Show t OUT IN THE RURAL ROUTES Postmaster General New paid a very pretty compliment recently recently re 10 he addressed the cont convention con- con to the rural letter carriers when tt t of the National Letter Carriers Carrier's association The rural free delivery postal service he lie said is one of the indispensable features of American social and economical life We Ve all know kno it of course Of late years ears the radio has grown own as a link between farm and city but the radio goes one one way mostly and the letter carrier still takes the farmers' farmers message message message mess mess- age to his friends and the outside world Then again radio fails to bring the warm personal touch that the rural carrier conveys Most l of these men are an accommodating accommodating accommodating ac ac- and kindly lot and are arc couriers for local news all along long their routes la Ix the little world of rural folk the carrier is the bond of common knowledge knowledge- Day after day in all sorts of weather he plays a vital part in in rural community life I |