Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-09-19
mot A WORD ON
POLITICS HAS !
HITCHCOCK
Postmaster General EnthuSeS
on the Deficit but Shuts Up
Like a Clam on What Hap
pened to Arizona.

Mr.. Hitchcock was evidently still
sensitive about the Arizona PROPOSE
ton when he reached California re-
Gently. He wouldn't say beans about
politics. The San Francisco Chronicle
says:
Fresh from his vacation on horse
back in the southwest, Postmaster
General Frank II. Hitchcock arrived
here yesterday afternoon and is stay
ing at the st. Francis hotel. He
leaves today for his winters work at
Washington managing the Postoffice
department and reducing the old time
annual deficit to the vanishing point.
MY sympathies are entirely with
San Francisco" Hitchcock said in
speaking of the contest for the loca-
ton of the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton. Personally, | have always had
an admiration for California, but
there is one factor in the fight that
will have great weight throughout the
country, and that is the wonderful
pluck OF the people, which has been
manifested in the rebuilding OF the
city. The last time | was here was in
1907, one year after the fire. and the
results that have been accomplished
since then, as | have seen them in the
streets today. are such as to COM
mand the admiration OF the whole
country. | believe that this will be a
great influence i'm determining the
question as to where the celebration of
the opening of the Panama canal
shall be held, but personally I have
always been for San Francisco"
The postfaster general persistently
refused to talk politics and conducted
his interviewer with plausible grace
away from cabinet corners to descrip-
tons of the snake dance he saw on
the Navajo reservation and to the
work Of the department.
II am ready to talk p~ostoffice at all
times he aid There is the postal
savings bank work. which is most in
teresting. 1t is going to meet a real
need, n not Interfere with the banks
the circulation at all. And the
extension of the rural free delivery is
another part of the work of the de-
partment that is most interesting. The
rural delivery is an established in
1t is costly. but il is a great
service for the people living in rural
and its extensions will be
part of my winters work.
But whe it came 10 the subject Of
the postal deficit. Hitchcock spoke
with the zeal of an enthusiast.
w used to think we were doing
well when We cut a million off the
l%eflctt,' he said. looking across the
room to Arthur Fisk for assent. But
last year we cut it down by $4,000. 900.
and within the next two years there
will be no deficit in the postoffice de-
lartment. This will he done with. /
tut Impairment of the service In any
particular, n simply by better or
;anization of the work OF the de-
Hitchcock. who was born in Ohio
md finished at Harvard. is agrees |
youthful in appearance. He
Won "A reputation as an organizer.
nd has been called the human card
He won his cabinet position |
because he won the election for Taft /
3 chairman Of the Republican Ma /
lonal committee. His methods have
ometimes been called su%bterranean.
because his manner is plausibly d.
ect. He has even beer accused of
'eing handsome. and he looks thr
inner in all his six feet of athletic
rame.
We think in Washington that San
francisco has one of the best most
'asters in the department. was his
ribute to Fisk.