The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-03-06

power for the town or any lndi-
vidual in it. / have done this, l
say, and cheerfully, though at
times it has necessarily discom-
NODDED me to do so.
Although certain men and wo-
men have come to me with the
matter and have asked me not to
ever give them away in it land |
shall never do SOY, yet there are
others who, recognizing the un-
fairness and utter and absolute
lack of justice in certain features
of the case, who have openly and
above-board told me what is being
said and done, and by whom.
Although the present postmas-
ter does not get as much compen-
sation as was paid the same office
III 1885 met income), notwith-
standing the fact that the price of
living has more than thribbled
since, and that, further, the mail
is now frequently hauled up piled
on truck because it is too heavy
to bring on a regular cart, and,
as is easily proven by the porter
and other railroad employees, has
been on an average about eight
cen sacks of mail in and out twice
a day; whereas, few years ago
the incoming and outgoing mail
was all received and dispatched in
one little lock pouch, thus neces-
stating the increased labor and
burden incident thereto, notwith-
standing the fact that this is all
true, | have never hesitated one
moment to stop long enough to
assist the mother to get informa-
ton about her boy, to write the
letter of recommendation (when
merited) for the fellow citizen as
piring to better things, to find out
about the best organization
branch or division of the service
your boy would be suited for and
to help him to get into the one he
most desired; to assist the de-
pendent, whether it was father,
mother or sister to find out why
the allowance and allotment had
not arrived, and to do all | could
to help them to get it speedily.
To take upon myself the response
bility of getting private misunder-
standings adjusted to the profit
and best interests of my patrons
in their dealings with the mail or
der house and many other things
that | could go on almost indefi-
nitely and enumerate, which have
compelled me to write hundreds
of letters, paying the postage my
self and furnishing the stationery
and devoting the time necessary
thereto and many times when it
absolutely compelled me to lay
aside my own work and do it at
night, dwelling on it hours and
hours after many of the ones who
so like to cause me pain or incon-
venience had long been asleep. /
say | have done this and other
things that have caused me hours
of additional labor-labor for
which | did not ask or desire pay,
labor which was not expected or
required by the Post Office De-
and yet some of these
same ones have sought to wound
me the deepest.
| have never neglected my duty
and any statement to the con-
trary is false. I have gone day
after day without one mouthful of
food till three o'clock in the af-
ternoon-wouldn' have had time
to eat it if | had had it under my
hand, This, my clerks, some of
the patrons and my wife know to
be true and that it has happened
not only once, but dozens of times
this fall and winter-and then oft
times would go home at three
o'clock that same day and pour
over books, records, reports and
correspondence till eleven and
twelve o'clock at night, and the
same night, too; and then because
| did not get down next morning
in time to distribute fifteen to