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Show ITALIAN WIRE SERVICE IS HOTLY CRITICIZED ROMH Sept. 18. Complaint that the government postal and telegraph service Is poor Is crystahzed In a i statement by Professor Ugo Ancona. member of the recent Italian cabinet, I who declares that the ministry of posts and telegraph's must be abolished and organized anew. The professor suggests also that subsidiary branches I of the ministry, except the savings banks, bo given over to private enterprise, enter-prise, declaring that it Is Impossible to ko on as things now are. Profesor Ancona charges that the ministry Is a hopeless ' maid of all work" which tries to operate the postal post-al service, telegraphs, telephones, savings sav-ings banks, loans and na'.lonal lotteries lotter-ies and that it does all of these services ser-vices poorly. The public Is rapidly learning to send parcels by private llrms since of thosi confided to the statu more than 80 per cent tlo not ! arrive, while 30 per cent of those received re-ceived are without their contents says the pofessor He churges also thai the ministry of posts is enormously overstaffed with about Gti.tioo employes, em-ployes, some of whom aro "terribly underpaid," and that both discipline and organization are Badly wantlnK. ' The mlnlstrv had a deficit equivalent equiva-lent to $13.000:000 In its budget for last year owinic to greatly Increased operating expenses and wages. Thf deficit Is expected to reach $30. 000. 000 for the current year. |