Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-21 | Page 2 | Postal Service Shows Great Headway

POSTAL SERVICEi SHOWS GREAT HEADWAY Workers Increase From Few in Franklin's Time to 326,000 at Present RPRINOrnELD, M. Muy 20. In- j I Kit 9X humlful t pOFttMl Dili h in ll' iijHmin HYankUn' Uy. them arn j;'6.uoo killl wirk'-m r Hbnut onhHl( ih govrnmrnt'i civil Mrvire rmploya, ngMT'1! ln ' nr r-icc. r-icc. whl1 Ih annual rvnu drlTtd from thp nnnl from ai.mil t in m in th astma p riort, HuU-rt Work. MMtnuMtr Sn ' I fri. ipld it.. Mid iu Luncheon dub hTH tonlffht, Mr Wt.ik, who ilrm r.h.il (inalal . I aarvlca an in in.u i uf civilisation anil akvtchvd u hitr from lh li- , patih lfurr nf - -Hi Koman I ume to uUpUm iirvti' of the pn'wnl I day, a&M lh American poalal nervlrr I had 1 - i in the hint 1 a It, hut that the nutntwr of rniployei had IncraaaaU by only 9 pT cent "Thin Indlralei that to r.ire fur the ( etra limd nn aver inrrr.inlna tsin'lard it afflelancy of th-- individual rmploya laa well an In I hi- method of adminla- i tratlon and m ha n leal equipment hun to be maintained " j TRIBUTE FOR WORKERS. I The oatnuuiir aeneral paid a high tribute to the Ameruan potal arorher ! aaylng1 that he umiKli red him "a a on , of th riiont important untia In tha rou n try 'a buMinena I lo not balleva , any thrr public or private employ- i ment daniandi such hisrh decree of faithful naaa, loyalty un.i efficiency ua We require uf thoii- Who hamJlts thtJ mall. Aa we turn hark the pava of history, his-tory, wa find ihe romance uf (he malla ' running through the atory of man's prosjn aa," aald the pontinnnter general. "Kor even In Hi" dawn of htatory man j learned to entruat hia ieasaKi to I othera for dallvary, "Aa far back ah the lxth eentury It. I C, ancient Aayrleu and Perelan mon J nriha eon Id loatt of postal alatloni a i tlay'a journej apart. The Incaa were j able to trunnmlt knotted a trine, Riea aacea at the rat.- of bd mih a a day. I "In (:,') a utl hVarice orgunlxed I poatal eyMemn are mniiarativ-iy modern. mod-ern. It wun not untti the thirteenth and fourteenth renturlea that th y . were adoptid. and not until 1133 tint f Kngland had i dally malt to Part. SERVICE OPENS IN 1639. "Turning to America we find that prior to l hlH ih'-r. w i tin '.it iahed p'wiiit aervlce. In that year Magaa chuaatta decreed that i he houae of l : rn irba nka in Jlo: n wan to lie u poatofflre fur racelpt and dt.-patrh of nhipa mall. "Tha flrat regular mall wna ettah-llahed ettah-llahed in the culonlen between Now York and Boaton In 1 S72 and offered a monthly aervlce. Until Frank I in. In 1737. waa appointed pout ma at er of ! I'hlladelphla. the ti received little financial return from the colonial poatal poat-al aervlca. 'The number of poxtofflcee ln 1776 wan "H. puittfig was hitfh and tho average aver-age day' progreaa of a letter was o me thing between thirty and fifty mile When t he t 'onnt itutlon waa adopted In 1 Tad. however, exrlualve control of poaiofflcea waa placed upon 1 the federal government .' The pntmaat'r (eneral aald It wna ' not generally known that Abraham Lincoln'! flrt public office waa that of p itianter. In 1SSS, under the .luck-aon .luck-aon adminlntrHtion at Sew 8a. I em, 111. "During Lincoln's term n- prenldent," the poaUnaater fenera) rontlnuea, "two great poatal advance were lntttuted. the intri'durtlnn of the money order c . n and a convention wnh f-ireign rounirle to make arrangementi rr a more temat ic and equitable handling hand-ling of foreign mall."