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IIEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1013.
10 SWELL ALREADY VAST
Postmaster Jones Expects Raising of
Weight Limit January i to Assure
Volume of 80,000 Packages a Day.
Gives Important Facts on System.
Postmaster Bolling 11. Jones thinks tlie new parcel post rates,
which go into effect January 1, when the limit of weight for ship
ments in the first and second /ones will be raised to oO pounds, and
to 20 pounds in the remaining five /.ones, will result in a tremen
dous increase in business of the local postoffiee. I he present limit |
in all /ones is 11 pounds
“I am confient,’’ Mr. Jones said Saturday, “that with the
new rates in effect and the people able to send larger and heavier
packages through the mails by parcel post, we shall be handling
on January 1, 1015, three times the volume of parcel post mail we
are handling now.
Mr. Jon?* Saturday Leaned a com*
j>arat!ve statement of parcel post f»nrt
•xpress rates from Atlanta to repre
sentative points In zones 1, 2 and 3,
covering: points within a radius of HO,
160 and 300 miles of Atlanta, respec
tively, which is printed in this issue
of The American. The parcel post
rates are the new ones in effect Jan
uary 1, for shipments from 1 to 20
points, and the express rates are the
current rates of the Georgia Railroad
Commission and the rates that the In
terstate Commerce Commission has
ordered Into effect February 1, 1914,
New Rates Being Made.
Mr. Jones said the rate* for pack
ages ranging in weight between 20
and 50 pounds, which can be shipped
t»v parcel post to points In zones 1 and
2 have not yet been made up by the
Postoffiee Department, but will he
available shortly after the holidays.
“The new parcel post rates.” said
Mr. Jones, “offer the average man, as
well as the mail order house, an un
excelled opportunity to send produce
and packages cheaply and conven
iently. Under the new rates, On-
farmer. for instance, can send 50
pounds of ham or f»0 pounds of his
produce, boxed tightly ..nd In the
right manner, through the parcel post
for much less than the rate charged
b” the express company.
“Of course, the smaller the package
the greater the difference In favor ,f
the parcel post. For instance, a one-
pound package can be tentsby parcel
post from Atlanta to Gainesville for
6 cents, while the xpress rate Is £6
cents, and a package of similar
weight can be sent from Atlanta to
Columbia, 8. I’., for 6 cents, while f he
express companies charge 22 cents
"The same rates prevail on on»*
pound packages from Atlanta to
Jacksonville, Charlotte, Mobile, L*x-
H0WPARCEL POST SAVES YOU M0NEY-A COMPARISON WITH EXPRESS RATES
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* -Current rates of the Georgia Kail road Commission
t••-Rates of the Interstate Commerce Commisaion. effective February.1, 1914.
Ndw Parcel Post rates, effective January 1, 1914
Upon Single Word
Hinges $250,000
DENVER Dec. SO.- Attorneys who
souRlit to have the will of the late
Allen M. (Ihosl sustained as signed
by Ghost some time prior to his
death, now see much in one word.
Uy this one word they maintain
that Mrs. Genevieve Ghost Whitted,
only heir of the real estate man, won
000 The\ say that while they
believe Judge Rothberger erred in the
construction of the will, they main
tain that if the word "poor” tiad been
used instead of "distressed." Mrs.
Whitted would have been compelled
to devote the J250.000 to charity.
Intrepid Thieves
Rob Skunk Farms
WARRENSBURG, MO., Dec 20. -
Johnson County has produced the last
word in theft. It is the plundering . f
Hkunk farms. Since the fur of this ani
mal has grown valuable many farmer*
arc raising them. Mason Stirk. a farm
er near Knohnoster, had a corral which
contained 100 of the little animals He
went hunting to-day. and when he re
turned he found his corral had been
visited by thieves The animals Ia\
nearby, denuded of their skins.
James Huffaker, another farmer, r*
cently lost sixty skunks through theft
The robbers have realized several hun-
dred dollars.
Ington, Ky., and other points in zones
2 and 3.
