| Show f— ' r — 1 t yv jy f w sj uf Ut I?!!' y tf’H t T " i The Balt M t By George Clark The Neighbor I T 4 Bandar May 19 1937 Tribirbe WASHINGTON May 18 (UP) —Postmaster General Arthur E Summerfield whose head la bloody but unbowed in a battle with Congress over Increasing postal rates fired another salvo Saturday His department Issued a history of fluctuating rates on UJS postage since George Washington’s Day and the various mailing and delivery methods used down through the years IN CONCLUSION Summer-fielsaid today’s rates fall to cover postal costs and that even if first class rates are raised one cent they will still be “the or more It other revision enacted This time it was live cents for single consist of four pages was called a packet d "In 1799 Congress revised postal rates again This time the rate for tingle letters traveling not more than 40 miles was eight cents with double triple letter and packet rates In proportion The rate for single letters traveling over 500 miles was 23 cents 'In 1813 Congress approved rates double those established In 1799 but In 1816 these increases were repealed "NOT UNTIL 1845 was an H3 - world’s biggest bargain" His review of the past says at the outset that the postage rate “Is in the news again Just as it has been periodically lor 150 years" It continues Steinbeck d GIANT PANSIES We bright aa when they were exe- cuted - Some of the floors are of beautiful mosaic recounting pagan myths Parts of the old ceilings aro still glowing with painted figures of gods and Neither birds and animals light nor the hands of marauders ever got Into these tombs And the inscriptions carved in marble are as full of sorrow and mourning as those on yesteryear’s gravestone Here lies a beloved wife here a child of 6 years 2 months and S days herd a revered and here a good and virtuous husband We did not Invent aorrow and loss In death and we did not invent the words color-destroyin- g grand-lathe- r They are here Just as they are with us The excavation has been carried out under the greatest difficulty for overhead is the enormous structure of SL Feter1 with its great columns and Its dome designed by Michelangelo In the narrow space cf the digging arches of concrete had to be put in place to support the weight before the earth could be moved It was done little by little and Inch by Inch and In a space Where even now the passages are little wider than a man’s body And once the supports were In place the earth was removed bit by bit until the tombs were exposed and all the richness of life and death exposed rein-lorce- d AND THEN came the problem of all excavations water The ancient conduits were still In place to carry off the rain water from the hill but many of them were plugged up and had to be cleared And humidity so far under ground would hava removed the brilliant colors of the tombs almost immediately Huge electric heaters bad to be installed to keep them dry We moved along where the excavators had gone and they must have done a great deal of their digging lying on the ground and passing the baskets of earth out behind them And behind them were the scholars with the plans and histories and speculations And then directly under the high altar of St Peter's they die covered the trophy set over the traditional grave of St Peter It was a place known and revered In a time when an old man who might have known Peter was still living Is It the actual site of the grave of St Peter? There are volumes of arguments for and against but certainly many generations have believed that here the apostle was buried after he was be PLANTER - - We Mail Anywhere SEEDS $29t BULBS BOXES - Order v 4 H you hovo told your homo eo con-tro- d you coo o (trait your contract Into Mill Hi rough o spool ol torvico now evoiloblo of Prudential tod oral tarings Cor complete Information phono or llf Prudential Fed oral Sovlngi 13 South Mol St Phono ond oik for Mr Hovnom Elgin - Today ?J' v' "1303 East '39tVSoutKT PH SALT LAKE CITY 17 FURNITURE d Ik Kit lYW CR7-712-1 WSFT W'k ‘ s m CTvCTy i) uu “In those early days postage charges were not based upon weight nor was there a standard charge for delivery in the country Instead postage was based upon the number of sheets in the letter and also upon the distance the letter was to travel "A letter consisted then of a single sheet folded and sealed and addressed upon the back The sender was not compelled to pay postage in advance It headed In the gardens of Nero was paid by the reoeiver Certainly the trophy was set up "In 1792 the postage on a over his supposed grave very single letter traveling not early in the Christian era by more than SO miles waa six people who were convinced that cents this was the placev “Rates on this zone basis went IN THE NARROW places up progressively to 25 centa for deep in the earth with the real single letters traveling more physical odor of antiquity In than 450 miles Should a comthe air a strange feeling came munication consist of two or to me of being suspended in three sheets the rates were doutime of belonging to no time ble or triple Very near to where I stood the “Should a communication