The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-02-09


ASK Me- MAN OF CAPITAL
ALL KINDS or QUESTIONS FIRE.
AT THE BACHELOR MEMBER
OF THE cARINET OF PREsl.
DENT TAFT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The cares
of cabinet differing weigh heavily
on PostmaSter-G General Hitchcock.
the bachelor member of the presi
DENTS official family. Mr. Hitchcock
is rapidly qualifying as the task
me- man Of the government service,
for his advice is sought ON almost
every. conceivable subject, from mat
rhmony to aviation II the flood of
promiscuous inquiries keep up there
will have to be a bureau OF infor-
nation" in the postoffice department.
Such a bureau is need to inform
the Querying public that Mr.. Hitch
cock will not recognize heap year
proposals.; that he cannot find hus-
bands for anxious spinsters; that he
has not yet approved Of suggestion
to carry chickens through the mails,
and that he has enough work i'm his
present job without acting AIS ad.
wiser m-chief to practically everybody
who takes his pen in hand to write
the government.
On the other hand the postmaster
general causes others some trouble
He recently proved to be the cause
of considerable worry TO Senator Gil
bert NJ. Hitchcock.
Tired and fatigued after a hard
days work in the capitol, the sena
tor went home one day to find in his
attention a bin for $50 pink para
Sols." The scion was greatly sur
prised and pleaded his innocence O
the purchase to Mrs. Hitchcock, who
according to the story, tod of tht
incident, had become curious concern
ing the purchase of the many para
soils by her husband. The senate
did some quick sleuthilg deducet
certain facts which would make De
tectfve Burns blush with envy amt
then announced that he had SOLVED
the mystery.
His deductions proved to be true
The bachelor Hitchcock had given /;
dance and the parasols were use'
as souvenirs The bookkeeper in /;
department store had made the 81
TOR in mailing out the bill. Post
master General Hitchcock afterwards
it is said, apolog10ed to the senate
and paid the bill.
This is one of the numerou
troubles that the poStoffbce chief ha
either consciously or unconsciousl
given many residents of Washingto
to say nothing of the number of bin
that he delivers to unwilling hand
through the mails. The effIcienc
of the poStoffice department as a co
lector, book agent, doctor or solIc
tor, is unquestioned by the bushes
houses of the United States.
One girl from a small town in Win
ginia applied to the poStmastergeT
Grad for instructions as to how
become "a successful female unde
takeress.'
Another, with matrimonial intel
tionS, once asked for "a good phott
graph of the postmaster general.
She frankly admitted in her lette
that she would not decide wthethe
she would marry him until she ha
seen his picture.
An Omaha woman who wanted
tall, nice, blue-eyed husband" wrct
the poStmaster-g general with the Il
quest that he consider her cand
date when he finally desired "a goo
wife The communication, hoy
ever, plainly stated that he mus
be above six feet tain and good nj
tured." The postmaster general qua
flies.
AS yet the postmaster-general an
: his lieutenants have not commute
= themselves ON the most recent pro
lem which has been placed befoC
them for solution. The propositic
: comes from representatives of I'll
American Poultry association an
: was made before the senate comm
tee on postoffices. The associate
has advocated the admission of chic
! ems to the United States mails.
The question which is now und'
consideration by the department,
4 one of the numerous Identification
Postal authorities say it is one upC
which a hasty opinion should not
made.