Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-03-13
Arthur
Says
By-Billy Arthur

So Postmaster General Sum-
merfield wants to do away with
the three-ccnt stamp. The two
cent stamp has not been long
gone. Neither has the penny
postal card. But the Big Mail
Man in Washington now says IL
ought to cost five cents to Sehd
a first class letter, because
there's too much mail these
days.
Mr.. Summerfield hasn't
chc> ked my box, or he would
know how little first class neil
/ get. haven't seen any real
good mail in months. All of II
nails from some distant poin',
telling me how soon I'm goinS
to die unless l buy a bottle NJ
the pills it's hawking, or how
l can buy magazine thatll
advise me how to save money
on offers / get through the
mails.
It's a shame that some folks
have learned how to write.
back in the days of illiteracy,
people didn't know how to
write all those third class let
tiers that now burden the mail
man.
The poStman is so busy now
that he doesn't have time -
run errapdS in town for you as
he used to. Remember in the
good old days how he'd gladly
buy spool of thread or a plo:y
point and bring it to you when
he delivered the mail the neg:
time?
II Mr.. Sommerfield wants to
handle less mail at a greater
profit-or a lower postal de-
ficit - let him reinstate an
ante-bellum polly: all letters
go postpaid instead of prepaid
And if the addreSSce refuses a
letter, for the sender to pay
double the postage.
Such a policy has advantage.
A man will think twiie befo:e
he ACCEPTS a letter. He'll look
at the poStmark and wonder
who in Oshkosh. Wis, knows
him. No kin live up there; 50
back the letter goeS-and TIE
sender pays six cents. Eventu-
ally there'll be less mail NOV
ing around, but what moves
will be good and acceptable.
Mr.. Symmetrical probably
doesn't know what post office
problems are. Had he lived IN
1917, he would have received
the quarterly report of Posi-
master lobe Jenkins OF Boom
er, n. c. lobe was the first
postmaster there. and he strict
ly followed orders that one OF
his duties was a quarterly re-
port. This was his:
Happy Top, n. c.
mister woodcnrollcr wilson.
president of the bcni.cj
states OF ameriky
dear sur
"bein required by the in
struckShunS of the post offi,2
department 10 report gu rtlf.
now fulfill that plcasin duty
by reportin as follows. we hav
had a good decl of rain in this
community here of late and the
rodeS air simply awful. the
fellerS what haul croSS-tics AMI
tan bark cant take morcn half
a load. ruffness is getting
mighty skace in these parts
and / don't kno how the farm
ers are goin to feed their stock
till grass comes. Muny is pretty
skace too in spite Of all your
prosperity, an everything is
high except the morals of the
community. the helth OF the
people is only tolerable, mea-
sles and chicken pox have
broke out about two miles from
here. A big meetin has been
going on at Hallyloo Holler for
the past week, and many old
hardened sinners have had an
other coat Of whatewash put
on their characters, miss nancy
smith, nCcr nabor, had twins
day before yesterday, one of
them is pore sCrawny thing
and won't live half its day.
miss sally scdlick got a postl;
card from that no account boz
friend luther day. he scd hc
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