Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-11
CONGRESSMAN GOOD SCORES
PRESENT SYSTEM OF FED.
ERAL GOVERNMENT.
PLEDGES SUPPORT TO
RETIREMENT ON PENSIONS
Would Take Entire Postal System Out
of PoIities-BurIeson Accused Of Us
ing Service For Incompetent Demo-
cratic Puppets-clerks to Meet Next
in Waterloo.

on pensions for civil service employees
| who have grown old in the employ Of
the government being the aim OF the
seventeenth annual convention of the
National Association of Letter Car
riers and United National Association
city during yesterday and today. 1t os
evident that the organizations will at
tain their end if local support and in
dorsement counts for anything. And
. that Endorsement was secured at the
banquet of the convention in the Y. NJ.
c. a. cafe last evening. when Hon.
James w. Good, concluding the after
dinner program, gave a severe rak1ng
over the Goals to the association OF
politics with the postoffice department,
pleading with the organizations to use
their concerted strength for the plac-
ing of the department upon "the broad
plane of national business" and prom
Using his every effort toward the ef-
fecting of a pension plan.
II have been an interested Observer
said Mr.. Good, during the course Of
his berating of the system, ''of the
| N~~N
Burleson-the one to fill the Offices Of
public trust with nnknowing repub-
Icans; the other to turn them out and
play his political strings with incom-
petent democratic puppets dangling
therefrom.
Politics Depiored.
TT Is too bad that the postal SER
vice must be controlled by politics. My
solution of the evil would be postal
commission-the postmaster general to
head such a body and to work in con-
junction with two other members, ap-
pointed by the president from opposed
political parties for a term of perhaps
FIVE years, in appointing the postmas-
ters thruout the country, fixing their
salaries, etc. Lets take the poStoHlce
out of politics"
Mr.. Goods touching upon the pen
sion plan followed the line Of the re-
marks of Charles D. Duffy, of Chicago,
national treasurer Of the letter car
riers, previous speaker. Mr.. Duffy
has called attention to the past bene-
| fetal legislation originated by the as
sociations, such as the eight-hour day,
the graduated payment scale. etc, and
pointed out the opportunity for the
! convention to come to the relief OF
those who were bound to wear away
| the best years Of their lives under the
TaSlor system, then to be turned out
as useless by the government.
Action Today.
The drawing up of a pension plaI
was the order of today, when the as
ISOLATION In sperate sessions Will &C
into executive sessions for that pur-
pose. Following the endorsement OF
the drawn bill the matter will be pre-
scented for ratification at the nauona
conventions Of the associations later IL
the year, then given into the hands O.
National President q. n. A. P. O. c
Frank T. Rogers for presentation a
| Washington.
The events Of last night followed 6
five course banquet served in the Y
NJ. C. A. cafe at o'clock and attend
ded by the 100 delegates and thei1
wtfes. Postmaster Charles D. HustoI
presided as POSTMASTER, he being in
troduced by Charles j. Lensch, ex
state president of the letter carriers
AS National President Rogers. LISTED
for an address was unable to be pres
ent, Messrs. Duffy and Good were tn
speakers of the evening, entertainment
|
tillon, dean of the local carriers, tn
male quartet, composed of E. s. Stolba
II. W. Mcleod, James CoWden and Dr.
F. E. Miller and Matt Cowden. MI
Huston called upon Postmaster John
son, Of Marshalltown, for extemporan
eous remarks. and in the course o
his talk, Mr. Johnson invited the asso
Citations to hold their 1917 convention
in Marshalltown in SO gracious wa,
as to make acceptance probable.
Waterloo in 1916.
. The 1916 meeting goes to Waterloo
, the award being the feature OF tn
, morning meeting. The convention wa
, first called to order in the Fedora
; building court room at 8 o'clock, {
: ]. Lensch presiding. Following an ad
, dress Of welcome by Postmaster Hus
i ton and responses upon behalf Of tn
: clerks and carriers by State Presiden
, c. e. Boblett and w. H Fries, re
8 spectively, the call for invitations wa
issued and Waterloo accorded the con
, vention, the Clinton invitation bein
> withdrawn to make for unanimit.
4 The associations then convened in sep
2 arate sessions to hear reports of Off
. GERS and to conduct the preliminar
q business of the convention. Recon
O vention at o'clock S2""T q enmnletio