“For a 20-pound package the par-
»1 p.»st rat s in zone 1. to such towns
aa ( ’ovlngton, Gainesville and New-
nan, are 24 cents, while the express
companies charge 25 cents. The par
cel post rate on a 20-pound package
from Atlanta to Birmingham is '4
cents, by express 40 cents, and the
same rate prevails to Montgomery
and Chattanooga and other points
within a radius of 150 miles.''
“I base btis estimate, on the gigan
tic increase of business within the
T»;iHt six months Right now we are
handling from 15.000 to 25,000 parcels
every day, and by the time the now
rates have been In effect a few
months, and the people get it firmly
fixed in their minds that the parcel
post is the fastest and best met hod of
transferring packages from one point
to another we shall he handling be
tween 45,000 and 80,000 packages a
day, varying somewhat, of course
w 1th the seasons “
Express Firms Not Hurt.
Although the new rates place the
United States Postoffiee Department
for the first time in direct and serious
competition with the express compa
nies, Mr, Jones said Saturday night
that he does not believe the compa
nies will be seriously hurt by the
business that is expected to go from
them to the parcel post.
“Most of tlie business handled out
of Atlanta by tb«* parcel post,” lie
.said, “is business that the express
companies would not get under ordi
nary conditions. Thousands of pack
ages are sent l»v parcel post that used
to be sent by ordinary third and
fourth class mail, and there are thou
sands of them seiit now that would
not be sent if the parcel post were not
in existence.
“The convenience and certainty of
the parcel post is the strongest argu
ment in *lts favor, and as the people
continue to learn of this convenience
and certiinty. the more they will pat
ronize the malls In sending packages.
“The express companies, I venture
to say, will continue to do about the
same volume of business, even with
the new parcel post rates in effect,
that they are doing now It is much
the same kind of a proposition that a
man faces when he opens a new' store
in a retail district. He may get plen
ty of business, but the old estab
lished firms do not notice any mate
rial decrease in their own trade. The
additional trade springs up from
somewhere, no one knows where, but
it Is there.
Much Red Tape Eliminated.
“We have been trying to increase
the convenience of the parcel post to
Atlantans, and have managed to elim
inate much of the red tape that sur
rounded the system when it was first
Inaugurated. We go after business
Just like any other trade enterprise,
and. although there is little mail order
business here compared to some of the
Northern cities, each as New York
and Chicago, we try to offer accom
modations to local mail order houses
to induce them to ship their goods by
parcel pobt.
“For more than h month I’ve been
sending postoffiee clerks to the Davi
son-Faxon-Stokes Company, the
Fhamberlln-Johneon-DuBose < ’ompa -
ny. the Rich Company and other At
lanta houses which do a mail order
business, and their packages are
weighed and rated light in their own
stores.
“They are then delivered at the
postoffiee in a postoffiee wagon. We
are willing to do this for any firm
that averages from 75 to 250 pack
ages a day.”
There are only two instances in
the statement prepared by Mr. Jone.-
show ing the comparative rates where
the parcel post'rn tes a re greater than
those of the express companies.
Those cotne in transporting 2ft and
19-pound packages from Atlanta to
Savannah. The parcel post rate is
44 cents, and the express rate is 40
cents for the 20-ppun.f packages and
42 and 44 cents for the 19-pound
packages.
The cost of sending 18-pound pack
ages from Atlanta to Savannah is the
game—40 cents—In both the parcel
posi. and by express. The same rate
of 44 cents is also made for sending
20-pound packages from Atlanta to
points like Columbia, S. C. and Sel
ma, Ala.
Mail Swamped; Quick
Aid Asked of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Santa
Claus has swamped the United States
mails and Postmaster General Burle
son sent an appeal to-day to Congress
to give him at nn« e $100,000 for
emergency to pay for additional mail
bags and extra employees who are to
be pressed into servi e for distribu
tion and delivery. He is contemplat
ing special cards to addresses asking
them to call at the genera! offices and
carry home their own mail.
The bulk of the mail is in the great
cities of New York. Chicago. St.
