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than the amount we pay the railroads for mail
transportation"
Now that you running the department at a
profit, the magazines will claim that you afford to
carry them at the old rates, will they not?'
They may claim So" said the postmaster general,
but that is why Uncle Sam should do
large losing business to fill the pockets of the pub
fishers think that they realize the unfairness of
their position and that shall have amicabe
arrangement which will result in the advertising
lions paying their share of the freight"
The Railways and the Mails.
How about the railways, they not greatly over
paid for mail transportation"
Il would not say that" replied the postmaster
general THE department. demands a great deal of
the railroads 1t must have special facilities and the
government ought to pay for them. We now
spending $50, 900 a year for that sort of
transportation and do not know that it is much.
believe however that we down some of our
requirements and that by coming together with the
railroads make such new arrangements will
greatly reduce the cost of carrying the mails both to
the railroads and the department. In this way the
saving will be divided between the two and the rail-
ways need not lose what they now making
for mail transportation In order to know just what
the rate should be have called upon the various rail-
way companies to report fully to the rates they
receive for the transportation OF other classes of
and also data to their operation and expenditures
find old law which provides that the postmaster
general has the right to do this; and number the
leading railroad managers have already come to see
concerning it. There is doubt in my mind but
that shall come to amicabe settlement"
Parcels Post.
here asked to the parcels post which in Europe
has almost displaced the express companies The post
master general replied:
THE conditions in Europe are different from those
OF the United States There you have vast popua-
ton crowded inside narrow boundaries. Here we
have widely separated Cities and many regions where
there almost people whatever. The only way
could have parcels post would be by dividing the
country into zones and increasing the postage rate
according to the distance the article is be carried
1t is matter Of study and experiment We are going
to try the parcels post with certain rural delivery
routes, and will be able to send packages weighing
to eleven pounds and from the various postof-
fces which these belong This is an expert
ment and if successful it may lead to general use
of the parcels post system You see we can test this
rage as each rural delivery man has his own vehicle
the parcels"
'Wil you introduce automobiles for the rural de-
livery?"
Yes; already doing so. and we expect
to increase that feature of the service. There are
many states. such New Jersey Delaware and parts
of New England where the roads are excellent There
and in other places where the country is flat auto
mobiles be used to great advantage. With them
consolidate the routes and one man can cover
twice as much ground as he does now. He can de-