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r - 4 C 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 )NK 1 * 50-Mile Itadiu*. From Tu ATLANTA Austell, Buford. < ’ovlngton, Forsvth i iulnenville. fackson. New nail, (ZONK 2 i 0-M Rad. From ATLANTA To A then* \ TLANTA ! T« i Am'cin ;A ugusta Col bus ! M a con From ATLANTA To A1 ha n y 130C M. uut. ! From ! ATLANTA I E " arn, Ala Chattanooga Knoxville. I Mont.. Ala. From ATLANTA , To IColumbla Selma, .'via. •ZONK 3) From | ATLANTA I To Corinth, Ch’ston. K. I’vllle. Fla. I Pensacola. (ZONK 3) From ATLANTA To Mobile, Ala. Charlotte. (ZONK Z) (ZONK 31 From From ATLANTA (ATLANTA To | to Lev t n. Ky. Ib'v'nah, Ga. Gr'nsb , X. 0. Lie 10 l 2 14 15 16 17 1* 1 !♦ 20 Parrel Post. $ 05 06 .07 OK .09 .10 .11 .14 .15 .16 .17 .16 .19 .20 21 23 .24 •Ex presji Pan el •Kx Post pres $ .05 . - .06 2 .07 .2 08 10 A Ph r« Poa % >\ • Kx - f presH. Parcel Post pres- ? 05 .25 Kx- tPar< Pox i 25 .25 IK 20 .21 .24 .25 OB ,10 13 .14 .17 18 .70 1 .50 20 50 .30 .30 20 30 30 .30 .30 .30 30 20 30 30 .10 11 .12 .12 .14 .15 . 16 .17 * .19 20 .21 23 .24 .30 .30 .30 30 .30 .31 .35 .35 35 .35 35 3a el |Kx- . press. .26 .28 tParcel $Ex Post, press $ .96 OR 22 .10 .24 12 .25 14 .26 .16 .18 .20 13 .14 .15 .16 !ii .19 24 .39 ,31 .3:: .33 1 35 >.6 .37 .58 39 40 . 4 .26 .-8 38 10 .42 .44 .28 30 .31 ,32 33 34 .36 .37 .38 .39 .40 ' .4 3 .44 • Parcel *Ex- Post. press. *. 06 .22 08 .10 .12 .14 .16 .18 .20 . .23 26 .29 .31 .32 .34 Parcel $Ex- Post. press $ .06 .32 .08 .23 .10 .25 .12 .27 .14 .16 .18 .20 tParcel $Kx- Post. press. $ .06 08 .10 ?Parcel tEx pos t. press. $ .06 jgg .28 .30 .26 .28 30 .32 .34 .36 38 40 .42 .44 .37 .39 .40 .42 43 .45 .46 .48 49 .51 .24 .26 .28 .24 36 38 40 .42 44 .34 .35 .37 !40 .42 .44 .45 .47 .49 .54 .14 .16 18 .20 ■JR °4 26 .38 40 42 .44 .24 .26 .30 .24 .36 .38 .40 42 44 .46 <8 .50 .54 . .56 .58 60 .08 .10 .12 .11 .16 .18 .20 22 ^2 4 .26 28 30 .32 .34 .36 38 .40 .42 44 .25 .35 .35 .35 .35 .35 .40 .40 .40 .40 40 .40 40 .40 .40 ,40 * -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. 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