Louis. Brooklyn, Boston, Philadel
phia, Baltimore and Atlanta. In part
this congestion is due to normal
growth of the mail, but expansion of
the panel post and p'ostal savings
bank system Is responsible for the
business burial of the department
clerks and official*
Without assistance by the postof-
flce authorities the parcel post service
has grown by leaps and bounds until
it is now far ahead of all estimates
The business is so great that profits
from this service may run to $30,-
000,000 for this fiscal year.
8,000 Extra Men in
Railway Mail Rush.
WASHINGTON, De. 20 Eight
thousand extra men are at work to
day in the railw'ay mail service to
handle the Christmas traffic. Post
master General Burleson has author
ized postmasters to employ as many
extra men as they need to guard
against a congestion <rf mails. The
Postmaster General declared that
published reports of congestion were
inspired “to discredit the parcel post.”
Poses Wife for ‘Great Unkissed 1 Now
‘September Morn' Is Episcopal Rector
Indiana Woman Objected So Loudly Son of John Alexander Dowie Or-
Jf/TANY a good position has
1 been found through the
“Help Wanted” columns of
The Georgian. Both Phones 8ooo
Policeman Heard Rumpus
and Interferes.
HAMMOND, IN D.. Dor. 20.—The
more Joseph Dettioff saw of "Sep
tember Morn.” the more he admired
Mary, his wife. It was at night.
DettLoff had come home late. Under
his arm was a tinted replica of ‘'Sep
tember Morn.'’
“You’re a sight more charming than
the picture—or you would be under
the same circumstances.” said Dett
ioff. and he produced a can of re!
paint and a whisk broom.
“I'm some artist myself, said h°.
“Now. you get a washtub and I'll fill
it while you’re preparing to po«^.“
“Preparing to what?” raged the
scandalized wife.
Dettioff was arrested and fined $4.
Seek Radium Suppiy
In the Black Hills
DEAD WOOD, S. DAK.. Dec. 20. J.
W. Young, a mining expert of Salt
Lake City, is here investigating
sources of radium production in the
interests of a Pittsburg chemical con
cern. He made a trip to the up-gulch
country, in company with John Tre-
bor and went over the ground which
was formerly owned by the late
Baron Dafler and is now among the
holdings of the New Reliance Mining
Company.
On the ground there is exposed a
40-foot vertical vein of uranium bear
ing rock, which is heavily impreg
nated with the yellow stain of that
mineral. Sample? were brought to
Deadwood and will be subjected to
tests by the people whom Mr. Young
represents here.
dained Into Priesthood by
Chicago Bishop.
The Empire State of the South
Wilson Message to
Be School Textbook
) KENOSHA, WIS.. Dec. 20 — Class
ing the recent message of President
Wilson to Congress as one “npver ex
| celled for terseness, clearness, sch >1- j
a Ely handling of great questions, and
for the subordination of the lesser
matters to the greater matters of j
state.” Mrs. Mary V. Bradford has or
dered the message be made a textbook
for the use of all students of civics in
the schools of Kenosha.
Printed copies, were distributed to
day, and the • pc pi s will study the
message'through December and Jan
j uarv.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—John Alexan
der Gladstone Dowie, son of Alexan
der Dowie, the founder of Zion City,
was yesterday ordained as an Episco
pal minister by Dr. G. F. Toll, suf
fragan bishop of Chicago, at .St.
Luke’s Church, Evanston. Mr. Dow«e
has been a deacon of St. Luke’s Mis
sion In South Chicago, ana i.ow that
he Jias been ordained he w ill assume
active charge of the church.
Gladstone Dowie long was known
as the “Great Unkissed,” 1 ecause his
father asserted publicly that his ma
ture son never had *eU a woman’s
embrace, save his mother's.
Mrs. Jane Dowie, mother of the
Rev. J. A. Gladstone Dowie, was in
the audience. She also is a member
of the Episcopal Church, having
joined it since Dr. Dowie’s death.
Woman May Control
Gary’s Police Force
1—
GARY, IND., Dec. 20.—Mayor Thos.
