The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-02-20
CHANGERS FAVOR
PARCELS POST
HGar Address by Congressman
Lewis on Subject.

After listening to an address by
Congressman Lewis on the parcels
post delivered at the country life
meeting in the Methodist Episcopal
church Saturday, the Central Pomona
grange passed resolutions favoring
the project.
Congressman David J. Lewis, who
represents Maryland district in
congress prefaced his address with
the statement that the high cost of
living could be relieved by system
of postal express. He outlined a
scheme for getting the necessities of
life from the producer to the con-
sumer at something like the price they
are produced, showing that the vari-
ons means Of transportation now IN
vogue tend to raise the price of COM
modities, the various formalities gone
through with by railroads and express
companies ovefyeach shipment, being,
in his mind, responsible for this
high cost.
Farm products are now carried
-cheaply by wagonloads but not di-
rectly to the consumer went on
Congressman Lewis. "They go 10
the commission merchant and fall in
to the intricate processes of COM
merce only to emerge at last in the
consumers hands at price that
dumfounds the producin g farmer.
Meanwhile the inevitable act of de-
livery to the consumer, in quantities
to suit him, is now being performed
but with a doubling of economic cost
because of not being done at first.
The agencies of transportation are
here, if they were connected to take
the foodstuffs by one act from the
farm to the kitchen, but they are not
coupled up Neither the railway or
the express company can couple them
but the postal system can. linking
the farm with the railway by the
rural delivery and the kitchen with
both through the express-delivery
system.
Il favor taking over the express
companies, articulating the service
with the country through the rural
delivery and with the consumer by
express delivery and giving relief by
getting the vital necessaries to them
direct from the farmer. while giving
express shippers and the public rates.
much lower than parcel post and real
relief from onerous express charges.
Judge Algernon Sweeney offered
resolutions, that were adopted, favor
ing Congressman Lewis stand on the
parcels post question and calling up
on the oranges of the state to take
the matter up with their congress-
man. Judge Sweeney took occasion
to score Congressman John ]. Gard
ner, of this state, for his position re-
garding parcels post legislation.
Senator Obediah Gardner. of Maine,
president of the state conference Of
oranges, spoke next. His topic was
The Grange; It's Opportunity for
the Betterment of Rural Life He
dwelt for time upon the parcels
post as outlined by Congressman
Lewis and asserted that many sena-
tors and congressman had been in
Washington so long they had got out
of touch with the sentiment of their
communities but We're gradually Of
late awakening to the wishes Of the
folks back home"
Senator Gardner told of the work
being accomplished by the oranges
of Maine, how one out of every elev-
en- of the inhabitants of the state
are members of the order and as
serted that the grange stood for the
development of higher manhood and
womanhood.
Prof. Lippman. of state experiment
station at New Brunswick, presided.
The entire morning session was
given over to educational matters,
Dr. Calvin N Kendall, state commits
sioner of education, spoke and was
followed by Prof. J. Howard Hulsart,
Morris county superintendent OF
schools, and Edwin Bebout master of
Passaic township grange.
Dr. Kendall had as his topic "The
Rural School in Country Life" He
dwelt in a general way with the pos
sibilities of the country schools but
made no definite recommendations
other than that better high schools
were needed.
81 do not mean that every town
and village should build high
school building" explained DR.. Ken
dali. "but rather that the studies in
the high schools be revised Then
there is the study of physiology. This
should embrace the matters of pre-
vention of typhoid fever. extermlna-
ton of flies and other sanitation
Matters
Prof. Hulsart and Mr. Bebout dis
cussed DR.. Kendall's address briefly.
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