Christian martyrs were slaughtered In the gardens of Nero and their distorted bodies perhaps flung Into a common grave They were the examples of devotion out of which the worldchanging structure grew But It seemed to me that it was not By Associated Press the killed who created a new WASHINGTON May 18— The world who first resisted then fought then destroyed the Army says WACs don’t have to pagan world do KP (Kitchen Police) duty It waa ths living ones the anymore members of the hunted com' Col C O Gilly of the Quarmunltles the planners the pre- termaster Corps eald he believed servers the rememberers the the change waa due to the fact survivors who really changed Wac perform mainly administhe world trative and clerical duty and when they aren’t at their jobs was It strange coming out are disrupted things of deep passages into the bril' liant sun of Rome a very GUIy made the statement hard feeling to write about— before a House appropriations subcommittee which released perhaps Impossible hia testimony Saturday Of course I went immediately to books And there is one ex“Do you not think you had cellent book written by Jocelyn better keep them in practice Toynbee and John Ward Per about how to get around the kins It is called ‘The Shrine kitchen?" Rep Robert L F of St- Peter" and it was pub- Siket asked lished in 1956 by Longman’s In “It would enhance their home London It contains an account economics" Gilly conceded “but of the whole excavation and has more from the military standmany drawings and photo- point sir I believe they could graphs and it is dedicated "To be more profitably employed In The Vatican Excavators" their offices" -- -a- nywhere Lb oMM urn u P0ES TIIE WORK 0PTW0 MACHINES-I- N THE SPACE OF ONE! Oh Happy Days! Wacs Freed From KP Duty - $5 Billion (D-Fl- CutT-l- t'i Easy Congress Hefts Lusty Ax To Chop at Ike’s Budget By Associated Press WASHINGTON May 18— If it sticks to its current pace Congress will have little difficulty cutting five billion dollars from new appropriations requested by President Dwight D NEW FILTER-STREA- ACTION GETS CLOTHES CLEANER WITH HALF THE VATER! M LOOK! A totally Eisenhower for the fiscal year starting July 1 The current pace Is an average reduction of 7 per cent It has been maintained by the House on bills financing 18 federal agencies or activities Bills dealing with nine agencies have cleared the Senate which has Imposed an over all cut slightly deeper than that voted by the House new kind of washing action! Clothes rids nip through a powerful stream of filtered hot suda Clothes drop down with just the right impact 45 times a minute They’re constantly showered with filtered water never dunked in dirty linty water This gets clothes cleaner with much less water— just H the water and H the soap The same amazing Filter-Strearinses your clothes S separate times Then a warm gentle breeze— at any of 5 temperatures— fluffs them thoroughly dry All automatic— load it set it forget H— no To date the nouse has considered requests for 19 billion dollars In new funds for regular government activities It has cut them by $1400000000 need to i Red Wlilie Flats Kinds AII All Sizes Hanging dnd Wall Them for You With Ferns Wandering Jew Etc GERANIUMS -P- ETUNIAS CLOSE-OUGLADIOLUS De Luxe Ratnhew Mix 12 for $100 30 for $200 In Baskets ' Converted To Cash SUGAR DAYS AT GRANITE ' Plant Under Shrine of St Peter Lie Many Historic Proofs Continued from Page One UNUSUAL-- REDWOOD T wlfe’a Exclusive Diary-Tribu- ne v 49c Dezee All Kinds BEBDINS PLANTS House Contracts both frequent and drastic "Professor you can’t flunk me! You know how hard my been working to put mo through college” r i & We’ve got (t! Conte see it! Come trade— and save! "Since 1879 theiV have been relatively few change but In earlier years the changes were f£- - regardless of distance wu established At the same time free city delivery service was Inaugurated thus abloshlng the carrier fee system for either collection or delivery of mall” letters traveling no more than 300 miles and 10 cents for single letters ’traveling more than 300 miles “Various acts of Congress between 1847 and 1850 established special rates for mall going to and from the Southwest and the Pacific Coast The Pony Express which operated to the Pacific Coast for 16 months in 1860 and 1861 charged $5 per letter at first and later reduced the charge to $L world-fame- A vr TIME TO PLANT Tn 1863 a uniform letter rate Sumraerfield Defends Postal ‘Bargain’ i i t fs 4 Raise Rates? ‘They’d Still Be Low’ Jli I Lain n jcmutwv Next week the House will receive from its appropriations committee the year’s biggest measure financing the Defense Department The President asked for $36100000000 for this department and the committee reportedly haa cut this about 2H billion dollars maintaining the 7 per cent average reduction Still to come are bills to finance the foreign aid program public works and some miscellaneous agencies ONLY SJ it Come back when your laundry’s done t Avdfuit k wHh or Motebook or plot yiliu or baby-ei- A WEEK AND FREE U&l SUGAR pm FOR HER GRADUATION! 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