Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-20
DON'T BUY A LITTLE COT
WHEN A BIG BED IS NEEDED
makeshift Plans for Enlarsire Postal
Faculties Are Foolish In View Of the
Certainty Of the Continued Rapid
Expansion OF Rualnesa

Expansion Of Business
A MAN with family of small children is
"A justified in buying cot for n baby
'hat had outgrown its crib only if he is
unable TO afford bed.
The cot is but makeshif,. which the
child Will outsrow just as he outgrcw the
crib
The report OF the Joint Postal Commits
sion OF Congress on conditions in this city.
Notwithstanding its many merits. suggests
the recommendation Of n we'll to do man TO
his wife that they buy cot for Johnnie.
The postal business of the city has out.
grown It's crib, yet the Joint Commission
suggests that an addition I've built on one
side of the crib 50 that it can stretch out one
leg nt time.
nat the situation demands is thorough
survey. not only Of tho postal needs for the
next twcnty.fv" or fifty years. but Of the
railroad terminal problem and its solution.
The recommendation THAI new branch
Postotice bc built IN Market street near
the Broad Street Station is based on the
assumption that the station is TO remain
permanently where 1t now II. Yet there are
thousands Of Philadclphians who arc hoping
that the directors OF the railroad will con-
slider the importance Of bringing their
through trains into the heart Of the city
and will locate the new station. when 1t is
huit, at some point northwest Of its present
site. The city suffers in reputation because
III" through trains discharge their rnsscn-
gers long way from the business center of
the town. and Philadelrhians who wish 20
take through train are inconvcnicnccd by
the necessity Of going to West Philadelphia
or to North Philadelphia TO hoard IT
4 union station to which the trains Of
all tho lines entering the city would come
may he imprncticable. though that is by no
means certain yet the PennSy lvania system
can help the city and help Itself by plan
ming its new station in such Il way ns TO
make il the stopping point OF its trains to
III" West and tho South.
This station would pat III" proposed
Market street Postotfce almost far away
from tho mail trains ms tho present Post
office at Ninth street now Is.
What would seem to be the beginning of
the solution Of the problem would 10 thc
adoption of the plan suggested Ivy Mr..
Hoover In connection with n Federal build
ing for the ScsQui Centennial.
The present PostOfEre accommodates tho
Federal courts with tho United States Dis
trlct tttorncr the United states Marshal.
tho United States commissioners and tn"
Internal Revenue collector. When Prcsi
don't Harding appoints The new Federal
b,s : -
be necessary 10 provide accommodations for
n third Judge Tn" quarters for tho two
Judges now sitting here arc inadequate.
Now. Mr. Hoover suggested that III"
Government erect on the Parkway "A dig
niticd building 10 be used, first, for th"
national exhibit at the SesGui- (ent"nnial
Fair. and thcn 20 he used as tho head
quarters for ,hr Federal courts md the
other Federal departments, save tho Post
Office. This plan would vacatc all the
space in the present Postoticc not used for
handling the mails. It would make It
,0ssibio 10 rcarrange the interior ot that
building in such way as better t" accom-
modate the business done there. business
increasing every year and bound 7" increase
with much grenter rnpidity in the future
than il has IN the past.
Many large office buildings and hotels
are going up in the heart OF the city When
they are occupied the business population
Of the district in which they ar" located
will he much greater thnn It is now. and the
handling Of the mail Of this population Will
cnmneI tho appointment " many extra car
-ior. AVID will demand greater space for
their accommodation.
What is going on now wiI! so on for the
,ovt twenty five or fifty years. Plans
shorld take into account tho probable
crowth of business for 'he n"Xt twenty five
vnars at least It's expansion may be so
rrcot that now central Iostofirc will have
70 he built. while the present 'oStothrc will
hecome a downtown branch. No site for
,bot Postoflicc should bc selected until II
,s known definitely what the solution of the
railroad terminal problem is to be. And
then the building should be for postal pur-
noses alone.
The courts ought to have n building Of
such proportions and OF such dignity as 10
oo,,nort with the administration of justice
i q rich milton Of NOR" than 100 600 900
nonula,ion. A site for it could readily be
f,und on the Parkway. which 1t Is hoped
will no lined with monumental structures
of public character,
The recommendations Of the Joint Com
mission have. unfortunately, not gone be-
rond the immediate and pressing needs. 1t
may bc necessary TO adopt some makrshifts
,rtu comprehensive plans can be prepared,
hut the importance Of plans looking to the
fu.ure expansion Of the postal business
must not be overlooked.
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