The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-29

Red Oak phones. Inc ser'0e
,,doubtedly reached high state
If efficiency when 1t was displaced
by the new system.
Has the new service met these
requirements of rural mail service
efficiency? 1t certainly has not IN
this community, nor is this erl'i-
cism of the carrier They are, ! am
sure. doing their very best. Except
on bad days the mail is delivereu
alright. That is it is delivered
some time during the day, but tnis
SORT of service IS naturally irresu-
lar and a patron wishing to send
parcels post package, by money
order or transact other business
with the carrier, may have to wait
five minutes or two hours. service
on a so mile route. is naEuraiis
easily interfered with, through no
fault of the carrier. 1t may be
tire puncture. bad roads, unexpected
lad weather, heavy mails or thou-
sand other causes. No matter what
il is the service is interfered Win
and efficiency destroyed. during
unfavorable weather, and have
good deal, the emergency routes are
put on. They naturally MAINTAIN
a different schedule and some OF them
do not connect UP so that patrons III
between must wait until the weather
clears to receive their mail. Eli
cheney again suffers. These few Cd
jeetions, and there are many others
may appear insignificant to the
postal authorities and TO the gentle
men from Waxahachie, and 10 them
they are insignificant, for they do
rot have to put up with the lne1-
ficient service. But consider the
fellow getting his mail out OF TIN
box by the side of the road, and ne
is really the one to be considered
| for he is the one who is affected
directly. His mail service means
lust as much to him as it does TO
any business man in Waxahaehle
and he dislikes just as much to have
| the efficiency of his service destroy
ed as the Waxahachie brethren
would. Suppose the mail service Of
| the city of Waxahachie should De
SO rearranged and so handled that
the efficiency of the present service
would be destroyed just as the mail
service of the man on the farm has
been. | suspect the Mayor Of Wax
| ahachie who has petitioned that the
| farmers service be experimental
with, would voice his objections with
loud lamentations. Also no doubt
the Board of Trade and Chamber of
Commerce who also wanted the
| government to tinker with the rural
route mail service, would suddenly
see injustice where they now see
| justice and they might even go SO far
as to send another committee TO
| Washington.
OF course | realize we will be adj
vised to give it test and that the
Chamber of Commerce will likely
| tell us they are sorry but that it is
ali for our own good. They are like
the father who was administering
punishment to his son and during
the operation remarked: Il hate to
| dc this son, it hurts me just as much
as it does YOU to which the son
replied; Il know, pa, but it dom
| hurt you in the same place." This
| nail service hurts the fellow on the
farm in a different place to where
1t hurts the fellow in town No
| matter how much they improve it
| We do not want it. We want the
| old service back which is the only
| real, efficient service we have ever
had or ever will have.
Yours very truly,
LESTER WHITE,
President Red Oak Commercial Cllb.