves at the end OF |
NC next year.
One tning can be taken for granted.
l s,, ,u'al route service OF the country |
WI De strengthened year by year.
wen tnougn It be necessary to weak
= some OF the other branches OF the
ervice.
Satisfied with AntI-Trust Law.
President Taft seems To have founa
o his own satisfaction. as shown bv
is recent message. that the sberman
nti-trust law IL equal 10 eveyv A.
nand that the country make. NJ -
his Is the presidents LEGAL on,r,or
nd until some greater LAWYER Or law.
ers or group of Judges ana to tha
ontrary 1t probably will have to
tano. Inc fact that the interests
las nave aetackeo tne sherman law
avg oeen 30 olame.ricaly opposed to
pc announcer seems 70 have convinced
le president tnat the law must be q
,o.'y SOU one AT any rate ne has
s'eeu .na. re"an unchanged on ,
= g s'a'u'o oooAs. Il
inere are severai celebrated cases
pon wn,cn tne supreme court OF the
n'.eu States mas YET 10 pass judg- I
sn.' Eases wnicn came into the !
'urts as = result OF the entering of
'veInment prosecution under the q
herman law. Inc case OF the Stand {
q vi COMPANY which was decided I
. -, 70 the great corporation.
~ ZONE before tne nign court with
snor' ume. me lower court.
nlcn sat "a the CITY OF st. Louis. de- {
Areo the STANDARD oh Company to t
colpolaslon N restraint of trade. c