The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-02-27
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power TO Az NV rates that shall be paid BY citizens
Of The United States on their foreign mails. even
though not cent OF the money 80 collected hy our
government goes 60 any foreign country We pay
foreign countries for handling our mail 10 their ter
ritory hy handling their mails IN ours
This waS a very soriouf proposition. There
many arms and business concerns ln the United
States which thousands Of dollars every year Tor
pcstege ON foreign mails. and the proepoc q having
% double such payments IN these hard times. Wlth-
CONSUMER. was Ear from attractive SO. after long
night 90 hard work the proposition. the Advisory
Committee submitted TO Mr. Praorer unu recommon
dalton
"lnasmueh AZ Low postage rates tend To faclu
tate international communication and 60 pro-
mote more cordial relations between nations
opposed 90 any Increases any rate 10
postage from any country 10 any other country
10. however, certain countries which suYcr
Inc from the effects on imitation fool che need 90
Increased postal revenue We submit that ID can
be- obtained by requiring The payment ~ Inter
national postage IA gold or gold equivalent
without the disadvantage nnavridhhn attendant
upon an Increase on rates which must remain
IN force until later Congress- can regecc them
We pointed out that fof the present this would
produce more revenue than tho dorhiiua ~ rates
proposed, that y would correct itself automatically
deaation ia accomplished. that Il would not ho
an incrrurive preccdnt 90 ne Iona course Of down
mafically and permanently end al speculation In
international reply coupons such ~ ponz tried
rnendation The next question how % oct 81
adopted u vas evident that our delegates a.
Na8rld going 10 be met by organized "hloc"
Of Europeans IN favor 81 doubling rates
The best thing we can DO. said Nr PraoSer.
t'tH 70 MAKE frienna Win knup or our nfiNhhOfH
from tho South and SEQ n can't Eot all the Amer
90 stand tofethcr.
not neither NJ Praorer nor NJ wohor speaks
spanish or French. which that time tho omcia
language Of tho Congress Then M Praegor be-
thought kinsolf OF Texas eirl Misc Elizabeth Ice
Woods 81 san Antonio. who had done clever
work for the Post Once Department. and for sonlo
United states business concerna In MoSico she was
horn Monterey and brought M there. bur educated
AZ tho University % California Sho speaks Spanish
81 the Latiu-Amerieans do. and underaiands tbcm
and their wNll 40 they do Also she n shut
lary fluent IN French
Fortunately. Miss Woods accepted apposntment a.
a dalerAic 20 Madrid She chosen unanimously
70 preside At tho seesion when tho convention was
slrncy the frat treaty 20 which a the Republics
81 the Western iIemiRphere aignatoriep Thus
what started out 10 BE- merely tho formation ~
American block 20 counternct The efforts 81 the
European "hloc" 20 double rates Developed into a
permanent organization Of far reaching value 10 all
tho Republics OF the New World.
Miss Woods has ewritten for tho Advisory Commit.
tee on Foreign Mails account OF tho Congress md
~ work. which reveals some Of the for the
success achieved thcre by the United States dele.
cation