The Loop City Northwestern
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LOUP CITY. - - NEBRASKA
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paragraphs that pertain to
MANY SUBJECTS.
USE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What x Transpiring
is Various Sections of Our Own
and Foregn Countries.
Th» rtranl bill pgu.-cd tie hou*e
by ft l«Kr ITt to 127.
Ben*.::* of Ihrlftftfttf. it 1»
mm*£ *Ui be tie neat one under Are.
K'-prcsralsi . e Peter* introduced ft
Ml u» create ft banal of tariff stalls'
Cusxrro eras in truiac on \Vft»h
Itfo*» lurtndar. though but little
Work »u* dose.
A biunbir report >w wade 0:1 the
otrciee* t> « rrapfc treaty of the Sen
ate Foreijta e’a.am* cunimlJtfe.
XotaibftiMJ* of Chancellor Uablon
Pitnej of Nets Jersey a* supreme
court justice was submitted by Presi
dent Taft
la the bouse a resolution * as last
ed neuirtw tnrttmrjr of »»r to *ub
m-t all taper> t. use of Majtr t«n
anl A.nsnorrh
A resole* 10a Sas adopted in the Sen
ate aotborUias the A*rtruliural de
partment to part* ipate in the nation
al com exposition. Columbia 8. C.
Senator Met'umber introduced con
current nealuUte deciannj? It the
•et.se of eoacres* that the wool sche
doie shot.Id he retard immediately.
Representative Ferris introduced a
trill authorizing the president to pre
pare for withdrawal of the sovereign
tty at l mted State* from the Philip
pine*
f< ustnr MtCaaier explain'd to
the interstate commerce commission
hi* proposed federal »«rorp®e»tir* act
os a sort of comsti union for corpota
tknmn
Representative Hohson of Alab. nia.
Introducsd a resoiutkm for a bouse
tspiuiry Hrynsra'ttiu Hay*
charge that he had attached the mili
tar. »!._-» committee .n an improper
Marne.
The president *ran*ni!tted to th#
senate the postmaster nenersl * an
nual report MiosHint govern nient
MsmUa of tele graphs, which t.ie
iwndint said he did not favor The
pt - t.: iia*? bu 1 matter commis
i,« • report recommend las increase
of >e ad class rate to 2 cent*, which
the president approved. tu seat to
Uo- senate
Control.
The hottuta* pocuot u! Floyd. I*~
•tafiwd
TXe r*-»a*r -• making ready to take
up hu»e '»ri# Mila.
Aacru at i)uakata are competing
for a Inn Iona ot tr'voo.i- o.
TU ABMatna ntUonwl K-d Trosa
nortety orot $X'*'** more to i'bina.
IcfarMUA u to the eutwsre of a
•seller truat la asked of tie attorney
•mrrai
Premdv&t TaSf declare* tie time
in» not ivm for tita country to tit
teumta-.-al a* tie '-*j»et.t» of an ade
%ji'e tr>ai establishment.
A lull (tiatlu American citizen
*tip it citizen* of Porto Rico and to
certain native* permanently rriHI»|
at the Itiand was fmraraMj reported
to the boa*.
Melt tile K fttose. genera! manager
of thr tret* it ted pres*. fill address
lt» K state editorial a*eoci
■smt at .ta annual meeting at the
•late untreretty in April.
At leiwaawtb. Ku. H. C. IjOtan,
• luaiut at the state penitentiary,
ran unharmed through a hail of bul
tet* m an attemp* to Mcnge. only to
he recaptured by an unarmed guard
after fee had retched cover.
The ) ■ i if if t nr of the Florida
ev«egladM charge* and the expendi
ture* of the agricultural department
ta the reclamation of those lands
rue to an abrupt halt when the
trrtwr mieetigatlng coamitlw decid
ed to detot more rtenriy the scope or
the ttytlry
A *ew grand Jury wa* sworn in at
Chicago in concee iion with the pack
xr».
fio-rretary Ftrmsoo. of the war de
will make a spoorh before
the Taft Hat* ia Cmirxgo on the night
of March t
Cap*- A- J JSulifthfr. commander
of (hr coal-derate btlflHiiip Xiobe
dome tb* civil oar, died at Gaines
aflW. Tex.
(lr)«caln from sixteen toothm
•Kate* tret at Baltimore to consider
pruUrot relating to the agricultural
development and increase of imml
innas for the south.
