Show I r I Rain Ram or Shine J 4 j jWALLACE WALLACE ALLACE MORRIS ORRIS pride pride of the postoffice I vv i at Washington D. D C. C has been a letter carrier since 1879 At 63 he daily climbs 2400 steps and walks seventeen miles carrying a fifty- fifty pound d pouch of mail How many of you other I elderly men men could do that Few Few of us I 1 appreciate that bearer of joys joys' and sorrows the sorrows the postman n. n Rain pr or shine he is on j the e job With With- 2 5 5 k 5 5 t c S I out him f families i ies would drift apart pa t friends would become forgotten when separated an and business would slow down to a snails snail's pace Next to the tramp bf of a returning victorious army or the slow and cautious thud of circus parade elephants there Is no footstep as alluring as the The whole world awaits his coming eager coming eager lovers anxious mothers hopeful business men worried cornered conspirators con con- despairing failures For the postman tells your fate better than gypsy palmists or ouija boards r S Wise old Ben Franklin in 1775 negotiated the transfer of the posto postoffice fice from private to government ownership It was wa not until 1840 that Sir Rowland Hill Englishman invented the postage stamp a adopted opted seyen seven years later by the United States Free mail delivery and collections from letterboxes letter letterboxes letterboxes boxes are commonplace yet they originated within with with- in the memdry of many now living They were originated and put into operation in 1863 by Joseph William Briggs then a window delivery clerk i in the postoffice of Cleveland O. O A bronze memorial to him will wilt be placed in in inthe the Cleveland postoffice by the Ohio Society of New York Honor him as one of the unknown many who g gave ve us our daily dally comforts S Considerable progress has been made since January 22 1673 when Americas America's first mail carrier carrier car car- rier ncr left New York for Boston with a single letter making the trip in the record time of two weeks To grasp that progress also the intricacy of our oui form of civilization remember that the American L postoffice I handles letters a year S |