The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-06-17
Whose Post Office Is 1t, Anyway.

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Service will take no sides in the
strike" has rocked the country and
has caused millions of thinking
Americans to wonder where we are
drifting. AS a result of the attitude
taken by the Post Office Depart
ment, it is not now possible to mail
parcel post packages containing
food, medicines and newspapers for
delivery to officials and workers in
plants where strikes exist By its
action the Post Office Department
reserves to itself the entire right to
say what we can mail and what we
cannot mail.
Evidently the Post Office De-
partment has reversed it's position
because I find in the Chicago Tri-
bune of June S the following let
ter:
"A Prejudiced Postoffice"
Evanston, ILL.,, June 4.-You
should state in your editorials that
the postoffice department delivered
parcel post packages to the sit
down strikers who held the Fan.
steel plant in North Chicago last
January.
1T is very apparent that our New
Deal government is taking sides
in the strike controversies. Why
should the lawbreakers in North
Chicago be fed and the law abid-
ing workers in the steel plants in
Ohio and Illinois be Disseminated
against?"
George F. Widman."
I am wondering if the people
realize the full import of Mr.. Far
ley's action and where it may lead
to. can see where it might be pos
sible to bar from the mails newspa-
pers and periodicals that were I'M
friendly to the administration in
power. Carrying it a little further,
it would be possible to prevent an
unfriendly candidate for office
from using the mails to further his
candidacy. Those who have been
pooh-poohing the idea that we are
gradually drifting into a one-man
form of government had better sit
down and do a little calm think
ing. AS a matter of fact, we are sit
ting on powder key and many do
not realize it.
A Disarmament Conference
Needed
My readers will recall that some
weeks ago I introduced a resolution
in Congress asking the President
to invite the governments of Great
Britain, Germany, France, Italy,
Russia and Japan to send repre-
sentatives to a limitations of arms
conference to be held in this coun-
try. Since then Italy and one or two
other countries have approached
the administration urging that
such a conference be called.
If the present mad race in arma-
ments is not checked, the world is
going into bankruptcy just as sure
as the rising of tomorrow's sun.
even this country, with it's vast re-
sources, cannot indefinitely afford
to spend a billion dollars year for
preparedness and yet, as the situa-
ton now stands, we are compelled
to hold up our end as a matter
of national protection. Uncle Sam
must take the lead.
Would Investigate Federal Land
System
On Monday of last week I intro
duced a resolution providing for
the appointment of a Congrega-
tional Committee to investigate the
Federal Land Bank system, on the
theory that it has ceased to func-
ton as Congress intended. Since
this resolution was introduced ]
have received scores of letters
from all over the state, and from
adjoining states, calling by atten-
ton to cases that should be invest.
igated. There is no doubt in my