New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-04-10
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We recently published % article
on the parcels post. It Vas part OF
the debate 1t the High School Literary
Program and WAS written By Miss
Martha Reinhart. In the cou rae OF
her rem arks Miss Reinhart hum orous-
" referred to the absurdity Of sending
farm products to market by means OF
parcels post. It seems, % she said,
ridiculous to think Of such . thing.
However, ill things new aud untr led
look ridiculous or prepo sterous.
A writer in the 'Farm and Fire
side'' says that the use Of the parcels
post in Germany for marketing 10 very
common. We quote as follows:
.'For over . hundred years Germany
has had parcels post, and since 1873
her present very effective andsuccesstul
system. When l first came to Ger
many, l 1t once noticed the immense
number Of packages that were being
loaded and unloaded at the rstlrOsd
stations, and that special cars carry
ing nothing but these packages, and
sometimes three and four such cars
we're seen on every train.
In the cities 1 frequently saw long
lines of postofice wagons, and could
not understand Why it took so many
wagons to haul the mail. Upon In
quiry, was told in very disinterest.
ed way that they we're the ''paket post
wagons. Then it dswned upon me
that this was parcels post, the thing
that We have been beseeching congress-
to establish and the thing that the
Grange and other farm organizations
in the United States have been endors-
ing in their resolutions TOR
years. I had come here to study
European agriculture and here vas my
opportunity to go what parcels post
actually means to tho farmers, ana !
began to investigate.
At my boarding house In central
Germany I asked my lsndlsdy where
she got her butter, which Vas Of excel
lent quality. She told mo It came
from Holstetn in the northwestern
part of Germany, 200 miles away.
asked if it vas not expensive to have
it come 30 far. ooh, no. she said
1--WE have it come by post and have
gotten it every week for several years
from the same man. You know We
can send q package by post up to
FIVE Kilograms eleven pounds) to any
place in Germany for fifty Pfennig
twelve cents)." I then understood
why 1 had seen such quantities OF
packages in the railroad station and
SO many parcels-post wagons on the
streets in the cities. Inquired about
how commonly it was used for the
marketing of farm products. Here in
Halle, which is city OF about 100000
population in the central part OF Ger
many, I find that it is a very general
practice for families to get the supply
of butter, eggs and poultry sent to
them every week through the parcels
post, and they are delivered to their
door lust as q letter would be-
One OF the brilliant young Juniors
Of the Owatonna High School burst
forth into verse the other day and
eulogized q member of the faculty.
The verse follows:
"After the studying is over
After our labor is done
We slowly creep into the English class
Mournfully, one by one.
After the roll has been taken
After the speech has been made
We start to recite and into the hand
OF Sarah our fate is laid.
Cold and stern she mows down our
ranks
Zeros begin to increase
And pupils begin to tremble and
| For fear her good nature will cease.
Then at the end to cap it all
While our heart for some rest yesrns
She proclaims. "To-morrow 10 ceie'
Ont,ine that Essay on Burns!'
A little lame in the feet but
true to life picture of some Hlgf