Show I I DISCARDED WAR MA TO TEl BE USED SE FOR FUR MAIL By I International News Service t WASHINGTON Oct 20 Aeroplanes Aeroplanes an and motor trucks for army use which become no longer useful for military I purposes but which are arc not disabled will be utilized by the government g Itis Itis It ItIs Is planned now to deliver mall mail with the cast off of army arm machines This Thill will not mean postoffice de department department department de- de officials that aerial aerial aerial aeri aeri- al postmen will have to use unsafe machines or anything of the sort T The e demand for military flying are so strict that aeroplanes of enormous size I and speed are now superseding all aJI others others others oth oth- ers for work in war var and anti it is the discarded discarded dis dis- I carded and slower types the postal serI service service ser ser- vice desires to acquire I If it the plan is f followed and the concurrence concurrence concurrence con con- currence of congress in the plan is the I only step necessary instead of the double tap on the door while you are areat areat at breakfast the whir of whirling propeller propeller propeller pro pro- peller blades and the rapid exhaust of an engine far overhead will mean that the postman Is Js at the door door or or at the 61 skylight lIght Of course it is not Intended certainly certainly certainly at this time to attempt house- house to-house to deliveries in any such manner manner mannor man man- ner nor except possibly in the thinly settled settled set set- tied frontier settlements such as In parts of Alaska or 01 at points in the West where neighbors live fifteen or twenty miles apart Mail deliveries from city to city cIly will be the main use of the flying postman With the big machines now in use hundreds of pounds of mail can be carried hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of miles Rural delivery is expected to be Improved Improved improved im Im- Im- Im proved very greatly by the working out of the experiment Motor trucks used by the army are of speedy ty type e compa comparatively com com- pa and can carry a great deal of weight More frequent deliveries t to farmers ranchers and and dwellers in the country would be delivered by the adoption of the plan |