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Show GRASSROOTS Increase in Third-Class Mail Rate Is Desirable I By Wright A. Patterson I "pVERY TIME the mail carrier ' delivers mail at my door it , consists largely of third class mail, circulars, solicitations of one kind and another. Things I did not ask for, do not want, and do not read, though they are made to appear as letters through the use of special spe-cial envelopes, one flap of which is folded in so as to make it appear ap-pear sealed. . An increase In third class mail ' should be considered, raising it to the price of second sec-ond class or letter mail. This could be done without imposing any added cost te the people, other than those who use it for sales or other solicitations. . Any increase on letter mail af- fects all of the people and constitutes con-stitutes an added government burden for all to pay. Any increase in-crease n second class mail, newspapers and periodicals, would mean an increase in the subscription prices on the newspapers news-papers and periodicals, which the public, the subscribers, would pay. An increase on third class mail would accomplish one of two things, or possibly both. It would increase the postal revenues by all or more, , than the present annual deficit. defi-cit. If any, or It would reduce re-duce the amount of mail, and the cost of postal operations. It could do some of both, and It J would not cost the people of the nation generally a penny. ; The only ones to be affected would be those using the postal facilities as a means of promoting sales for their products or services, those whose business is that of preparing direct mail advertising copy, and the printers who produce the circulars circu-lars that are used in such advertising adver-tising campaigns. All of them together to-gether represent but a limited few, not enough to cause any fear of reprisals on the part of those who might vote for the elimination of the third class, or for the repeal of any increase in second class congress con-gress may have made in an effort to balance the postal expenditures and receipts. the postoffice department has an actual annual deficit, a fact that has not been proven, the practical and sensible way to remedy that condition is by an increase in third class mail. Newspapers and periodicals periodi-cals should collectively urge that method. Should you be one of the 83 million mil-lion holders of life insurance policies, pol-icies, or one of the 50 millions who have savings accounts in the banks and building and loan organizations, organiza-tions, or one of the 80 million owners own-ers of government bonds, or one of the 100 million social security card holders, or one of the 38 mil-ion mil-ion workers expecting to draw industrial in-dustrial insurance, or one with any investment from which it is expected ex-pected to derive revenue to support you during declining years, you have a very definite interest in inflation. The dollars you would receive today from any one of these sources would pay for less than one half the things you need than would have one half of the dollars as late as even 10 years ago. That is inflation, and it seriously se-riously effects each one of us. What can we, as individuals, do about it? We can demand action on the part of our representative in congress and our two United States senators and demand action in such terms that they will not fail to understand the full meaning of that demand. Tell them you want less new money issued, the government govern-ment debt reduced, all payments in any form to all minority groups stopped, all government expenditures, expendi-tures, unless they can be shown as essential, reduced by at least a million. A sufficient number of demands will get such results, along with a decrease in taxes, and getting those results will stop inflation. That is your part in the fight against the inflation monster. The Republican nominee for the presidency may be left to write his own platform, but what about nominees nom-inees for the house of representatives representa-tives and the senate. Are they to be entirely on their own in their campaigns? Attorney General McGrath has headed a crusade for honesty and Integrity in sports and athletics. Why not a crusade for honesty and integrity in government. It Is needed need-ed there more than in sports and athletics. |