Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-29

effective method of restoring normal
price levels and preventing waste.
Postmaster Hays Address
Postmaster General Hays in an ad-
Dress today at the annual luncheon of
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association outlined the attitude of
his department toward the press.
There are twJ things in connection
with our relation which / would state
and re-emphasize. First, it. is not part
Of primary business of the pcstoffice
department to act as a censor of the
press. This should not and will not
be.
Second, we are going to get along
together and do the right thing in all
of these matters of classification
rates, etc. and I want it distinctly
understood there will never be any
occasion when a publisher with any
kind of grievance is not thrice
welcome to sit down with the head of
the department and work it out"
He promised to give the question of
ton. saying that the one objectionable
sin of the postoffice is not, to deliver
the daily newspaper on time.
THE newspaper is prominently a
thing man wants when he wants it,
and if he can't have it when he wants
II he doesn't want it at ALL" he said
we all know that the new spapers
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the press on time. that they are deliv-
cred to the postofiice on time and that
therefore If they do not reach their
subscribers on time the fault lies not
with the publishers but with the post
office department.
And, generally speaking, that's so.
I'm not going TO dodge the responsible
ity. There's no use in lodging when
the lodging isn't good"
Mr.. Hays brought personal mes
sage from President Harding. The
President told him yesterday. he said,
to tell the publishers we expect your
help in bringing this republic and it's
varied interests into the straight-for-
ward track again"
Mr.. Hays told the publishers he was
determined to put the entire postal
service upon purely business basis
so serviceable and sound that no
political party will ever again dare
attempt to ignore or evade it ulti-
ately.
The postal adjustment is most
certainly not an institution of profit
nor politics." he said, but an institu-
ton for service. You can't expect men
and women to give service if they
are to be the shuttlecocks of politics. :"
He said he would make certain that
honest and efficient service would be
honestly recognized in the depart
emnt; that he would make such recti.
fications as in all decency and fair
ness must be made to assure a square
dear and that the civil service would
be broadened and strengthened wher-
ever possible.
He outlined plans for improvine the
condition of the employees through the
agency OF a new welfare department
IN the service. He said that although
the employees have the brains and the
hands to do their jobs well. the work.
ing conditions in many places were
unsatisfactory.
Outunlng comprehensive system
ior lettering the service generally.
ne recounted steps that have been
taken to facilitate foreign and air.
plane mail.
NOW that arrangements have been
made for sending mail to soviet Rus
sla, he said, the foreign mail service
is again at normally.
AS an adjunct to the campaign for
increasing trade between the United
states and South America. Mr.. Havs
said international money orders NAV
now be exchanged with many of the
south and Central American coun-
tries and negotiations are being con-
Quoted with the postal administra
tons of all the others.
1T is expected he said, that very
soon it will be possible for American
exporters to receive payment for
their goods wherever shipped in South
America by postal money orders pav-
able in dollars at their local postof-
fees.
Iii inns connection, too, / might
suggest that I hope it will be possi-
bic to induce the commercial interests
of the chambers of commerce to send
delegates TO the pan american pos
tai congress at Buenos Aires next
August to help develop this"
Mr.. Hays emphasized his recent an
nouncement that he was determined
to wipe out mail robberies. He de-
clared the loss of more than s6,oOo,0 900
in SO major robberies last year to be
an fntolerable situation.
I'VE assume that the mail is the
one most inviolate thing in the coun-
try and it must be kept So he said.
WASHINGTON