The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-01-21
rs PENNA. TOWNS
. RESIST HAYS PLAN.
Fight to Keep Mail Delivery, Which
Postmaster General Would Drop.

Members of the Pennsylvania dele
cation will press for legislation con-
tinuing the village delivery service,
which Postmaster General Hays wants
to eliminate.
In Pennsylvania seventy-five villages
would be deprived of the service if
Congress followed the recommended
ton of Mr.. Hays. Representative
Griest gives the list as follows:
Annville, Archibald, Bellwood, Ber-
lin, B%ridgeville, Burgettstown, Cata-
wissa, Clarion, Clarks Summit, Coal
dale, C~orwensville, Derry, Dunbar,
Elizabeth, Ephrata, Everett, Fair
chance, Frackville, Gallitzin, Girard-
vile, Glassport, Green Castle, Hawley,
Hughesville, Hummelstown, Jessup,
Kulpsmont, Littlestown, Lykens, Mari
eta, Masontown, Miflinburg, Mif1in-
town, Milford, Montgomery. Mount
Joy, Mount Pocono, Myerstown, Ma
trona, N~esquehoning, New Holland,
Newport, Northumberland, North
Wales, Orwigsburg, Osceola Mills,
Grove, Point Marion, Portage, Red
lockwood, st. Clair, S~elinsgrove,
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Brownsville, South Fork, Spring City,
Strasburg. Summit Hill, Tidioute,
Tower City, Troy, Watsontown,
Weatherly, White Haven, Williams
burg, Williamstown, Wrightville and
Wyomissing.
Mr.. Griest has been informed that
752 postofices in the country get this
service. He has made a careful can
vass and found it altogether popular.
"The reports are overwhelming" he
said, ito the effect that mail delivery
in those towns is a proved success,
financially and economically, and of
distinct advantage to the Government
and the people"
This system of the postal service"
Mr.. Griest continued, has been very
economically administered; it pro-
duces a return to the Government not
only in a business and financial way,
but through various indirect channels,
and at the same time provides celebrity
and certainty in mail service to a class
of citizenship which represents the
highest standard of American home
and industrial ideas.
persons who have not examined
into the situation in these towns of
1000 to 10000, where the e mail de
livery system has been installed will
find upon inquiry that the beneficial
results from the installation of the
new service have been surprisingly
great.
Congress has given city delivery to
so, 000, 900 people and rural delivery to
half as many more, and there are
many. and sufficient reasons why Con
gress should make life more comfort
able and convenient for the millions
of people who reside in our active and
prosperous towns of less than 10, 900
population by continuing to afford
them ample mail facilities, the annual
report of the Postmaster General to
the contrary Notwithstanding"
The above article, from the Phila-
delphia Evening Ledger of Jan. 16, re-
fers to what is known as the Village
Delivery Service, the same as Pleas
antville has at the present time. II
will be noted that a strong fight will
be made in opposition to the abolition
of this service by the Pennsylvania
delegation in Congress, and they will
have the hearty support of represen-
tatiyes from several other States. in
Guiding Congressman Bacharach of
this district.