Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-05
Ply f. J. Ryan

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| lishment," and is an expression of APP
probation "of the splendid way they
have performed their duties during
the past year"
| The postmaster-ge general said that
the employees have been loyal and eff
| cient. That's right. He also said that
| the reports of officials, inspectors. di
vision superintendents of the railway
mail service and postmasters show
that the postal service has been and
is being maintained at Il standard of
! efficiency the highest known in its
| history" We do not doubt but that
| the reports conveyed such story to
| the postmaster general We do doubt
| the statement as to the present eff
| cheney of the service. In fact we know
| it is not true. And we speak from
| experience.
The American public knows from
actual experience that the postal SER
vice was never so inefficient in it's
| history as it has been during the past
| few years, and as it is at the present
moment. The writer speaks from ac-
tual experience, having served as a
railway postal clerk for number of
years 1t is my intention TO refer to
specific instances or records.
Let us go back to the years when
real efficiency existed in the postal
service when the employees were sat
isfied and contented and assured of
| decent and respectable treatment at
the hands of their superior officials.
This takes US back to any period pre-
ceding the fall of 1910. | will recall
my first impressions of mail service.
Everything that the new employee
came in contact with seemed to
40 hp n I'm rc,,h nf pXr
and speed. "Get the mail home to its
| address at the earliest possible mo-
ment," seemed to be the inspiration
| that controlled the mental and physi-
cal activities of ALL Certainty, celer-
| ity and security" was a fact in prac-
| tice, not merely euphonious combi-
| nation of words. But in the fall of
! 1910 the postal service was subjected
| to the theories of the then postmaster
general, Frank Hitchcock, who issued
an order to take up the slack" And
| his ambition was to report a surplus
in the postoffice department. Under
| Hitchcock's efforts the railway mail
| service was hit particularly hard.
Space and time will not permit og
any detail reference to the unwise and
| injurious policies then applied.
| Then in the change of political con-
/ ent postmaster general. 1t seems that
since the day he took office he has
been obsessed with a determination to
! outdistance his predecessor in the
matter OF reporting the postal service
! as money making institution for the
! federal government. 1t may be that
he has attained his personal desire,
but when he tells the postal employees
and the American people that the pos
tai service has reached a standard of
efficiency the highest known in its
history, the employees and the people
must seriously differ with him. If
Mr.. Burleson, himself, believes it, it
can only be because he knows much
less about the former efficiency of the
postal service than those who were in
intimate touch with it. AS to the re-
ports of the supervisory officials lit
tie need be said except that it is
matter of common knowledge that for
such an officer to differ in word or
| deed from the policy of the postmas-
ter-general, means severance from the
service iIf that capacity. 1t is one of
the deplorable conditions of our pos
tai system that the reports of the SUI
pervisory officials must agree with the
policy of the postmaster-general, even
though they know that policy to be
wrong, No other stretch of magma
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