E. Knotts, of Gary, is considering the
appointment of Mrs. Kate Wood Ray.
the Gary suffragist leader, to the va
cancy in the Safety Board caused by
the resignation of President H. H
Highland.
Should Mrs. Ray be named as Safe
ty Commissioner the other two mem
bers of the board would appoint her
as president and Gary will be the only
city In the United States with a
woman Police Commissioner.
Woman Pays Her Bill
To City in Dynamite
i PASADENA, Dec. 20.—Dynamite
can be used to pay water bills in Pas-
, adena. Mrs. Delbert M. Garner to-
, day appeared at the City Hall. Hav-
j ing no cash, she asked Commissioner
Metcalf if he would accept a quan
tity of dynamite. Metcalf agreed.
Mrs. Garner got the dynamite in pay
ment of a board bill by a miner
CHRISTMAS VALUES
| Wind Takes Check 52
^ Miles; It Is Recovered
Here are figures that tell their own story of Georgia. While the won
derful development of t lie South lias attracted the attention of the whole
nation, so rich is Georgia's marvelous versatility of resources and such
has been her unquestioned leadership in progress, that she lias worthily
won 11n* undisputed t il le of the “Empire State of the South.” The figures
speak for themselves.
Values of Georgia’s 1913 crops, conservatively estimated.
Sugar Cane ami Products.
Hay
Fruits
Peanuts
other Product*
Minerals
HARRISBURG, Dec. 20.—A check
of $32.50, belonging to S. F. Hess,
of Woodbine. Md„ was found to-day
; near Hummelstown. Pa. where it had
| been blown by the wind.
The check was in the home of Hess
September 21, when a tornado demol
ished his house and barn. The dis
tance between the two towns in a
beeline is 52 miies.
Woman Follows Her
Husband in Office
JEFFERSON CITY. MO.. Dec. 20.
Governor Major lias appointed Mrs.
L. T. ('ashman, of Gallatin. Recorder
; of Deeds of Davies County, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
her husband, elected to the office in
1910.
There were several applicants for
1 the appointment before Mrs. C^ihiii&n
signified she would like to have the
place. When the fact became known
the wanted it, everybody who had ap
plied withdrew in her favor.
Sour, Gassy
Stomach
Dizziness, Ead Breath All Dis
appear by Tailing Tyner's
Dyspepsia Remedy.
A 50c bottle of Tyner’s Dyspepsia
Remedy, the wonderful new remedy for
Dyspepsia, will give you such quick re
lief of every form of stomach and bowel
trouble as to astonish you. as it has
hundreds of sufferers from indigestion,
dizziness after eating,, bloating, bad
breath, heartburn, sour tasting of the
food, belching wind. Tyner’s Dyspepsia
Remedy, a preparation made from pur
est ingredients and has great healing
power on the digestive organs, acting
directly on the delicate lining of the
stomach and intestines. It is different
from all other preparations for Dyspep
sia and cures where al’ else falls Use
as directed on bottle. The good effects
will come quick. You will know by re
sults In a few minutes that Tyner’s
Dyspepsia Remedy is what you need
and have been looking for.
Do not delay. If you suffer from any
stomach trouble, dyspepsia, or bowel
trouble, pain in the head or eyeballs
ia sign of indigestion), get a 50c bottle
at once. Don’t mind the price. If I*
cures you it Is worth $10 to you. Sold
by druggists everywhere.—Advt.
You Don’t
Need Money
—Buy any of these useful clothing gifts on easy
credit terms; pay us after Christmas.
—Christmas is almost here, and there is no need
of your worrying over the monev. We’ll be
glad to open a convenient charge account with
you, and supply you with all of the clothing
you want.
—Come in and make your selection. Choose
from our large stock of men’s, women’s and
children’s guaranteed clothing, hats and shoes;
and we’ll arrange the terms of pay. lent to suit
your convenience.
—We are offering many special Christmas values
in all lines of wearing apparel, and it will pay
you to come here before purchasing elsewhere.
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Your Credit Is Good—Use It
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