President Madera of Mexico asked
for the suspension of the freedom of
the press
Gifford Plarhot wilhdraes his sup
port from Senator 1-aKcllell* and an
•assert that be sill support Colonel
Hr its-T* for the presidency.
A senous diplomatic ait nation has
arisea hetweeu the Catted States and
t'otumbia over the contemplated trip
at Secret art Knox.
Lady G*<srhen. the Wife of Air Ed
vard Goscben. British ambassador at
Merita, died la Austria Lady Goachen
was a daughter of Darius Clarke of
Philadelphia.
The Western detail Lumbermen's
aaooriatkm at Seattle vent on record
mk opposed to the parcels past.
State Senator A. V. Praudfoot of
fedianota la. author-zed tbo state
aseei that bo sill *eek the repuUlicak
Mir*—for am error.
Mrs Lacy D. Fisk, widow of James
Phk. Jr- who was shot more than
fort) years aso ia New York by Ed
vard S Stokes as the climax of a
hitler rivalry between tbo two men
gar tbo stages of the famous beauty,
-j«*te Mansfield, died la South
Im -1 EM was sereaty six years of
Congressman Dan Stephens of Ne
braska declares himself for Champ
Clark.
In an explosion and panic in a mov
ing picture show at Albrightsville,
Preston county. W. Va., twenty-nine
persons weretnjured.
Houston. Texas, had a conflagration
entailing a loss of several millions.
A higher duty is proposed for silk
stockings to make up the sugar de
Beit.
Provisions for a parcels post are
included in the postoffic appropria
tion bill.
The prosecution is ready to pro
ceed any day in the trial of alleged
dynamiters.
The Presbyterians are planning to
raise $1 •.<'00.000 for the support of
aged clergymen.
Kuhn. Loeb Co., announced the pur- ,
chase of $10,000,000 of 5 per cent
City of Tokio bonds.
The Iowa retail hardware dealers
aseex-iation adjourned after re-electing
all the old officers.
The Italian chamber of deputies
passed a bill for the annexation of
Tripoli by Italy by a vote of 431 to 3S.
Li* utenant Du Corneau was kille d
at Pau, France. In an aeroplane acci
dent.
Mrs. Mary” E Arbuckle, wife of
James Arbuckle, Spanish consul at
St. Louis, is dead in that city.
Grand jury indictments were re
turned at Chicago against a number
of railroads charged with rebating.
Viscouirt Phinda. the new Japanese
ambas.-ador to Washington, made his
first caH at the state department.
Newman Erb. financial associate of
the late Edwin Hawley, was elected
a director of the Fere Marquette rail
road.
A bill that would create a bureau of
tariff statistics as a substitute for the
present tarifT board was introduced
by Representative Peters, democrat
of Massachuetts.
A bill authorizing the president to
prepare for withdrawal cf sovereignty
of the Cnited States from the Philip
pines was introduced by Representa
tive Ferris of Oklahoma.
Brigadier General William P. Hall
automatically assumed the office of
adjutant general upon the retirement
of General Ainsworth, in the opinion
of officers of that department.
Mrs Clara Murray was acquitted at
?t_ Louis of a charge of murdering her
husband. She shot him with a rifle
last Oct- >t r. after, according to her
testimony, he had kicked her.
The coroner’s jury investigating the
death of John .1. Richkels ar.-d his 14
y ear-old ste daughter, near To;>eka,
Kan-a.*. brought in a verdict that the
man murdered the girl by shooting i
- • -> death, and then killed him~> It.
Pres id < nt Taft told Mayor Fitzger
ald fo Boston that he would pin a
shamrock to the lapel of his coat. I
look around for a good shiilalah and
ride at the head of the St. Patrick's
day and "evacuation day" parade,
when he visits Boston Monday, March
tue mu.
A cablegram received at the
American school of osteopathy telling ^
of the death in Dundee. Scotland, of
Dr. William Smith, who received the
tirst diploma in osteopath; and who
was for n*-»rly twenty years instruct- .
or in anatomy and surgery at Kirks
ville. Mo.
