The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-03-02
Who HANDLES THE
BUSINESS OF U. S.
No Business Firm Could Feel Se-
cure ifCondltions Such as These
Should Become Prevalent

Denver, Colorado, st. Louis, Mis-. t
souri,, and Omaha, Nebraska, are
added to the list Of cities wherein
post office employees, or someone
with access to the governments au-
thOrized printed matter, are serving
the pope by interfering with this
paper and its subscribers.
Recently someone from Denver
sent in one of the governments
regulation cards stating that sub
scriber on South street had re-
moved. The sender took pains to
record the subscribers name and
the South street address, when
sending in the notice, and could not
possibly have made a mistake or
claimed that the paper was poorly
addressed, else he would have been
unable to record the correct one.
We communicated with our sub
scriber upon receipt Of the card, ad-
dressing him as we had been adj
dressing the paper.
1t seems that the carrier on this
route was able to deliver our let
ter at the proper address, for with
out delay we received letter from
the subscriber stating that he was
still residing at the old address,
had not moved, and did not intend
to. We replaced his name on our
mailing list, and SO far as we are
able to learn the carrier has been
able to deliver the paper since that
date. =
Another official notice coming
from Omaha, Nebraska, recorded
the false information that sub
scriber on Twenty-Third street was
"not found" Of course, we re-
moved the name from the list,
but wrote the subscriber, sending a
copy of the card to the same address
as that to which we had been send
ing the paper, and which the work
, er in the post Office department. had
taken such pains to record on the
official notice. The answer to that
: letter revealed that here was loyal
worker on the firing line who prob
ably would have been separated
from this paper indefinitely or un-
til he became exasperated and wrote
us about it, or became disgusted
and quit us, had we not taken the
precaution to look into the matter;
T another case where a letter could be-
r delivered, but hatred of THE MEN
ACE caused someone to send us the
S false information mot found"
$ When confronted by the wronged
D subscriber the only excuse the post
: office employees offered was that
r the paper must have gotten on some-
: one else's route. We quite agree
e with the postal employee that the
e wrong person must have had THE
Y MENACE on this occasion, else the
s misinformation would not have
t been sent in, and we think it an in
D justice to the people Of Omaha and
D to the publications that must de-
: pend on the postal service of that
S city to maintain this wrong person
:, in government position, when evi-
n dence clearly shows that he is more
e anxious to labor for the pope.
J From St. Louis we received an
{ other of these regulation cards in
e forming us that there was no such
X number on Scott avenue as that to
! which we were addressing THE
II MENACE, which number the EN-
y ployee plainly recorded on the
IS card. Believing that this was an
. other attempt to separate this pa
+ per from q subscriber we took the
y trouble to address q letter to the
y same number to which the paper had
Is been going. Our subscriber replied
y stating that there is such a mum,
+ Der on Scott avenue, for she hap.
5 pened to reside at such number and
knew it was there, and had been re-
- ceiving all her mail there until she
q a began to miss. THE MENACE. II
t the same employee who sent the
N card to this Office, stating ther,
"a N was no such number, had the pleas
d ure Of delivering our letter to thai
le place, he also had the pleasure o.
proving to himself that emissarie'
:, Of the pope will wilfully lie and re
# # fuse to do the work for which the,
Q, are paid if they fee, by so doinl
0; they are in any way helping thu
al church whose hierarchy is to them
' an organization demanding ale
he glance in advance and taking prece
g, dence over all other considerations
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