Show INSIDE IN SIDE STUFF L Editors Editor's note During Paul Malion's Mallon's Mal Mal- Ions Ion's vacation Inside Stuff Stull is beIng beIng being be- be ing written by leading Washington WashingS Washing Washing- S ton correspondents S WASHINGTON July 24 When 24 When the postoffice department announced S that as the result of the last fiscal fiscalS S years year's business it There Are No was about Tricks to to the good inS in in- S P. P O. O Profit stead of or being as asS S usual man many m millions mil I 1 lions out of or pocket every everyone one thought there must be some catch in it But there is no trick concealed in it at atall f- f fall all aCC according to to officials Its It's t the theIS e IS consequence they say of no no legerdemain main of bookkeeping but of simple S economical business administration Big savings were made on the airmail air air- I mail contracts and on several other items yet et it was the adding together of af smaller SJ iI S many economies economics which ens' ens en en- s' s the customary deficit to be overcome As A an example of these the cost of or S carrying the mail mall to and from railS railroad rail rail- S road stations to lo is cited S Continued on o Page Two INS INSIDE IDE STUFF I Continued d from Pare Fate One Oue There were contracts for tor this service which should be let Jet by biddins bid bid- ding dins It W was vas l found however that this regulation had not been followed in inthe inthe in the immediate past and of ot the contracts had been allowed to run on being renewed from time to time tune without being submitted for lor competitive compell tive live bidding These were all put up for bids and a saving Ing of ot around 2 was effected In th this small part of the system alone Before boasting too much s about wiping out the deficit however the department might turn its us attention to speeding up the delivery of of malL mail When a letter Jetter even en one carrying a special delivery stamp which leaves Washington around midnight is not delivered to its New York address earlier than noon the next dJ day the postal service is not so hot a 9 J JIn In relation to the San Francisco strike the silence of or Jim Farley Fancy furnished furnished fur fur- furnished a striking contrast to the vociferousness vo vo- c i e r 0 of ot Jim Jim Jhn Parley Farley General Hugh S. S Was Wu Fine Aid Johnson and in into into into to Memory the opinion of observers observers ob ob- ob servers in the capital capital capi capi- tal tal was Immensely more snore useful in bringing reasonableness into the sit Jim didn't have to sa say anything in his ils official capacity he simply stood for or certain thin things s and served as a Mnemonic obelisk to the ship owners They could not look at his towering lowering form and placid face lace without being reminded of a lot of things 0 C The first aid to memory was that he was postmaster general Then they didn't have to think very far back jack without recalling that he had been Instructed by the president to tomake tomake tomake make an investigation of or ocean mall mail contracts contract and determine whether th they were not out of line JIne with fair Lair compensation S C S Various stories put out last week from Tokio Geneva and London about the naval conference and the attitude of Japan Great Britain and he the United States States' with reference to the Pacific were regarded here as efforts to draw this country out and get It to make commitments favorable favorable favor favor- able to the other nations Among the stories was one that Prime Minister MacDonald who ison is ison ison on his way to Canada lor for a holiday I ho hoped d to have an Diplomats mats opportunity to talk Try to Make with Pre President U. U S. S Talk Taik Roosevelt a about b o 0 u uthe t the Pacific naval situation It does docs not seem likely that such a il desire on the part of ot the British British Brit Brit- ish prime minister will receive strong encouragement t from the White House During his last visit here with the British delegation to discuss the sub sub- to be considered at the world economic conference Mr MacDon aid assured the president that the war debt question would not be beup brought up at th the sessions of thc i Nevertheless when the conference con con- ference met Mr MacDonald himself was the c first i t tt t to broach th the debt isaie is- is nr aie have ha eto to be t en n. n in any program of ot world re re- re- re covery This face about did not make makei a 1 i hit with President Roosevelt and it is 15 probable he he does not particular ly iy crave hearing more of Mr MacDonald's MacDonald's Mac Mac- Donalds Donald's palaver i l S S Finding me men to serve on the swarm of boa boards ls and commissions that have been created may be no trouble for lor President Roosevelt but the frequent tossing out of batches of these names causes plenty of confusion and bustling hus bus for lor newspaper men the public and even some of the presidents president's en i Often the names of or appointees have been announced without any other clue to their identity not even their place of residence being given IJ It they happen to be persons not widely widely wide wide- ly known and not in the directories of national scope the newspaper correspondents correspondents cor car respondents arc hard put to it lor for a time to identify them It has happened several times durIng during during dur dur- ing especially b busy sy periods when nominations of unknowns have been en handed out that short of the president no one around even the executive offices could say immediately immedi immedi- who they were vere Later it would appear they were per persons ons well wel known and respected in fn their field Copyright 1934 for lor the Telegram |