The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-11-25
HARRISON SUGGESTS TWO DE.
LIVERY WINDOWS IN SOUTH.
ERh PosroFFlces.
BURLESON IMPRESSED With PLAN
It Is Believed Postmaster General viii
Do Anything to Improve Conditions
II it Does Not Conflict With Existing
Laws-Sisson Has Not Returned.
(By F. d. Lander, Jr.)

Washington, Nov. Ex-senator Var
daman no longer has a monopoly
Mississippians Of agitating the
negro question. Representative Pat
Harrison, who returned to Washington
a few days ago, made his first official
action a visit to Postmaster General
Burleson and suggested to the head
of the Postoffice Department that two
delivery windows be provided in each
Southern postoffice-one for white peo-
pie and the other for negroes.
The Postmaster General did not |
commit himself to the proposition, but
seemed impressed with it and Repre- !
sentative Harrison believes there is a
good opportunity that white women in
the South will be relieved of the en-
barrassment of having to crowd up
to delivery windows with negroes. The
Postmaster General is a Texan and is
no ardent lover of the dark brother.
One evidence of his belief that the
races should be segregated is his
recent Encouragement in the depart
ment at Washington so that many
white women who formerly were desk
mates with negro men no longer are
made to work in that position, but
have been transferred to some other
division, or else the negroes have been
transferred. For this reason 1t is be-
lieved the Postmaster General will be
disposed to do anything toward race
segregation that is not in conflict with
existing laws and that does not incur
too much expense on the department.
A special commission is now investi-
eating the practicability of rearrang-
ing all the postoffices in the country
with view to making them all as near
ly similar in arrangement and system
as is possible.
If this commission will approve the
idea of having two delivery windows
it can be done without act of Congress.
1t is certain the matter has much
better chance of becoming effected
, through the postoffice department
now presided over by a Southerner OF
the old school, than it has by act OF
, Congress.
? Representative Harrison also talk
ed with the Postmaster General about
placing back in their former positions
, in the building list great many build
} ings on which appropriations had beer
increased and which had lost thei
} positions by reason of the increase
, Laurel Miss, is one of these cities
B Laurel was granted an appropriation
B of 100000. This appropriation sui
B sequently was increased to 1000, bu
3 when the increase was made, Laure
D was dropped so far down in the built
. ing schedule as to delay constructio
. for more than year. Scores of othe
: cities suffered like fate.
The Postmaster General authorize
Representative Harrison to state ths
he is unqualifiedly in favor of placin
these cities in the same position on II
building list that they held before tt
y appropriations were increased. tt
change of position was caused by
mere technicality and the Postmast
General shares with Mr.. Harrison al
" others the opinion that these cities !
longer should be deprived of the bui
'n ings which Congress has voted then
At Representative Ben Humphreys h
iu' Joined his colleagues here. Four M
er' sissippi congressman are now in Wa
mt ington-Quin, Harrison, Stephens a
u.s. Humphreys. Representative Siss'
ost who scorde his colleagues for bel
absent about two weeks ago, has !
eg- returned to the seat he left four d'
he after criticising those congressm
vas who were absent at that time