The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1915-01-29
FRIEND OF
NAIL CARRIERS
Rep. Griest Criticises Some
OF Postal Departments
Policies.

Nti N'7SiilaliNS vi lSSt, vi IelluSNl-
vanla, approves the ed itori a
which appears in the issue of jan
uary 9under the caption Village
Delivery Service, v but adds in ad-
dition that there is substantial de-
lnand for it. Only in rare instanc-
es, he says, however, should
rural carriers be employed in this
work. -
His letter follows. Incidentally
MIR. Criest takes fall out of some
of the Departments policies:
There is much merit in the edi-
torial published in the News of
January 9, 1915 under the caption
Village Delivery Service. I'm
fortunately, however, you do not
seem to be familiar with the public
sentiment existent i'll hundreds of
towns having two to six or seven
thousand inhabitantr, which are
not entitled to city delivery service.
These towns having one to several
thousand or more inhabitants are
justly entitled to adequate facilities
for the collection and delivery of
mail. AS an evidence of the value
OF such service | refer YOU to the
Congressional Record of January
to %, 1914, containing QUOTA
tlons from a few Of the numerous
letters written by members of Com
gress and their constituents, testify
ing as to the value and efficiency of
the village or town delivery service
in the hundred or more places at
which the service had been experi-
mentally inaugurated prior to
January |, 1914.
/ concur in the editorial opinion
that III rare instances only should
the rural delivery carriers be EN-
gagged to make the delivery of mail
III the larger towns; and if thev
are SO used by the Department it
would doubtless work to the det1i-
ment of either the rural delivery
service or the village delivery ser
vice, as the collection and delivery
OF the mail either in the town or
out in the country would be delav-
ed, and one or the other would
not receive that CELEBRITY and ex
pedition guaranteed by the motto
which the Postfflce Department has
proudly employed since the first
establishment of the American
postal service.
The time has long since passed
when officials of the Government
should cease trifling with the eff
tlclent development of the mail de-
livery facilities of the Postoffice De
partment. The rural delivery ser
vice, like the city delivery service,
had within recent years been de
veloped to high standard of eff
tlclency, and the friends of the
town or village delivery service ad-
vocated the new system in Congress
because there is public demand for
the same which people here in
Washington seem to ignore, as it
comes from the smaller communities
which they do not believe to be
organized and capable of demand
ing of the Government that to
which they are entitled. The dis.
elimination should be removed
which has existed by reason of the
failure to develop an intermediate
system between the rural delivery
and the city delivery service.
Il have long been friend of the
rural delivery service, and am as
heartily in favor of the village and
city delivery services. The stability
of the republic largely depends up.
on the prosperity and contentment
of the people of the country and in
the small towns, and the Govern
ment can we'll afford to take the
excess profits out of the big cities
and expend a part of the same in