Show abst post master general says a salary of a year not sufficient washington doc 27 in his annual report made public today first assistant postmaster general hitchcock says ithac tho low salaries paid clerks in drat and second class la decreasing the standard of efficiency it Is impossible he says to induce efficient men to enter athla branch of the service when the salary to begin with Is but per year arth no certainty 0 promotion for perhaps several years mr strongly recommends a discontinuance of the practice of installing in public buildings devoted in part to other branches of the government tha best type for quarters of purposes he says is a single large room in a one story building much embarrassment has been occasioned casio ned to the postal authorities to provide emergency mall facilities in mining towns and mr hitchcock recommends an emergency appropriation of to meet such requirements there has been an increase of more than in the amount of domestic and of booro than in tho amount ot foreign money orders issued during the year over the one preceding while the number of undelivered let which found their way to the dead letter office during the year was smaller than during the previous year the number of undelivered letters with valuable enclosures greatly increased general prosperity of uie country Is given as one reason another is the suppression by the department of concerns using the dialls tor fraudulent purposes mall tor such concerns containing money money orders and commercial paper was received at the dead letter office in unusual quantities nearly pieces of mail were received at the dead letter office during the year including 1668 that failed of delivery in the panama canal zone over casee of alleged indecent and scurrilous matter received attention the report says in the summer the influx of offensive plato elal post carda became so great as to call for a special order by the department looking to the abatement of the nuisance As a result of this order many thousands of objectionable cards have been withdrawn from the malla by postmasters and forwarded to the department for destruction |