The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-20
PAGE TEN
CONDEMNS THE CHANGES IN THE
II. T. ID. SYSTEM

rectly or indirectly to the rural
routes and how he expects to make
1t up by adding few more muddy
miles to each route and making No
3 part of No. and No. 5 a part of
NO. and vice versa, and changing
the morning delivery to the evening
delivery when 80 per cent of the
mail before the change was delivered
in the morning This change in the
routes does not meet the approval of
the people and the carriess, in Doug
las County The change has demon
allied q well tahhshad and salts
Factory system Of K r D. routes Of
long standing in our county
Before the change was made and
any more mileage added to the routes
the poor dumb brutes had full days
work to do, drawing the mail carts
over the hilly roads Of this section,
through the mud, rain, sleet and
snow, but under the new order they
must be rushed on at even greater
speed in order that the deficit may
be made w At the expense nf the
poor little rural carriers who go
bumpitybump over the rugged roads
hugging their little oil stoves be-
aween their feet to keep from freez-
ing, while the men higher up are
enjoying all the comforts Of modern
convenience and smoking their
cigars in palatial Offices.
If there must be a curtailment of
expenses, commence higher up and
cut all the way down the line Don't
put the burden on the rural carriers
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the service.
The rural routes are a part and
parcel Of every community through
which they go. and to make them
untenable by extending them beyond
the point Of endurance means death
to every route and death to the party
that instigate2 it. [ have walked
time after time four miles to the
little country post office to get The
Weekly Constitution. and if it was
busy crop time we did we'll to go
after it once a month; and don't you
know we were we'll posted on current
events.
The Hon. Thomas E. Watson must
have had some experience along this
aine. or at least he had mixed and
mingled with country folks long
enough to know their daily needs
when he introduced that much talked
about and much written about reso-
lution in the United States Congress
asking for an appropriation Of
$4,000 to put the Rural Free De-
livery through its experimental
Bta ge.
The rural delivery Of mail has
passed through the experimental
stage, and outside of systematizing
some of the routes, woe be unto the
man or political party who draws
his dagger to stab it to death. The
country people await the coming Of
Abe mail carriers with as much eager
mess as the city and town people
await the coming Of the railroad
mail trains. and any change of sched-
nle or delay in delivery causes as
much dissatisfaction to one as it
does to the other.
The country lad who sauntered
over to his sweetheart's house one
Sunday afternoon to enjoy the levi
ties Of the evening, during a lull in
conversation, perchance picked up a
newspaper, and on being asked what
is the news" replied, Il see the ship
has turned over and split all the
people," but not so now; they have
the ship right side up and the boys
and girls in the country are as well
up on the daily events as their
friends in the city.
Daily and weekly papers, maya
zines and periodicals can be found
IN almost oVnrv cOIlDtr,v homo and