Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-20
FARMERS ADVOCATE
PARCELS POST
SYSTEM
Benefits to Local Merchants
Alleged by National 0rgani-
zationi Plenty of ThankSgiy-
ing Turkeys This Year,
special oorrespondcnee to Morr4a- ,ournnn

ing ufKeyS ms rear,
Especial Correspondence TO Morr<ss Journal
Chicago. Nov. 15-The benefits 10
local merchants of q parcels post
system In the United States. quite
promoters OF organizations Of retail
merchants, now are urged by the
Farmers National congress as one Of
the reasons for action By congress.
This new turn to the argument was
given by John NJ. stahl OF Chicago. a
representative Of the Farmers IN
greas, who declared THE parcels
post privilege certainly would benefit
local merchants everywhere in the
country for II viii make trading with
them by the rural people SO conven-
lent. Merchants are really injuring
themselves by opposing the limited,
rural route, parcels post, for as the
farmer Is now compelled to go to the
village to deliver or TO receive pack
ages he very frequently takes the
train tc 20 TO the larger town or city
70 buy the goods he needs. Any close
observer in the western states, where
mail order trading Is perhaps the
greatest, knows that what takes most
from the trade OF the local merchants
is not the mail order houses. but h
low railway fares TO the larger cities.
If the merchant could SEND by rural
carrier goods ordered of him by mail
telephone, as result of n parcels
post system, millions Of dollars of
erohandisc now bought Of the big
mail order houses would be bought
Of or through the merchant. A com
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efit town and city people ever more
than farmers, but II certainly viii
millions Of farmers, will in
rrease trade of local merchants and
soon would wipe out the postal de-
IivIt." Contrary 10 supposition. the |
pig mall order houses in recent years
a 81 opposed rather than advocated /
parcels post for they are well sat
sfied with present arrangements
With the express companies and long
realized hat Il parcels post sys-
would put local merchants on a.
,arity with them in the delivery OF
FOODS by mail.
A bank managed by women and
.hildren. which has been launched in
Chicago suburb of Edison Park
VIII give particular attention TO en-
.ourH cling children TO cDen accounts.
'he hanks capital Is to he SIS. 900.
Women only signed the application
or Incorporation and q woman at
orney, Mrs. Antoinette Funk. drew
papers. Woman's intuitive judg-
nent, which in other banks has
.roved sound. IS TO have fun play in
institution and 60 an extent ii
arely has in domestic affairs or
.usiness, Mon VIII DO deposltors as
fu ttaAt,aaFt. d nj Hf,gft nc harrapH- |
s not only viii have to convince a
oan committee the loan viii be paid,
at also-as women often have 60
onviuCc their husbands-that the
lonoy viii serve a useful purpose.
The woman who waltzcd with her s
ushand for nearly fifteen hours, SO
ing that police stopped them, has Z
hallenged Chicago walters to enter {
marathon race with her. Ethel {
.artman says waltzing property done Z
scarcely exercise AT all. '
The large supply Of turkeys I
lroughout the country. according to [
ports to Chicago. IS one fact to re- q
ON Thanksgiving Day. The 9
~ weather which amounted TO a I
i'm many states was a blessing J
the young turkeys whose greatest u
.enace always is rRin-soaked iungles =
grass through which their ener- v
'tic mothers always Insist in taking :,
on expeditions after the elusive =
lg, The cranberry crop is the best, =
rgest and cheapest that has come u
q the market for q number 0i years. =,
therefore This Thanksgiving dinner =,
in be an old-fashioned feast at no y
rohihitive expense. Almost annually -
~ several years reports have gone =
AZ from the middlemon in Chicago !,
other cities that the turkey short :,
20 rs acute and that prices probably y
be high These shortages nave r
It been relieved sny by the enter =;
efforts OF the dealers 10 buy I,
, every available fowl well in adj !,
nice of the feast end either market ;,
during tho THANKSGIVING dc :,
and or hold them for even larger al
"a the Christmas season. The G,
'tUto and also sweet potato crop M
II also be- plentiful to help reduce Y
e. cost OF that one great occasion u
Americans when o|yerating is the h
le ana the reason 3or The feasting n
all but submerged in the modern al
.crost In football pi
The petition for change of venue ~ y
T. federal cases against the Chicago "a
ckers which ARE TO be argued No
mbcr 16 are based on "a nominal II
injection of Judge lands with an RI
s%estigution of the packing business Il
fifteen years ago. The investi- r
ton was started by congressional OF
aud Judscn Harmon. now w
vernon OF ohio. then attorney gem n
ll. under President Cleveland. APP m
.utel kcnesaw NJ. lands. then a 81
ung lawyer OF four years expert Sc
co at the federal bar. To- do the in ~
stigating. This inquiry never got d5
e because no money had been ap-
1priHted for tho Investigation. At
40 time meme of the corporations
" under fire. Armour and COM pr
ny. switt ana company, Morris and wi
and the National Packing IN
were in existence. The PEE or
non for change of venue from pi
dye lands OF the federal district pr
to the federal circuit court did y
{ allece D "a Judge lands Is '
Cr would not give a fair ~
a honest trial. or that his judg- ~
mt WAS warped. but was based upon =
.lauso in the federal statute which
rs that OBJ change OF enu shall be
lnted whenever il appears that the ~
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