The purpose of the majority of the
house wavs and means committee to
abolish the tariff board and substi
tute for it another kind of a commis
n wa-s manifested by the introduc
tion of a bill for a revenue board by
Representative A M. Palmer, of Penn
sylvania.
liouis P luxhner. for three years
editor of the Wisconsin Alumni Maga
zine. and secretary of the association
of cosmopolitan clubs, has been ap
lioir.ted to assume charge of the de
pa’tmeet to assume charge of the de
parunent for colleges and universities
of the world's peace foundation.
Jcsenh Baker. 77 years of age whe
first discovered lead ore in Kansas,
died at Joplin. Mo. He came to Jop
lin in 1883 in the early mining days
Believing ore abounded across the
state line, he went to Galena. Kas.
• wro years later and found lead in the
first shaft sunk.
Adjutant General Maloney of Ten
nessee urged before the house mill!
tary affairs committee a bill for gov
ernment acceptance of 5.000 acres ol
land neer Tullahoma. Tonn.. donated
for maneuver camps for troops of Ten
n«ssee. Kentucky. Mississippi, Alaba
mi. Georgia. Florida and Carolina.
Representative Hobson of Alabamt
precipitated a lively debate in the
ouse when be introduced a resolu
•ion providing for an investigation o!
■he attack on him by Representative
Hay. who charged him with having
acted in a "cowardly manner,” by in
sertlng in the records remarks derog
atory to Hay. which had not beer
made before the house.
Persona’.
An Investigation of the election oi
S--ca!or Dupont may be undertaken.
Bryan, at Denver, declared he coulc
not be drawn into the presidential
race.
The republics of Paraguay and Ar
gentine sign a tentative treaty set
tling differences.
There is some restlessness in the
.-caste over delay in disposing of the
Stepheneon and Lorimer cases.
papers dealing with the record oi
Payma-ter Kay were found and turn
ed over to the house committee.
Mr. Roosevelt accepts, in his Co
’umb.is Breech, the machinery of un
limited democracy now being worked
out In a number of states.
California progiessives have aban
doned I a Follette and taken up the
cause of Colonel Roosevelt.
President Taft sent to the senate
the name of Mahlon Pitney to be asso
ciate Justice of the supreme court.
Secretary Knox will not visit Co
lombia. unless given an invitation.
Former Got. Folk of Missouri has
dropped out of the presidential race.
Oklahoma sent a spilt delegation to
the Baltimore convention equally di
vided between Wilson and Clark.
Chancellor Pitney of New Jersey is
said to be President Taft’s latest fa
vorite for the supreme bench va
cancy.
Bitter personal attacks on Repre
I tentative Hobson were made by Rep
resentative Hay and Representative
Fitzgerald for his criticism for army
reorganization scheme.
ELKS GREET ELKS
RAILROAD GETS BENEFIT OF
TOUCHING SERMON.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Hero and There
That is of Interect to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Alliance—A carload of elk went I
through Alliance Saturday morning
on the way from the Jackson Hole
country to the Yellowstone national j
park. An amusing feature of this was
that an operator at Crawford under
stood that there was a special car of
Elks going west on the train. He
telephoned the secretary of the Elks
club at that place, and not to be out
done in politeness, the Elks' club
turned out en masse with their brass
band, to do honor to their brothers in
transit.
Sermon Touched His Heart.*
Beatrice—The Burlington railroad
is the richer by $30 because of a ser
mon preached Sunday night at the
tabernacle by Evangelist Lowry. The
subject of the sermon was “Covered
Sin, ’ and the speaker declared it the
duty ol all Christians to settle for all
past debts, naming the common cus
tom of beating the railroads out of
fares whenever possible. A citizen of
Beatrice sent the Burlington the sum
of $30, saying he had one time beaten
the road out of that amount iu car
fare.
Tree Broke Hi* Leg.
Pickerell—Phillip Gr&S. a farmer
living near here, received a broken
leg when a tree which he had
choppeu down rebounded atter falling.
siriKing Mr. Graff in such a way as to
break the bone in the right leg in two
places. Mr. Graff is a pioneer resi
dent of Gage county.
Doane's Fortieth Anniversary.
Crete—Preparations are being made
by Doaue college to celebrate its forti
eth anniversary in connection with
the commencement exercises in June.
Doane was founded in 1S73. four years
after Nebraska became a state, so that
the history of both is coincident in
many ways.
Charter Day at University.
Lincoln—The annual charter day
Indooi athletic meet was held Thurs
day afternoon in the university gym
nasium as a part of the day's celebra
tion of the granting of the university
charter by the state legislature in
1869.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE.
