Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-28
"The Mailman" Which 10 Being
Shown at the Colonial Theatre To-
day and Tomorrow Receives the
Highest Endorsement of All Post
masters and Employees Of Where
aver IL is Reinn Shown

Shown at the Colonial Theatre To.
day and Tomorrow Receives the
Highest Endorsement of All Post.
masters and Employees Of Where
ever it is Being Shown
The theatre going public will have
the opportunity of their life time of
Witnessing the Postal Service in gen.
eral. The local postottice handles in
the neighborhood of 100000 pieces
of mail matter every day and many
times more than that amount. "A
clock ticks. We do not notice it. 1t
stops. Our attention Immediately
anything to which our consciousness
becomes accustomed-the same is
true in the Post Office of Augusta.
THE Mail Service operates. We
take it for granted as we take the
tick of the clock for granted. Not
unil it stops do we notice that it
has been operating for years. Not
until it stopped, if that We're possible
would we realize the tremendous
value to our daily lives.
Have We no appreciation for the
service that postal employees per-
form for us? Perhaps we have, yet
we have been so accustomed TO re-
ceiving that service all our lives
that our sense of appreciation has
been deadened. We need something
that will rivit our attention to the
facts as they exist today in the con-
diions of life among mail clerks and
carriers.
Did you ever happen to notice on
going to the different windows at
the local Post Office that each
and every man is more or less gray
lntn
with our hardworking officials MIR
John Arnold and his capable as
sistant Mr.. Ryan-notice the mail
carriers their h air nearly white
and the reason of it all is that they
devote every minute of their life
work in making the Postal Service
10000. To me the humble mail men
are far more colorful and pictur-
esque than most laymen realize
When we see them plodding along
the streets of our fair Capitol city
through the long hours of the day
they appear rather drab and unin-
teresting. Their gray uniforms
often highten this impression. But
when we get beneath that uniform
! and look into their hearts and their
souls. when we know their lives as
in 1.-THE Mail Man." one readily sees
III tieIH IL "OTlu OF drama. 10 me
therefore, "The Mail Man" is the
best film story ever screened in
Augusta. While citizens are in
clined to overlook the existence of
the postal service, there is some
thing else that keeps their atten-
ton with the utmost intensity. You
bet it does! Their pocketbooks are
/ directly affected by it and that's
why they're interested. 1t is the
shrinking value of the dollar which
has caused CONSERVATION among
wage earnerS ever since the silver
standard has been invented.
Have they ever stopped TO think,
however, of that decreasing value
in relation to the constancy of pay
ment in the postal department ?
Perhaps not yet they should. For
unless something is done to remedy
the discrepancy that now exists be-
tween the two, the postal service
viii not attract any prospective en-
ployees. This will mean a breaking
up of the existing system and n
consequent drain on those pocket
Books which mean so much to us.
honestly believe that 1.-THE Mail
Man" will do much to point out the
DEBT that is due this public servitor
and l have found it to be. at the
same time very, very entertaining. {"
The Mailman" will be screened AT
2.l5 and us today and at 9. q.
and s SATURDAY..