Show RATES HIGH ENOUGH SECOND CLASS INCREASE PLAN STIRS publishers efficiency of HItch cocks management of the post office department attacked by tho the A fa N P A washington the A N P A through its postal committee of which don C seltz seitz of new york Is chairman has joined in the fight against the proposed increase in second class rate rates and in IN lart bulletin the com cittee attacks the management of the post office department the bulletin Is as fol follow lovs a the extent to which the post office department does not carry ond claas class mattar Is well revealed in the following foll abstract Rb of inquiry of publishers conducted by home house corn com mitt v on expenditures in the post office department william A ash brook chairman concerning the vol ume weight and handling of the out pit of publications entered as mill m uter of the second class for the fiscal year ending june 30 1911 inquiry was made of all publish era approximating thirty thousand of which nearly seventeen thousand are weekly publications more lore than ten thousand returns were received embracing clity st ity six 31 plus per cent of all tonnage of publications licati ons ous atie publications reporting depre nent ent an annual output of inore than six it and one half billion copies the weight of which was one and three quarter billion pounds alese publications delivered by mall in such period weighed pounds they delivered by their own car rier raws boys and newa news companies compan loa pounds of which an unaa percentage was carried to destination by express and other rait rail shipments outside the th mall they delivered by express pounds and by other rail shipments US pounds the rate by express and rail varies from A to I 1 cent per pound but the bulk of these shipments went ent at a rate of VA i to JJ cent per pound the post office for the year end ing june 30 1911 handled and excluding one half million pounds tree free in county matter it received one cent per pound all this goes to add to the ab of the proposed hitchcock Ilitch cock leg isolation doubling the second class rate from one to two lents cents per pound and limiting the privilege to publications that carry as much reading matter as they do advertising the proposition was stupid enough when the postal deficit reached 17 tivo aa years ago it becomes preposterous in nee ace of a surplus what business bad a transports tran tion corporation which Is to all the post office Is to pr prescribe scribe how a business shall be conducted conduct edv newspapers camilot afford to ex 11 their thel columns kiyond the call of the day days a nors nor can they be expected to cp aral the require requirements menth of their advertisers who have a right to reach the public as copiously as they care to it cannot be assumed that such legislation gIsl Atlon will vill ever get by congress but publishers are requested to fight the theory that the right tu to send their output by mail mall Is a privilege the figures show it Is not the lost Is a badly man aged business that Is nil all we WO should fight its dictation its censor ship and its |