Governor Aldrich says the discus
sion of himself as a candidate for vice
president in connection with the
Roosevelt candidacy is premature;
that this position seeks the man and
not the man the position
Secretary Mellor of the state board
of agriculture has gone to Chicago to
attend a meeting of the American
Trotting association. He will repre
sent the Nebraska state fair board and
several county fairs of Nebraska.
Commissioners Wiunett and Hall of
the state railway commission have
gone to South Omaha to examine into
the merits of a complaint made by
R. \V. Ralston of Uexington to the
effect that the Union Stock Yards
company exercises gross discrimina
tion against live stock shippers from
out in the state.
The university agricultural depart
ment lias issued a bulletin on the ger
mination test for seed corn by T. A.
Kiesselbach of the department of
agronomy. A comprehensive discus
sion of the matter is taken up in the
bulletin and the authorities have an
nouncfd that copies are available for
those who wish to review the matter
which it contains.
The will of the late Chancellor
Emeritus Huntington of Wesleyan
university has been filed for probate.
One thousand dollars is left as a per
manent endowment fund for the uni
versity, $1,000 for the fund for the
care of superannuated ministers,
$1,000 to his son Thomas. $5,000 to
his sen Horace, $8,000 to his daughter
Frances, and the balance of the prop
erty to his widow.
There were 21,000 more horses on
the f»rms and ranges of Nebraska on
January 1. 1912. than one year before,
according to figures just given out by
the department of agriculture. The
number, however, 1.059,000. were only
worth *96,269,000, compared to 1.038.
000 horses, which were worth SI 10,
028,000 January 1, 1911. The average
value of the horses in the state was
191 on the first of last month, while
two years ago on the same day the
average value was *108.
The board of public lands and build
ings has formally awarded a contract
for erecting a building at the state
hospital for indigent consumptives at
Kearney. The board made several
changes in the original plans. The
new building will cost when com
pleted in the neighborhood of $10,200.
Sptakers for the seed corn specials
which will tour the state during the
week of February 26 have been an
nounced by Prof. C. W. Pugsley of
the Nebraska experiment station, who
has charge of manning ar>d equipping
the trains.
An expenditure not exceeding *29.
000 to erect one section of the pro
posed new machinery hall on the state
fair grounds has been authorized by
the state board of agriculture. Plans
for this edifice will soon be obtained
and the work will start in the spring
or early summer. The size of the first
section is to be 112 by 468 feet if the
appropriation will pay for one of
those dimensions. The whole build
ing, when completed, is expected to
be more than 700 feet long and 400
feet wide. It will be located oc the
east side of the fair grounda.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Sutton is talking of city postal de
livery.
Hastings will bold the 1912 fall fes
tival October 7 to 12.
The annual Fremont Y. M. C. A
athletic meet will be held March 8.
DeVVltt will have a municipal elec
trie light plant in the near future.
Pender baseball fans are making
arrangements for an interesting sea
son.
Farmers in Thoyer county have
plentj- of 1910 corn from which te
select seed.
Frank Rogers, who was caught in a
corn sheller at Seward and badly man
gled. died as the result.
The new high school building at
Boelus was dedicated Friday. An all
day's program was given.
Lyons has fourteen men who are
over SO years old. and most of them
saw Halley's comet twice.
A total of 200,000 bushels of wheat
was marketed at the elevators at Pal
mer during the year of 1911.
Arrangements are being completed
for holding a farmers' institute at
Bancroft on February 21 and 22.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the opera house and several stores at
Dlller, with a loss of nearly $50,000.
A new gasoline lighting system has
been placed in the Methodist church
at Howe and the old lights discarded.
After waiting for many years, the
efforts of the DeWitt people are to be
rewarded with a new Burlington sta-.
tion.
Where Indians on the reservation
procure their liquor is a question that
is puzzling the authorities of Dakota
City.
Two tramps broke into Maple Grove
school house, soutti of York. Friday
night, were arrested and fined $60
each.
O. E. Elder of North Platte has de
clined to run as a candidate for presi
dential elector on the I^aFollette
ticket.
One hundred and forty hunters’ and
fishers' licenses haw been issued by
the Adams county clerk since the first
of the year.
According to statistics recently
given out by the Rock island. Deshler
is the sixth town in Nebraska in point
of business.
