Evening star., 1921-03-28
CONGRESS TO ACT
AS Hays DIRECTORS
UNDER NEW PLANS
Senate and House Commit
tees Will Act With Joint
Commission on Service.
NAMES ADVISORY COUNCIL
OF SEVEN BUSINESS MEN
Three Organizations Will Work
Hand-in-Hand With Officials of
Post Office Department.

Postmaster General Hays today an
nounced plans to constitute the Sem
ate and House committees on post Of
fees and post roads as the board of
directors of the postal service. with
the joint commission on postal serv-
ice occupying a position analogous to
the executive committee of the board.
Mr. Hays also announced the ap-
pointment of seven business men of
the nation as members of the ad-
visory council provided for in the act
which created the joint commission
on postal affairs.
Will Serve Without Pay.
The advisory council, which is to
serve without pay. was announced
John Gribbrl. chairman. Philadelphia;
Charles e. Bancroft. Boston: Union n.
Bethel. New York city; Prof. NJ f..
Cooley. Ann Arbor, Mich; T. w
Dwight. Sioux Falls. S. D.; Albert
Holmboe. Crookston. Mimi, and Col.
l. 4. Wade. Cornelia. Ga.
MIR. Hays stated that the commit
tees on post offices and post roads
together with the joint commission
on postal service and the new ad-
visory council, will work hand in
hand with the officials of the Post
The board of directors and the
executive committee Postmaster
General Hays intimated. will be in
constant touch with him in all the
plans to be devised for lettering the
mail service of the country and the
working conditions of the 100000 emf
ployes of the postal service.
Rooms to BE Retained.
John {. koons. who has been first
assistant postmaster general, will be
continued at the department as a
postal expert, in such capacity func-
tioning AS member of the joint com
mission on postal service, or "execu-
tive committee"
Col. Hubert Work of Colorado is
to be appointed first assistant post
master general
Discussing the new policy, Post
master General Hays said:
The purpose is to develop a closer
and a very intimate relation with the
Senate and House committees on pos;
Offices and post roads; to endeavor to
have these committees jointly occupy
MD oua 10 that OF the b6Asd of .di-
fectors In any farSe business; to have
them advising continually as to the
methods Of improvement and opera
tioh and 10 take an active. continuing
interest in the service.
I'm addition. it is proposed to make
the joint commission on postal service
occupy a position analogous the
executive committee of any board of
directors in any large business, giving
still more attention 10 the business Of
the department and very definitely
participating in the largest way in
the effort to improve and maintain
the service"
The joint commission on postal serv-
ice was created last year by act of
and five members of the Senate anI
five members of the House committe ees
on post Offices and post roads. and a
postal expert appointed by the Post
master General. together with an ad-
visory council provided for in the act.
to serve without pay. consisting of
seven persons experienced in business
and commercial transactions to aid
in it's work.
This commission now consists Of the
following: Charles f. Townsend. SEN
ator from Michigan. chairman; e. H.
McDermott. secretary; Thomas Ster-
ling. senator from South Dakota
George H. Moses. senator from New
Hampshire; David l. Walsh. senator
from Massachusetts,; one vacancy:
Halvar Steenerson, representative
resentative from Massachusetts; w
w. Griest. representative from Penn
sylvania: Thomas NJ Bell. representa-
tive from Georgia: one vacancy, and
postal expert. John c. Rooms
1t was the plan originally that the
commission finish it's work BY March
1. 1921. but 1t has been continued until
June 30. 1922. and will be most active
in the departmental work.