Show POSTAL DEfiCIT IS VERY MytH MUtH REDUCED I I W WASHINGTON Dec Dee 12 In In the tho space of or twelve months a a. reduction has been made in the deficit of the postoffice department department de de- de- de of according to the annual report of Postmaster General Frank H. H Hitchcock Just made public While a year ago aso the fiscal records of the postal service disclosed a deficit of i the largest in the history of the country tho the excess pf expenditures over receipts for the tho year ear ended June 30 last amounted to only In commenting upon th this s reduction Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master General Hitchcock claims in his report that the efficiency of the service has hap been heen improved d Fifteen hundred new were established during the last year and new rural Iral deli routes very routes routes' traversing tra al altogether al- al altogether together 2255 miles were Instituted Nearly Nearh new employees whose aggregate aggregate gate salaries are arc more than an annually an- an have been hired The sum of ot was added to the salaries of postoffice e clerks to the salaries of or letter carriers and to the salaries of ot rail railway WilY mail mail- clerks |