Howe is declared by railroad men
to be the busiest shipping point for
its size of any town between Kansas
City and Omaha.
Two red foxes were bagged on Fre
mont Island in the Platte river by six
young farmers from Saunders county
who were out on a wolf hunt.
Arrangements are about completed
for the second annual May festival to
be held at Peru. May 22, on the day
previous to. commencement day.
M. M. Warner of Lyons has a war
relic in the way of a cannon ball
which was fired from Fort Donelson
by the confederates fifty years ago.
Some valuable horses have been lost
; in the neighborhood of Brownville. it
is thought from eating cornstalks
| which had not matured when the hard
j irost came.
i Dr. Emma Robbins, who left Hast
^ ings in November to serve as a mis
sionary to the Chinese, writes that
she has been delayed in Shanghai
awaiting the restoration of peace.
Noah Lyons of I’nadilla. while cut
ting hedge cut a gash in the back ot
his head with his ax. severing an
artery. He was in a serious condition
for a time from the loss of blood, but
is recovering.
Oakland business men are making
a strong campaign to interest farmers
in testing seed corn. A personal let
ter is being sent out to every man in
Oakland's trade territory advising
them to test their seed corn.
Members of Trinity Lutheran church
at Beatrice are raising funds for the
- installation of a pipe organ. Andrew
: Carnegie has notified the congrega
i tion that if it would raise $500 he
I wou. J donate a like amount.
As a penalty for selling vegetables
and apples for his partner and then
forgetting to refund the money. "Tod”
Deen. a familiar character of the
streets of Fairbury. is serving a thirty
day sentence in the county jail.
A peculiar feature of the storm that
visited York recently was that hun
dreds of birds were found dead the
next morning. As the snow was very
wet, it is thought the birds were
weighted down and chilled to death.
The West Point camp of the Cuming
county Deutsches Landwehr Verein,
an organization of a semi-military
character composed of veterans of the
Franco-Prussian war, has a member
ship of nearly HW*. is steadily growing,
and is in a %>urishing financial con
dition.
An indoor track meet will be held
; by the Young Men's Christian associa
| tion at Fremont during the first week
‘ in March. The list of events will ln
j elude pole vault, shot put, twenty-yard
j dash, potato race, broad jump and high
Tilt; Lexington musioale rendered an
i attractive comic opera entitled '‘The
Puritans" to a crowded audience in
the opera house Thursday evening.
The fifty-seven characters were
dressed in full costumes especially
procured for the occasion.
A rumor to the effect that one or
' more cases of smallpox had been re
ported at Kenesaw is denied by Ken
esaw physicians.
Members of the Bible study com
mittees of the Fremont Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement had a ban
quet at the Y. M. C. A. Monday even
| ing and later listened to after-dinner
| talks on biblical topics.
A curfew petition providing that
I children under 14 years of age be
j kept off the streets after 9 o’clock at
night unaccompanied by a parent.,
parents or guardian, has been pre
sented to the York city council.
The epidemic of hog cholera that
prevailed in Jefferson county last fall
which destroyed so many fine herds
of hogs, is almost extinct. The dis
ease prevailed in the early winter and
many farmers in the vicinity of Fair
bury lost every hog they had.
The board of trustees of the new
Odd Fellows’ home in York have
planned to put in walks, lay out the
grounds for the planting of trees and
shrubbery, put in driveways on the
approach to the building and many
other improvements to add to the
beauty of the building and its aur
rourdinga. ^
POSTAL SERVICE
SHOWS A PROFIT
First Time in History, According
to Report of Cabinet
Officer.
RAISE IN RATES IS FAVORED
President Concurs in Recommenda
tion of Commission on Second
Class Mail Matter—Again Sug
gests Adoption of Parcel
Post System.
Washington, Feb. 22.—For the first
time in the history of the postal serv
ice that department of the government
showed a profit for the fiscal year
ending Jane 30, 1911, according to the
annual report of Postmaster General
Hitchcock transmitted to congress to
day. Accompanying the document
was the report of the commission on
second-class mail matter appointed by
joint resolution of congress on March
4 of last year and a brief message of
the president, in which he called at
tention to the principal features of the
two reports.
Would Increase Second-Class Rates.
The report of the commission on
second-class mail matter makes the
following recommendations:
1. The rate of 2 cents a pound on
copies mailed by publishers to sub
scribers, to news agents, and as sam
ple copies, and by news agents to their
subscribers or to other news agents.
