Holbrook argus., 1912-03-12


 road at low rates and it might be said all the people could use that road, but that, in fact, all citizens except those who lived near it would receive but lit- tie benefit.
 Mir T. J Brooks. of Tennessee, legis lative agent of the Farmers Education al Cooperative Union, stated that a zone system would be much fairer than system of charges regardless of dis tance He said the limit now proposed for government carriage of merchandise by mail was to low to be of practical benefit in carriage of farm products and that it could not be expected that Parcels Post rates could be made suffi- ciently low tc compete with freight rates.
 The riport of the remarks of Charles $. Hernly of New Castle, Ind, before the Senate Postottice Committee where in he showed that Parcels Post would blight the efforts of commercial clubs to locate factories has caused him to receive multitude of approving letters from offices of such organizations in all parts of the country. The conner cial clubs of Missouri in state conven- ton passed resolutions condemning the proposed Parcels Post as hostile to de- velopment of local industries
 c s. Hernly said to Senator Bourne, Chairman of the Senate Postofice Con- mittee in the hearings: "Your manu- featuring interests are all in Massachu- setts, are they not? You have no facto- ries in Oregon, have you? No wonder you want the Government to haul your goods to the Pacific coast. If I owned knitting mills way down east and want ed to get the goods away out west, 1 would try to get the government to go into the delivery wagon business and handle my manufactured product at flat rate at nominal price. Parcels Post will not help the farmers market their products. The farmers cannot use the mails for shipping their prodL Lets anu I al SClS OSJ VIII IlOJ DullQ up d home market for him. It only enables him 10 buy, but not 10 sell It quadruples the force of the alluring catalog to exite his family to buy this or that article whether needed or not, destroys his country town and trading point, leaves all empty store room and "Deserted Village, and lures his boy and girls 10 the over crowded cities"
 The prospectus of Minneapolis mali order house received here reciIes that, just as soon as the Parcels Post legis- lation is enacted, it (the mail order business) will increase to fifty times it's present enormous voIume'.
 Following charges that advertise ments of mail order houses appear ill post offices, also placards announcing international rates, made not by Con- gress but by the Postal Department and thought to be illegal, and that some rural carrlers solicit for m lil order houses, Julius Rosenwald, president of CN'AAD AsCCOAlChO O NDOs1 uclS O0Ou IlSuIlOu- ed in Washington newspapers as the probable new Secretary of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, provide d Secretary Nagel should be appointed 10 the Supreme bench. Samuel Com pers of the FederdLlon- or Labor has oeen too busy In Judge " rlguts Con- ,enIpL prVceeLlnge LU have puDnc.y eA- pressed all opInIon duuuL Lne appoIul- nent' It IS oeneVeu that MT nosen- "@Id wod.u aerco wI.h one uIuor 0. uue resIuonC CU Keep uuIUu Ism vu. ol al tue departments. .5nUuId the Guvern- nenL opei ate aI4 Lno express UuSIneso t.nd OUner transt tU' tdtIon, anS UrganIZeu effort for Teller From condICIUns ut Tor mer unIon laUuier converted Into Gov- ernmenU employ ees mignt be treateu as treason.
 some representatives, yet want to ln- Crease the hat Tate Tor Carnage UI meI- cnandIse WI, I,nOuL having taken Ine ? trouble Uu learn that Ill the oenaJe hear ings this proposition has been torn tC shre..s. The Senate may report d bll Tor zvne-rate system or all ex peri- mental test or even rural route sy stem f bill, but there is no liklihood that il will report an extension of the present flat rate. Many feel that the carriage of merchandise at rates regardless o distance has already done too much t( discriminate against local industries il : favor of distant ones and ill favor 0 r retail mail order concerns againstloca F dealers.
 Mir. Cha les G. CraddocF, sho manufacturer of Lynchburg, Va, tolC the Senate Post Office committee tha U carriers in his section carried the mai