Show RURAL FREE DELIVERY Business to Be Conducted for the S Greatest Good for tho Greatest Great-est Number Washington I July liTIw Poatofflco department de-partment today made public thai following There seems to bo 1 n wide misunderstanding misunderstand-ing us to the pnjsent altitude of the do pnrtmont regarding rural free delivery Tho statements have been published quite Rcn erully particularly In the r < M Hint mural routes that do not bundle COW pieces of mall per month and supply 100 families are to bo discontinued It Is not the purpose pur-pose of the department to disturb routes already established unions they are manifestly mani-festly unnecessary There ore now on fllo in tho department depart-ment petitions for more routes that will supply more than 100 families than can be Ctrtnbllalied with the present appropriation appropria-tion This being the case tho department does not feel It right equable or wise to establish u onto i supplying less than 100 families to tho exclusion oC routes that will supnly more lIwn 100 families the grcnkbt good Lo tio greatest number being be-ing tho fundmental principle upon which rural froo dullvtity I Is being CMtublluhcd As lone la nil of tht routes that am asked for can not bo established because of the luck of sufficient money tile route that will supply tho greater number of families should certainly I have preference prefer-ence |