Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-13
Postmasters Hear Growth
of Postal Savings System

Harrisburg will in all proba bility be
selected as the permanent meeting
place for the annual conventions of
the PENNSYLVANIA Postmasters Asso-
cition This question came up late
this afternoon as an amendment to the
bylaws. Indications were that it
would pass unanimously. Speaking of
Harrisburg, President W. D. McGinnis,
of ConuellsYilie. said:
Harrisburg is the only logical place
for convention of postmasters. 1t is
centrally located and has excellent
facilities. We always have a larger
attendance at conventions held in Har-
rlsourg than in any other place.
Everybody likes to come to this city.
We are treated fine and our meetings
are always q success"
Prominent speakers on this after
Moons program. which started at 8
O'Clock, included A. Mitchell Palmer
OF Stroudsburg. Democratic national
committeeman: Third Assistant Post
master General a. NJ. Dockery and
Postmaster James kingsbury, of Potts
Vile. The report of the committee on
resolutions and election of officers con-
cluded the business.
The annual banquet will be held to-
night at the Harrisburg Club. Post
master Frank C.. Sites, of Harrisburg
who is chairman of the committee on
entertainment, will be POSTMASTER
Two of the speakers will be Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General James l.
Blakslee and A. Mitchell Palmer.
At this mornings session Postmaster
7. E. Tierney. of McKees Rocks. talked
on Postal Savings" He advocated wide
publicity on the advantages offered
those who wanted to save money and
SAID that foreigners were largely in the
majority as depositors in the postal saw
ings fund. His office is the fourth best
postal savings branch in Pennsylvania.
fourth best second class Office in the
United States and fifty-second on the
list of all postoffices in the United
States.
Postmaster Thomas E. Hodges, of
Morgantown, w. Va. made an in
teresting address on THE Second
Mile. He urged all postmasters to
make greater efforts to go the second
mile and said in part:
The first mile is your regular duties.
You follow rules by compulsion. This
is not all needed for efficiency. There
is greater service to do. Go the second
mile by trying to give still better serv-
ice than what the rules and regu-
ldtions call for. There may be rough
travelling sometimes. because some
people are hard to please. but in the
end you will find everything running
more smoothly"
An interesting speaker last night
was j. T. Cortelyou, post office in
spector. in charge at Philadelphia.
Cooperation was the keynote of his
talk. He told of many Investigations
made which resulted in showing that a
large percentage of complaints are
without foundation. He praised Post
master John A. Thornton as an eff
ficient official. Inspector Cortelyou re-
lated a number of interesting stories
showing how frequently complaints
were made without reason. He urged
still greater efforts toward cooperation
in all branches and advocated more
get-together meetings. He favored or
ganization and hoped that every post
master in the State would see the
value of meeting at least once each
year and hear what the other fellow
had to say.
Lewis b. Flohr, of the Agriculture
Department at Washington, D. c.. gave
an interesting talk on Marketing by
Parcel Post" He showed an increase
in business along this line and was of
the opinion that the people were awak-
ening to the fact that marketing by
parcel post brought a reduction in the
high cost of living.
AT the late afternoon session, fol-
lowing the boat ride on the river, the
speakers were z. ]. Stackpole, former
postmaster of Harrisburg and ex-presi-
dent of the postmasters' associations
Thomas Woods, of Muncy, who spoke
on Our Rural Mail Delivery; c. S.
Yothers. of Mount Pleasant. whose
subject was Retirement of Superan-
nuated Employees" and Harry w. Fee.
or Indiana, on "Postmasters' Alps"