El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-22

1 UEeq In Less Time ana FOR
Much Less Money.
-- By Frederic }. Haskin--
CONTINUED from previous page)
vet so slowly as to fail to improve the
service and extend 1t just as rapidly
as conditions allow"
The Next Step
THE next step We will take" he
continued, will be that OF reforming
the zone rates beyond the second zone
just as we have for the first and sec
ond zones, increasing the weight limit
to 20 pounds when We do, so that the
limit may be uniform for all zones and
the rates made to correspond Then
when that improY eInenL mas taken firm
hold and proved itself in practice, We
will take the next step, again N
creasing the limit and decreasing the
rate, if conditions warrant And We
viii thus move on step BY step. until
the end TO which We are aiming
hundred pound limits reached. We
are going TO be sure we are right at
every step, before we take II, but this
desire for conservatism IS not going TO
prevent our attaining the ultimate
limit just as soon as conditions war
rant"
with this, then. as the ultimate OBJ
ject Of the present postal administra-
ton, the urban consumer can feel that
the day is not far distant when he can
write his declaration OF Independence
from the exactions Of the series OF
middlemen who stand between him and
the rural producer. Then he can have
his big hamper with its several COM
partments Of all the commodities OF
his market basket-here one for a
ham, here another Tor some fresh meat.
here one for several dozen eggs, and
others for a peck OF string beans. a
dozen ears OF corn. some peas, jellies
and preserves, and everything else nee
eSsary for weeks rations.
Some OF the ResultE
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parcels post will be that there viii
have TO be a Encouragement OF the af-
fairs Of the middIemen IL they desire
TO escape the pinch that such a service
VIII undoubtedly bring down upon
them With the better prices for farm
produce that viii be commanded By
the farmer as a result, and with tbs
opening up OF the market for COM
modities that can be profitabiy grown
on farms remote from present markets,
the farmer win be able to make bet
ter living and many present day mid
diemen will become producers rather
than parasites on the body economic.
Others viii be content with the small
er profits that the keen competition OF
the parcels post market hamper will
bring into existence. Some will be-
come country produce gatherers, col
lecting the produce OF farmers who do
not care to do q retail business and
shipping direct to the consumer in
other words, they viii move their
SNULCS 10 L4c country HuSLS lnS pE1-
duce is grown, where low rents and
low expenses are encountered, and
there do a grocery business with their
old customers by mail
The hundred pound parcels post viii
cause other changes. Mail cars will
have to be added and their equipment
changed on every line Rural free de-
livery routes now, served BY carriers
on motorcycles OF horsedraWn carts
may come to require two horse wagons
and even some OF them big motor
trucks Of four or five tons capacity.
With this facility at their disposal
churches and other philanthropie in
stitutions may help the poor and thu
needy by establishing depOts - each
community where they can order e
pounds OF stuff say, and get the ad-
vantage OF better prices and better
postal rates by having their orders
consolidated with larger ones.