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A SUBSIDY AND AN UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION The Express reprints below an ar tic!1? frO!5 -o' Anviliarv to which we wish tojnvJte the atten tion of every who reads this paper, for it tells of a direct thrust at the business institutions of siball cities and towns. Vigorous protest should Be .made against a measure Of this kind. Business men who are concerned ifbout this matter should write their congressman and vrice their objections: The article follows : There is now before the postoffice committee of the tause a bill that is of intense and vital interest to every country community. It is a postal rrte bill introduced by Representa tiv Griest of Pennsylvania. It pro vides new postagejiates on several classes of mail, but '^h at Part *t of interest to the small cities and towns of the natioii is in connection with third class mail. Through rapferential rates on third-class mail to die large users of this class of mail it proposes to SUB SIDIZE the mail order houses and the big city merchants in their ef forts to secure the \ merchandizing business of the smaller cities and towns, by giving to these mail order houses and big cityj merchants a cheaper rate on.their business solici tations carried through the mails than would be accorded to the merchant of the smaller city or country town. It proposes direct ? DISCRIMINA TION against the . merchants of the smaller cities and toWs in favor of the merchants and maiil order houses of the larger cities. r AH of this is tied up in a JOKLK clause in the bill that provides that if the total weight of the total num ber of circulars of one kind to be mailed shall be twenty pounds or mere the postage rate shall be one cent for each piece weighing two ounces or less, but if the total num ber of copies of any one circular to be mailed shall weigh teas than twenty pounds, the postage 'charge on each i piece or two ounces or less shall be one and one-half cents. | Any one piece of direct-by-mail ad vertising of the mail order houses or the big city merchants is mailed to to many thousands of prospective buyers, and covers very wide sections of the country. The total number of such pieces of direct-by-mail adver tising would easily weigh many times twenty pounds, and because the total weight of. all theae - was twenty pounds or more flje postage rate would be one cent for each piece. The merchant doing business in the smaller city or the country town who wished to ' mail, api^fe of-direetrby mail advertising to die possible pur chasers m his town add in the trade territory of that towif;^«Sulil have a mailing tbt of hut a few hundred, possibly one thousand, names at the most. Hie total weight of this num ber of circulars or small booklets would be less than twenty pounds, and this small city or country town merchant must pay one and one-half cents on each piece as a postage charge. In the case of the mail from the mail order house or the big city mer chant the government “must pay for the handling and sorting of these thousands of pieces of mail at the office at which they are deposited for mailing; the government must trans port them on railroad trains for which the government must pay the railroads; when they arrive at desti nation the government must pay for sorting them by individual addresses and must pay the carriers for deliv ering them to the individuals to whom they are addressed. But in the case of the same class of mail used by the merchants of the the small cities and towns^ practical ly all of it would be delivered direct to the persons to which the pieces aie addressed through hut the one postoffice, and the government would save the cost of handling and sorting in one post office, and would save the cost of the rail transportation. Yet it proposes to handle the mail that involves these additional costs at two thirds the charge for1 which it will handle the mail that does not.involve these additional' costs, i ‘ t During 1927 the charge for hand ling third-class mail of two ounces or less was one and one-half cents per piece, except for booklets of twenty page or more and weighing two ounces or less, for which the charge was one cent, and these one cent mailings were a comparatively small per centage of the more than four billion pieces of third-class mail hand led by the Post Office Department. During 1927 the cost to the govern ment of handling each piece of third clrss mail was ?1,759.09—approxi mately one. cent and eight mills. Of this per piece total, .34941—approx imately four mills—was the cost per piece fpr transportation and distribu tion in transit. ■ In other words, it costs the govern ment a very small fraction less than one and one half cents to handle each piece of third-class mail, weighing two ounces or less, when there were ro transportation charges. -That is, the third-class mail directly through the one postoffice and to the people in the vicinity of that postoffice. That is the character Of the hird class mail used by the merchants of the smaller cities and country I towns. But for the Uiird-ejas* drig mating in the larger cities—the di | rect-bv-maU advertising or the mail l order houses and the big city merch ants*—distributed over the wide areas, ■ the cost to the government was better than one-quarter of a cent a piece more than the government received. Now it is proposed to cut the post rates uu these mail order houses and big city merchants to a point where rthe loss will be more than til ree-quarters of a cent on each piece without granting the same reduction to the merchants of the smaller cities and towns whose mailings cost the government one-quarter of a cent per piece less to handle. That is direct DISCRIMINATION against the people of the smaller cit ies and country towns, whose com munities depend for their prosperity and growth on the maintaining of a merchandising center; it is direct DISCRIMINATION against the mer chants of these communities against whom would be assessed a heavier sales cost in their effort to meet the competition of the mail order houses and the large city merchants than is assessed against these outside competitors; it is a direct DISCRIM INATION against both the printer and the newspaper publisher of these smaller cities and towns who must depend for their prosperity upon the prosperity of the merchants and the people of their communities. It is a SUBSIDY to the mail order houses and the big city merchants in that it proposes to render a service for these mail order houses and big city merchants at less than the estab lished costs of that service and charge the deficit up to the TAX PAYERS of the nation. Any congressnlan,^ and especially any congressman representing a ccuntry district, who would vote for that bill is not entitled to the support nf the people of su|h a district. He would be voting to sacrifice not only the interests of the people who have elected him, but the best interests of the nation as a whole because the best interests of the nation depend upon the prosperity of all the nation, end not upon the prosperity of the cities alonp. If congress wishes to pass a law making a one-cent postage rate on third-class mail there will be no great objection provided the law applies equally to all. It does not cost the government any more to transport and distribute one thousand pieces of mail mailed by one thousand differ ent persons, than it does to transport and distribute one thousand pieces of mail mailed by one person. One touch of nature may make the whole world kin, as the poet says« But it is £ fact that with one .touch of a fraudulent scheme alj touch ed are skinned. Special For Friday and Sat urday— Men’s Good Blue Overalls $1.00 A PAIR. Stroud & Hubbard, The Shoe and Hosiery Store. SANFORD, N. C. PENDERS The Belter Chain Stores ' 1 ■ 1 i This Week’s Specials ! Fanning clumber Pickles, j6aruZ 19c Red Wing Preserves,27c Bean Hole Beans With that Maine j Woods Flavor, 2 cans Pure Pack or Prudence Corned Beef Hash, LARGE CAN 25c 25c D. F Oatmeal, 3 Wimp’s Sausage Meat, JiPou"d 27c " .■■—■■■■■«■—.. ' '1 11 I .'I ..I ■■ '!■ .. , Campbell’s Beans, 3 Cans, - 25c ODR PRIDE BREAD, tm10c r. O. B. FACTORY Amazing Nash price reductions— Effective Feb. 1st A FULL 5-passenger 7-bearing Nash Six Sedan at such an amazingly low price seems almost incredible. But to anyone familiar with tlie ex ceptional manufacturing ability qf C. W. Nash, this achievement in value is not surprising. It in another striking indication of his determination to give Nash owners finer motoring at the lowegt possible cost. There are 24 Nash models, six of them now priced under a thousand dollars f. o. b. the factory, every one of them Super-powered by the very smooth, very quiet, very powerful Nash-type 7-bearing motor. And every one of the 24, a finer mode of motoring, with such Nash perform ance advantages as the Nash straight line drive, Nash tubular trussed frame, Nash 2-way 4-tcheel brakes, Nash alloy steel springs, shock absorbers, front and rear— —And among them, 39 alluring color effects, from which to pick the color of your car. Drive a Nash, today, and you’ll know why Nash leads the world in motor car value. c. C. BOWERS, Agent Sanford, N. C.
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