The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-11
No SUNDAY NAIL
SEW POSTAL LAM ORDERS OF
EICE CLOSED SUNDAYS.
n This Law Affects Orangeburg
There VIII Be No Sunday Delivery
Hereafter.

There VIII Be No Sunday Delivery
Hereafter.
The following letter has been sent
out to ali first and secoud-class posi-
Offices:
Washington, aug. -, 1912.
Postmaster.
sir:-The postohce appropriation
act for the fiscal years eaci"5 u-1o
80, 1919, provides: - 49,
THAT hereafter qostotlices OF the
first and second classes sAan not oe
omen on Sundays for the purpose OF
.3e,irarins mail to the general pubic,
Sur this provision shall not prevent
tho prompt delivery mail.
Tnder this law, YOU will cose the
General delivery carriers windows
'2nd lock boxes and discontinue all
deliveries by carriers on Sunday. You
will note. however, that special de-
livery mail is expected and you vii!
therefore arrange to have on duty a
sufficient force to handle this mail
matter promptly.
The department desires to reduce
Sunday work to the minimum so that
as many OF the employees as possible
may enjoy a complete day Of rest on
Sunday. You should, therefore, re-
auire only a sufficient number CT
clerks TO report for duty on that day
in order that tansmit mail and the
mail collected for dispatch may be
handled without delay. Ii no mail is
dispatched On Sunday q very early
collection should be made on Monday
morning and the mail for local del!V-
cry distributed before the carriers
leave 5o1 their first trip,
Respectfully,
C. P. Gra1dfeld,
First Assistant Postmaster General.
The rev law was passed by con-
gress and signed by the president be-
fore any iltimation was heralded OF
it's creation. It was probably work
ed upon the quiet to keep down tie
howl that would have been raised, es-
pecially b. the larger cities. Aside
from being blow to the masses who
like to read and answer their letters
on Sunday, the greatest sufferers will
be those who are accustomed to read
the mammoth editions of the Sunday
papers. 1t Will be blow to the pub
fishers who derive much business
from the Sunday editions.
In every other first and second class
posrofice city in the United States,
might as we'll be sarcophagus on
Sunday hereafter. unless the mail you
are expecting happens to bear 10
cent special delivery stamp.
And if you received single article
yesterday. letter, newspaper, or mer-
chandise that did not bear that stamp
it was only because the local author
tiles had not received notification OF
a law passed by Congress Saturday
n!ght-a law which is probably the
most drastic and stringent Sunday
enactment that ever received the sig
nature OF the president OF the United
States.
Il provides that from midnight OF
Saturday until midnight of Sunday nc
article OF mail received at q first OF
lsecond class postofice shsiI be work,
ed" even to the extent Of placing II
in box, except it be of the specia'
delivery variety. In that case it vii!
! be delivered as usual. The law is ef-
tective at once
The new statute does not effect the
dispatching Of letters posted, which
| will be sent on the various trains as
usual.
Some curiosity was expressed here
as to how such a law could have
passed through both Houses Of Con
cress and been signed by the presi-
dent without publicity attaching tc
the procedure. II was regarded as
| hardly conceivable that this could
have been accomplished without &
great protest. especially from the
large cities, il the intention had been
! known.
There are business men in this city
| who have never dreamed Of letting
Sunday pass without procuring, open
ing and answering their mall. The
task Of rea djustment will be for these
an extremely difficult one.
Most inconvenience to the public
at large will result in connection with
the distribution of SUNDAY newspa
pers from out-of-town points. Lo'
| cal newspapers are delivered BY car.
! rier, but in the towns which do not
have Sunday newspapers one Of the
leading events Of a day IS the arriVa:
OF the big town daily. The situation
! low created Is one thu, VIII doubt
| less receive different solutions. IN
not many cases will the people fore
go the pleasure OF enliyening theiI
only day off If there is any possible
means by which the paper can be Sc
cured.
Inconvenience Will also be caused
those connected with the publication
of Monday morning papers since
newsletters arriving OF Sunday will
be non-delivery unless bearing spe-
c;al delivery stamps.
About a year ago az agitation was
launched in some quarters for par
tial Sunday closing. and this went
int effect here. The scope of this
was the aSoli1ion OF delivery at ca
riers' windows and the restriction OF
the general delivery window to 80
minutes time.
The only object that will he sub
served by the new law, so far as is
appt Ahended, is a modest saving to
the public treasury. The statute pro-
vides that where an employee is re-
guired to work On Sunday he must be
given a holiday at some other time
Of the week within six days. An en-
piovee cannot be worked over eight
hours day and al this period must
be included within 10 hours.
SHOOTS HIS BROTHER-N-LiW.