The Prescott daily news., 1910-12-06


 savings banks by the postofice de partment of this government by which under general control of trustees, con sisting of the postmaster general, the secretary of the treasury and the at torney general, the system could be beeun in a few cities and towns, and enlarged to cover within it's opera t,ons as many cities and towns and as large a part of the country as seemed wise. The initiation and establish nent of such a system has required . great deal of study on the part of the experts in the postoffice and treas urv departments. but system has now been devised which Is believed to he more economical and simpler in Its oneration than any similar system abroad. Arrangements have been per fected so that savings banks will be opened In some cities and towns on the 1st of January, and there will be gradual extension of the benefits of the plan to the rest of the country"
 'It is gratifying says the president, that the reduction in the postal deficit has been accomplished without anv curtailment of postal facilities. On the contrary, the service has been greatly extended during the year In all it's branches
 Second-clsss Mall.
 "In my last annual message l in- vited the attention of congress to the inadeouacy of the postal rate imposed upon second class mail matter in so far as that includes magazines and showed by figures prepared by experts of the postoflce department that the government was rendering a service to the magazines, costing many mil lions in excess of the compensation paid. An answer was attempted to this by the representatives of the magazines, and reply was filed to this answer by the postofilce depart ment, The utter inadequacy of the answer, considered in the light of the reply of the pOstofice department, think must must appeal to any fair minded person, Whether the answer was all that could be said in behalf Of the magazines is another question agree that the question is one of fact; but I insist that if the fact is as the experts of the postuGlce department show, that we are furnishing to the owners of magazines a service worth millions more than they pay for it. then justice requires that the rate should be increased. The increase in the receipts of the department result ing from this change may be devoted to increasing the usefulness of the de partment in establishing & parcels post and in reducing the cost of first class postage to one cent It has been said by the postmaster general that Q fair adjustment might bo made under which the advertising part of the magazine should be charged for at . different and higher rate from that of the reading matter. This would rs lieve many useful magazines that arc not circulated at . profit, and would not shut them out from the use of the malls by . prohibitory rate.
 With respect to the parcels post, I respectfully recommend its adoption on all rural delivery routes. and that II pounds-the international limit-be made the limit of carriage in such post"
 Abolish Navy Yards.
 The president calls attention to cer. tain reforms urged by the secretary of the navy which he recommends for adoption, and continues:
 The estimates of the navy depart ment are s5,000,000 less than the ap. propriations for the same purpose last year, and included in this is the build ing program of the same amount as that submitted for your consideration last year. It is merely carrying out the plan of building two battleships a year, with few needed auxiliary yes sels. ] earnestly hope that this pro gram will be adopted.
 The secretary Of the navy has given personal examination to every navy yard, and has studied the uses of the navy yards with reference to the necessities of our fleet. With a fleet considerably less than half the size of that of the British navy. We have shipyards more than double the number, and there are several of these shipyards expensively equipped with modern machinery, which. after lnyes. ugauon the secretary of the navy be- heves to be entirely useless for naval purposes. He asks authority to aban. don certain of them and to move their machinery to other places, where it can be made of use"
 The complete success of our ooun.