The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-04-16
mo EIGHT HOUR
DAY IN war work.
Declared Lexington Postmaster In
Telling Rural Mail, Carriers They
Must "Go to II" In War
Savings Campaign.
KY. P0STMASTERS AROUSE
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

Central Accounting Postmasters
throughout Kentucky have been hold.
ing meetings of District Postmasters
and Rural Carriers the past week for
the purpose Of arousing them to the
demands upon them by the Federal
Government, through the Post Office
Department at Washington, that every
one get actively in the great campaign
row going on all over the country to
teach the lesson Of Thrift and pro.
mote the sale Of Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Stamps among the people
they serve IN their several commune
ties. In not . single instance has a
Postmaster ignored tho call Of State
Director James B. Brown for such
meetings, and every meeting has been
largely attended and will be product.
i've Of good results.
Postmaster Moses Kaufman, Of Lex
ington, who has actively co-operated
with County Chairman John Skain in
his every plan Of campaign, told his
associates and employees Of the Post
Once Department in Fayette county
that there is no eight-hour day in war
work, and that they must go to it at
an hours. leaving the road side mail
box in the rural districts to call at the
doorstep Of the persons on his route
and see that they either bought War
Gin ~ ne Nr uova a UoNd opI snN ,iapt
reason why they could not do so.
DO you really think that the Amer
icaa soldiers who are at this minute
holding the line in France are holding
out for an eight-hour day? Alright
then. go to 1t, and give overtime to
your menaced country and sell these
stamps.
This Is how Postmaster Kaufman
went at the rural mail carriers at a
meeting Of the carriers, which was
called to put usw singerY1nto the sales
Of War Savings Stamps. The rural
mail carriers. Mr.. Kaufman explained
had fallen behind the city carriers in
results.
Nov you men in the country should
zee every man, woman and child on
your route. Put the mail in the box
on the road, and then take the time to
drive up to the mans house, and in.
stat on hearing. Don't let personal
rebuffs bother you. Just remind your.
self that It is your country and not
you that is receiving the rebuff.
Say to the men who refuse to buy:
What right have you to stay at
home in ease and comfort, while other
Americans are dying in France? Why
has the government q right to call on
one man to die, II II has not an equal
right to ask you to lend your money!"
Tell him that he is the sort OF man
that will make 1t possible for that he.
roic line In France to break before the
Hun assault. Put 1t up - him that II
will be his fault II he ear h lost"
John Skain, the county chairman OF
the War Savings Stamp campaign,
spoke and suggested yet another argu.
ment.
Tell the man who will not buy that
tbs government will get his money an.
other way II he will not lend 1t to a
government which is willing to pay
generous interest. There are, know,
men Of wealth on your routes, who
have SO far refused to buy. Tell those
men that the assessment boards of the
county know their wealth, and that
they are driving their government to
resort to taxation. They are not 60
ing TO get away without putting up
some money for this war"