2. The rate of 1 cent for each 4
ounces for copies mailed by other
than publishers and news agents; that
is, the present transient rate.
3. The present free-in-county priv
ilege retained, but not extended.
The commission also recommended
that the cent-a-copy rate for newspa
pers other than weeklies and for pe
riodicals not exceeding 2 ounces in
weight, and the 2-cent-a-copy rate for
periodicals exceeding 2 ounces in
w-eight, when mailed at a city letter
carrier office for local delivery, be
abolished.
As to the effect and adequacy of the
proposed increase of 1 cent a pound
in postage the commission says:
“Such an increase will not, in the
opinion of the commission, bring dis
tress upon the publishers of newspa
pers and periodicals, or seriously in
terfere* with the dissemination of use
ful news or Information. A reasonable
time should be allowed, after the rate
is fixed, before it is put into effect.
While the new rate will be very far
from compensating the government
for the carriage and handling of sec
ond-class matter, it will to some ex
tent relieve the existing burden and
result in a more equltaole adjustment
of rates.”
Both the president and the postmas
ter general concur In the recommenda
tions and regarding the proposed in
crease in newspaper postage the presi
dent says; 'The proposed increase ot
1 cent a pound In the second-class
postage rate, I believe, to be most
reasonable, and if sufficient time is al
lowed before the change goes into ef
fect it should work little serious in
jury to the business of the periodical
publishers, while equalizing, at least
in a measure, the burdens of postal
taxation."
Rates Should Be More Equal.
Commenting further cn the pro
posed increase, the president says:
"The postal service is now, for the
first time in years, operated upon a
self-sustaining basis, and in my Judg
ment this is a wise policy; but it
should not be carried out at the ex
pense of certain classes of mail mat
ter that pay revenue largely in ex
cess of their cost, it is not just that
some classes of mail should be ex
orbitantly taxed to meet a deficiency
caused by other classes, the revenue
from which is much below their cost
of handling and carriage. Where such
inequalities exist they should be re
moved as early as practicable. The
business enterprises of the publishers
of periodicals, however, have been
built up on the basis of the present
second-class rate, and therefore it
would be manifestly unfair to put into
immediate effect a large increase in
postage. That newspapers and maga
zines have been potent agencies for
the dissemination of public intelli
gence and have consequently borne a
worthy part In the development of the
country all must admit; but it is like
wise true that the original purpose of
congress in providing for them a sub
vention by way of nominal postal
charges in consideration of their
value as mediums of public informa
tion ought not to prevent an increase,
because they are now not only educa
tional but highly profitable. There is
no warrant for the great disparity be
tween existing postage rates on pe
riodicals and the cost of the service
the government performs for them.
The aggregate postal revenues for the
fiscal year 1911 were $237,879,823.60,
derived mainly from the postage col
lected on the four classes of mall
matter. It is carefully estimated by
the postofflce department that the
revenue derived from mail matter of
the first class is approximately one
and one-half times the cost of han
dling and carriage: that the returns
from third aDd fourth class matter are
slightly In excess of their cost of
handling and carriage: and that while
second-class matter embraces over 65
per cent, of the entire weight of all
the mail carried, it, neverthelesss,
yields little more than 5 per cent, or
the postal revenues.” *
The commission on second-class
mail matter consisted of Hon. Charles
E. Hughes, associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States;
President A. Lawrence Lowell of Har
vard University, and Mr. Harry A.
Wheeler, president of the Association
of Commerce of the city of Chicago.
In commenting on their findings the
president says;
"The report (iiscloses a most ex
haustive and critical inquiry into the
subject of second-class mail matter
after adequate notice to all the par
ties in interest. Extensive hearings
were held by the commission, at which
the Postmaster General and the Sec
ond and Third Assistant Postmasters
General appeared and submitted for
mal statements presenting the various
contentions of the Post Office depart
ment, together with all the relevant
official data and evidence relating to
the cost of handling and transporting
second-class mail matter. Certain of
the leading magazines were represent
ed by counsel, while various other pub
lications appeared by representatives.
“The findings of the commission
confirm the view that the cost of
handling and transporting second
class mail matter is greatly in excess
of the postage paid, and that an in
crease in the rate is not only justified
by the facts, but is desirable."
Cost Inquired Into.
