INDEBTED TO MR. RAWLEIGH
POST OFFICES BEING USED AS PLUMS, CHARGE Sen. Morris Declarer* Postal System Should-y, Be Removed from Politics (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—The attitude taken by Progressives...
...Tna^ may not be so in this instance...
...Norrls aald: "The Postoffice department it the greatest business institution in the world...
...George W. Norrls with the senate concerning charges of improper political Influence in a. recent post-mastership nomination...
...I have seen the same thing occur so often that I think the statement to correct—that if the curtain were drawn aside and the truth disclosed to the public it would be found in this posH office case that the nomination has been made because of politics, and nothing but politics, and perhaps dirt...
...I ahoJH like to find out what the truth is...
...Morris Declarer* Postal System Should-y, Be Removed from Politics (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—The attitude taken by Progressives toward the poatof-flce department was recently set forth by Sen...
...Your paper shoultb/ii] every home to provide every voferwitlj full and authentic data m relation tJ pending legislation, both state and sal tional.—A...
...which J. R. Howard, the Federal...
...Take the postoffice fiuj^jfi politics...
...C. Anderson...
...The appointment of a eommitjtee was decided upon at a confereiV>e here at which about 12 farm groups the State were represented and before...
...Jobs Ham-i mill...
...e take away its efficiency and make jt^ more expensive to the taxpayers...
...M IOWA GROWERS TO ORGAnize IS PLAN DES MOlSns, tara^A cdottaU^ representing farm organiMtlejj^VV'' J co-operative marketing agenci^prof »Jr wa will be appointed soon to foster the organization of local livestock: co-operatives along the line of the Federal Farm Board's forthcoming program for the livestock industry, according to ¦ an announcement by Gov...
...Both political parties have promised to the country that if they were successful they would apply civil-service rules to the appointment of postmasters and eliminate politics from such appointments...
...SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOW [Taylor, Wis., Jan...
...1 have advocated that idea for a grfat-many years...
...For yearx it has been the idea of progressive-thinking minds in congress and out, of leaders along social and economic lines, and of those who desire to see sound principles applied to government that the postoffice department should be taken out of politics...
...do not give postmastershipa a* a reward for partisan political dirt or for partisan political service In political campaigns...
...Farm Board's organization specialist explained the Board's tentative plaj^for livestock marketing...
...politics, such politics as have to do with dealing out offices to the partisan faithful, with candidates coming, toXHe^ political pie counter and getting the reward for political service...
...I know that nine times out of ten that is the case where unseemly things occur...
...Every high-minded man and woman in the country knows that when we follow along pie-counter lines we degrade the postoffice department...
...7, 1930] Enclosed find check for $1.50 to pay one tcju subscription...
...but if it be so, then we owe it to the President who, we assume, is trying to carry out the real spirit of the rule he has promulgated to put poetoffices under civil service, to let him know how he has been deceived by some crooked politician who has disregarded the good record made by an efficient postmaster, a soldier of his country, and put him out to favor of somebody else...
...If some -political reason has actuated the appointment, it means the detriment of the service, and, after all, in the end the object we all want to attain is good service in the postoffice department...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
