Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1920-09-30
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Efficiency continues to be the watch
word Of the Hon. Albert Sidney Bur.
leson's postal system,
AS those WHO follow the srortiAr
news will recall one William Harri
son Dempsey met William Miske il
the prize ring at Benton Harbor I.abOr
day, Labor day fell on the 9Th ci
September.
Today the sporting department r.
ceived an envelope postmarked from
New York 1t contained advance no.
tices on the Dempsey Miske bout
There are some who may allow
party affiliations to interfere with
their judgment and in a fit of annoy
ance compare Dempsey with Mr.. Bur
Lesson in that both have knockouts tc
their credit Mr. Dempsey, they viii
point out, finishes his opponents n
three rounds. Mr. Burleson. 50 jeal,
GUS spirits aver. knocked the postal
system the proverhial forty ways fol
Sabbath in the first month or so Of his
administration.
This is not fair to Mr. BnrlCson
Often during the administration Of
George Washington it took letters .
week or more 20 travel from New
York to Boston. And had there been
city OF Ottawa at that time it would
have taken at least three weeks for a
letter to reach here from New York
The advance notices on the Labor day
fiqht uara bn INV n pt i1aJ until ,,
least two or three weeks before the
fight occurred and it is now nearly
Oct, /
We can't tell just when they were
mailed, as the date line had been
taken out of the cancelling stamp
This perhaps was done to save ink
There also arrived in today's mali
two bulletins from the National Geo
graphic society's office in Washing
ton. The release dates were Sept
and Sept. 4 They weren't mailed
more than ten days before the release
date,
Receiving this mail has been an en-.
couragemen. For time it was
feared that letters from special cor
respondent who witnessed the last
phase OF the Argonne battle and had
entrusted his stories TO the mails had
gone astray, but it is believed nov
tnat they may arrive in time to be pub
llshed in conjunction with the cclebra.
tion OF the second anniversary of arm.
istice day
hint Mr.. BurleSon is not 10 blame
The honorable gentleman from Texa,
Is only the head Of the system. The
Hon. Albert Sidney is nothing but the
postmaster general of the United
States. If the mails are late il Is not
MS lault Is he a common messenger
boy that he must deliver all the mail
that is sent out daily 1t would be
physical impossibHty, and besides. \
messenger boy must have some degree
OF efficiency.
NO, the delay in mail cannot be lain
at Mr. Burleson's Threshold He has
thousands Of high salaried postmen
ana postal clerks under his supervi-
sion whose business ii is to see that
the mail is gotten out on time
And then hero are the trains Can
Mr., BurlesOn regulate the time OF the
trans OF course there are those who
n'i soy tHdt no lrHlN mas ever been
three to six weeks latc but why quib |
Bile over trines?
IN Washington the postmaster gen.
eral may be seen almost every day
driving to he white house. On these .
Journeys he uti,izes the carriage and !
pair allowed to cabinet officers by
congreS,
Some have hintel th,t this oqeiq. \
age Is also used to carry the mail .
But Notwithstanding these slv inuoa.
docs, the Hon. Burlrson /; an efficient
postmaster i is due to his untiring
efIorts that the government is able to "
dispense with employees who. while Of .
icient and well trained to the work I
have reached the age of Gl aud are
compelled to retire Another thing IN
his credit IL hat letters are now car. I
fied Tor 2 cents and no cancelled
stamps can be used again.
These works has he ACCOMPLISHED .
What he has done to the postal sye.
TEN has never been eQualed In the hl..
tory OF the country, and he has done II
II all, by himself
Viva la Burlesonl