“The commission reports that the
evidence submitted for its considera
tion is sufficient to warrant a finding
of the approximate cost of handling '
and transporting the several classes
of second-class mail known as paid
at-the-pound-rate, free-in-county, and !
I transient matter, in so far as relates
to the services of transportation, post- j
office cars, railway distribution, rural |
delivery, and certain other items of
cost, but that it is without adequate
data to determine the cost of the gen
eral post-office service and also what
portion of the cost of certain other
aggregate services is properly assign
able to second-class mail matter. It
finds that in the fiscal year 1908, the
period for which the statistics for the
Post Office Department were com
piled, the cost of handling and trans
porting second-class mail, in the items
of transportation, post-office cars, rail- |
way distribution, rural delivery, and
certain miscellaneous charges, was ap
proximately 6 cents a pound for paid
, at-the-pound-rate matter, and for free
! in-county and transient matter each
■ approximately 5 cents a pound, and
that upon this basis, as modified by
subsequent reductions in the cost of
railroad transportation, the cost of
paid-at-the-pound-rate matter, for the
services mentioned, is now approxi
mately 6*4 cents a pound, while the
cost of free-in-county and transient
matter remains as formerly, namely,
each at approximately 5 cents a
pound.
The commission suggests that the j
department "maintain an adequate |
cost system, so that the effect of the j
new rates may be closely observed
and a proper basis may be secured
for the consideration of any future
proposals.”
President Taft again concurs in the
recommendation of the Postmaster
General for the adoption of a parcel
post system, suggesting the inaugura
tion of such a service on rural routes
and in the city delivery service first.
Ownership of Telegraph Opposed.
Hitchcock's recommendation for
government ownership of the tele
graph lines under the supervision of
the postal service is not approved of
by the president. Regarding this he
says:
"There is only one recommendation
in which 1 can not agree—that is one
which recommends that the telegraph
lines in the United States should be
made a part of the postal system and
operated in conjunction with the mail
system. This presents a question of
government ownership of public utili
ties which are now being conducted by
private enterprise under franchises
from the government. I believe that
the true principle is that private en
terprise should be permitted to carry
on such public utilities under due regu
lation as to rates by proper authority
rather than that the government
should itself conduct them. This prin
ciple I favor because I do not think it
in accordance with the best public pol
icy thus greatly to increase the body
of public servants. Of course. If it
could be shown that telegraph service
could be furnished to the public at a
less price than it is now furnished to
the public by telegraph companies,
and with equal efficiency, the argu
ment might be a strong one in favor
of the adoption of the proposition. But
I am r.ot satisfied from any evidence
that if these properties were taken
over by the government they could be
j managed any more economically or
any more efficiently or that this would
enable the government to furnish serv
ice at any smaller rate than the pub
lic are now required to pay by private
companies.
The report of the Postmaster Gen
eral Is full of statements of changes
in the organization and methods of the
postal service made since the last an
nual report, and of tentative drafts of
legislation embodying certain recom
mendations of the department which
need legislation to carry them out It
also calls attention to the fact that
the revenues for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1911, amounted to $237,879,
£23.60 and that the expenditures
amounted to $237,660,705.48, making a
surplus of $219,118.12.
The report shows that the postal
savings system was begun experimen
tally in January, 1911, and that it has
now been extended so as to Include
7,500 presidential post offices, which
includes practically all of the post
offices of that class. Preparations are
also being made to establish the sys
tem at about 40.000 fourth-class offices.
The deposits in 11 months have reach
ed a total of $11,000,000, distributed
among 2,710 national and state banks.
Names From Dickens’ Characters.
Although Dickens is commemorated
In street names abroad there is no
street named after him in London.
But there is a near approach to it
In Copperfleld road. Stepney, not far
from the People's Palace, and to prove
that this was Inspired by “David Cop
perfleld,” we find a Dora street «ud an
Agnes street in close proximity.
Petroleum Known to Egyptians.
Ages before the Roman empire pe
troleum was used by the Egypt! an a
Less Cost and Trouble.
The average man is more ready to
lend his ears to a bard luck story than
to lend a hand.
But Less Valuable In Life.
It is much more easy to win ap
plause by skill, in games than by abil
ity in more valuable pursuits.
Woman's Best Work.
As a rule women’s best work Is
done by Influencing man. and not by
competing with him.
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