The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-23

liar organizations. This is priraar-
lily to acquaint business men direr4.
ly with how they may help in. "A.
cilitating mail deliveries, mainly
through proper addressing ana
. mailing during the day instead m
dumping quantities of mail on ne
postofffees just at the coles of az
business day.
Postmastsrs have been told To en-
courage constructive criticism ara
Legitimate complaints of inadequa.s
service, and have been told TO give
personal and prompt attention 10
these complaints when they come
in. Also, these postmasters have
been instructed to gey in touch with
school authorities with a view Of
educating school children in pos
tai matters.
Mr.. Hays is not claiming credit
for the system as the child Of his
BRAIN It has been urged for years.
He does believe, though, that he is
going to get results from pushing
the plan as hard as it can be push
ed.
"Man Early Campaign.
In the campaign TO induce mail
ing throughout the day, the be
gin at horne" policy was adopted.
The postmaster general first took
il up with The other members OF the
cabinet and brought the mail stu
alton to the attention of members
OF congress. 1t was found that
nearly every governmental bureau
had been holding mail until the
close of the day, then depositing
il all with the postoffice. This
c1ogging of the mails naturally re-
suited in delays which were often
unavoidable.
One of the first results of .he
plan was that it was possible to
shift many of the night mail work
ers to day jobs, from which these
employees naturally benefited. To
business men Mr.. Hayes appealed
on a give and take basis. He ask
ed them how they would like the
postoffice department to hold their
mail all day, then dump it all IN
them at the close of the business
day. 1T is just as blessed to de-
liver mail to the postoffice hour by
hour as it is to receive it hour by
hour" he pointed out Almost IN
mediate results were seen.
In order to give postal employees
a close interest in the detection Of
mail robbers, Mr.. Hays astonished
them by offering reward of S5,OOo
without any strings to it, to any
postal employe who brought in a
robber. Then arms and ammuni-
ton for the men engaged in hand
ling valuable mail were obtained
from the war department. Since this
happened, there hasn't been a mail
robbery of major importance.
In the handling of many phases of
the business of the department. MI
Hays has drafted men of the great
est ability in their own lines Dr.
FrankeI is an example. The puT-
chasing agent of a big railroad is
serving without compensation IN
the purchasing department Of tas
postoffice department. The proper
man is now being sought to take
care OF the system of vehicles oper-
ated by the department, including
between 5000 and 1900 automo-
biles. The transportation expert q
one of the big railroads is serving
es second assistant to Mr.. Hays, in
charge of the railway mail service,
among other things.
The system is being extended 10
the parcel post service, an express
business conducted by the govern
ment and handling over 100000
900 pieces of mail in bulky form
every year. Then there is the
banking end of the postal business
Mr. Hays is authority for the state
ment that there is a billion dollars
boarded away in American socks +.
and chimney corners which shouk
be in circulation. through deposil
in the postal savings system, to as
sist in the nations industrial Ee-
vival. To lure these dollars from
their lairs, Mr.. Hays plans to in
crease the ratio of interest paid 20
depositors, to make interest pay
ments apply to deposits left in for
less than year, to remove the sse
liEit of depositoTs, to provide for
joint and trust funds, and to eG-
tend the postal savings feature Of
the service to $4,000 postoffices. Il
is now established in only $500 NJ
fees.