Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-08-12
WHY THE WAUWATOSA PoST
OFFICE SHOULD REMAIN AS 1T
is AT PRESENT
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TO give US the carriers we need as If
we were part of Milwaukee. Her
past treatnent of US has proved this.
She has given US the carriers we have
asked for. The Department IS will
ing to rent suitable quarters if some
one viii provide building.
The Department advertised twice in
1917 for better quarters. None were
found that were suitable. The bids
that were offered were withdrawn be-
cause of the rising price of labor and
material.
West Allis has been under the iuris-
diction of the Milwaukee p. o. for 10
years. She has nine city carriers and
two rursls. She has less room than
we with lobby one-fourth the size
of ours. She manages by having
double carriers desks. There is not
one lock box in her office.
Strange, isn't it, that just as West
Allis is trying to get out from under
Milwaukee's jurisdictior somebody in
Wauwatosa thinks that Wauwatosa
would be bettered by having what
West Allis wishes she did not have !?
Last winter the citizens of West Allis
petitioned the Department to place
her in her proper class as a Presiden-
tial post Office.
Would the educational interests OF
your community and the affairs Of
your city be better looked after if you
dispensed with your Board of Educa-
ton and your City Council and let
Milwaukee look after these matters I?
Milwaukee is fine city, but she has
a large family to take care of. She
finds it necessary to place some of
her children in barracks while ours are
comfortably housed.
Do you want to exchange your own
City Council with its painstaking, in
telligent interest in local affairs for
that of the Milwaukee City Council +?
Even though they might wish to be
ever so fair, they would find it very
difficult to fill the place that your own
City Council does.
| have a high respect for the POST
master of Milwaukee and his assist
ants, all of whom have shown this
post office a fine consideration and
uniform and very frequent courtesies;
but the Milwaukee Postmaster has
many sub-stations and the so-called
independent station of West Allis to
look after. He must in any case de-
pend upon the Superintendent of each
station for immediate supervision. l
cannot see what can be gained by any
such arrangement. IF West Allis
wants better quarters (and they need
it very muchl, or a new carrier, she
must now apply to the Milwaukee
?. NJ; if he approves, he applies to the
P. 0. Department and they send an
Inspector. If his advice is favorable,
then the Department acts.
III we want anything, we make O
direct appeal to the Department.
West Allis is 21a times the size of
Wauwatosa and has gained, the last
decade, in population, 10000 If an
appropriation were to be made for
buildings in Milwaukee, it would nat
urally be used for enlarging their post
office. The 100000 people of Milwau-
kee are not interested in enlarged
quarters for West Allis. A number of
cities in this state smaller than Wau-
watosa have government buildings.
Now, when the government must econ
omize at every turn, is not the time
to ask for a government building; but
it is the time to ask for enough room
in which fo do olIY work
The Case of Oak Park.
As you know, Oak Park is part Of
the city of Chicago. She, nevertheless,
maintains a degree of independence in
government. In the matter of mail
service, she is independent and instead
of being housed in crowded poorly
ventilated building like West Allis she
has a government building.
To my mind this surely makes it
wiser for US to retain our independ-
ence and our power of direct appeal to
the Department.
Let US maintain our loyalty to our
own city and do everything that we
can to advance her interests.