New Britain herald., 1926-03-03

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 or assistant, The business is se
 rlously handicapped because W
 have too much law; 90 per cent c
 the 700 million dollars is dennitel
 fixed hy law and nobody can chang
 t. Salaries, civil service status, etc all arc fixed by law.
 "The growth of postal receipts i
 q good indication of the growth O
 the country, lt l. were not for tn,
 fact that many of us wilt die of within the next few years. eondi
 lions would be so bad we would lI,
 anyhow al the rate We are growing
 Twenty years ago the postofficc rc
 foipts were about 900 million dol
 lars. Now they are almost foul
 times that much.
 The great cities Of the United
 Slairs arc going ahead in such leaps
 and bounds that 50 years from now
 New Britain will be a suburb of New
 York, Automobile traffic growth is NO rapid and inc streets arc hecom- lIS conGcstcd so rapidly that anyone "ho can figure ID years ahead can Sle that something must be done Ia teguIat" transportation in cities. There must be some solution in 10 years 10 relieve tho surface of cities ut much of their traffic. can see nothing but the underground tubes aS solution. We had thought of an aerial system such as you see in dc partment stores but underground seems more practical.
 The streets of Boston are so con- gestcd that sometimes We must 0l- 10" an hour for one mile from the posiolttco 10 the station. Business men cannot live and prosper unless they have q perfect mail system. There is not one thing you depend upon for accuracy as much as you do the postal system.
 There is nowhere in the world today anything that produces as much as q two cent stamp. It's the only thing two cents will buy. The dollar is only small change, the 50 cents rattles around lonesomely in your pocket and the quarter is not even good enough for a tip anymore.
 Hast year the postal department almost broke even. We have more than 4O,U60 rural carriers and we are giving postoffiCcs 10 remote rural communities. If a postmaster in rural community takes in only $75 in q quarter We give him the $15 and 6 per cent more. Tho Raspberry. Ark, postmaster who fcok in s7G2 for the year was paid $l0. The city of New York took in Go millions last year. They made q big profit. But there wouldn't be any New York if there weren't 50.- o00 or more Raspbcrries and New Britains and other towns. It doesn't matter that some places pay and others do not. it's the country as a whole that counts.
 Air Mail Doesn't Pay
 "Tho air mail doesn't pay. But ifs the business of the government 10 do ''''''FH i'' ApI Aiidl tpi tdil | bO lOl yourself, We are now sending planes daily across the country, leaving New York at 10 o'clock In the morn- ing and arriving at San Francisco by , o'clock the next afternoon.
 "NoW it remains for some in- s'nins Yankee 10 open up airrlane routos and take over this business The government will not always stay in the transportation business, even in air lines.
 Henry Ford Is already making bids to carry mail by airplane and in few places he is doing fl. Other routes arc being talked of. In few years we will have air trunk lines under private contracts encouraging private enterprise and carrying mail, | passengers and merchandise. The l hope of the government Is 10 de- l I"lOp q natural air service the same | IS q natural railroad service, then | h" government will have it's air |, transportation system tho same az it now has it's rail transportation sys- cm.
 'Wc make mistakes in the post of- ice department. But not so many IS correspondents do. Many people carefully address q tag for q pack K" and then forget 10 tie the tag | Q inc package. And girls, if you vent with mo through our dead let CT office and saw some of the love "tt"rs we get thorc, you'd never writ another love letter after that, md if you did, you'd never sign our name 10 ii.
 "W" have plenty of trouble in florida with mails. Towns grow nto cities over night. In three cit. cS to get men 10 handle mail wo paN" had 10 rent tents from the rmv and send men down from the forth. W" cant offer these men any Joro money and tho government makes them pay their own travelling Vp, nE"S.
 'or'mcntS on New England Lcthargy Most any part of the country r"ms to have q little more pep and nnch and kick and hurray boys prit 10 il than New England and r"ms 10 l." going ahead faster, The act is that a lot of New England rS have gone out and put the pep lto these things and it is bound 10 Om" back.
 "N"W England should bend more norgv 10 serving inc industries al- ady existing, Your greatest salya- lon lies in doing everything in th" orld to keep the industries already ere. New England as a whole is ard hi. The railroads are almost n th" verge Of bankruptcy. You ant prosper with bankrupt rail- pads. Your politicians and states- trn af Washington must fight for "W England as iho southerners and "Sr"rn'rs fight for their sections. f'r England tries 10 hc foo digni- nd and too high toninod.
 We've got tho goods here. can ny a farm in Now Hampshire that's very inch as good as any farm in z