The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-03
mo EIGHT HOUR
DAY IN WAR Work"
Declared Lexington Postmaster In
Telling Rural Mail Carriers They
Must go to u" In War
Savings Campaign.
Ky. P0STMASTERS AROUSE
p 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
me get actively in the great campaign
now 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 a single instance, has a
Postmaster ignored the call of State
Director James b. Brown for such
Gneetings, 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
mis- every plan of campaign, told his
associates and employees of the Post
Office Department in Fayette county
that there is no eight-hour day in wal
work, and that they must go to II at
all 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
Stamps or gave n good and sufficient
reason why they could not do so.
DO you really think that the Amer.
lean soldiers who are at this minute
holding the line in France are holding
out for an eight-hour day? Alright
then, go to it, 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 new ginger into the sales
of War Savings Stamps. The rural
mail carriers. Mr.. kaufman explained,
had fallen behind the city carriers in
results.
Now you men in the country should
see every man. woman and child on
your route. Put the mai. in the box
on the road. and then take the time to
drive up to the mans house, and in.
sist 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 10 the men who refuse TO buy:
4 What right have you to stay at
home in ease and comfort, while other
Americans are dying in France? Why
has the government a right to call on
one man to die, If II has not an equal
right to ask you to lend your money!
Tell him that he is the sort Of man
Nhat will make 1t possible for that he
role line in France to break before the
Hun assault. Put it up to him that II
will be his fault if the war is 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
the government will get his money an.
other way IL he will not lend it 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 go.
ing TO get away without putting up
some money for this war"