Word: postalized
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...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...
...budget for the next fiscal year, as completed by Budget Bureau and submitted to the President, called for an expenditure of $1,700,000,000 exclusive of payments on the public debt and postal expenditures. This, according to announcement, is the figure to which President Harding had hoped to limit expenditures. In addition there is $1,300,000,000, for interest and amortization of the public debt, making the grand total $3,000,000,000. (As postal revenues ap- proximately offset the allowance of the Post Office Department, this amount is not an " expense " in the same way as other...
...struggled with its sixty per cent rule for class elections and each year its chagrin has increased. Day after day of balloting has gone by while committees in charge have drummed up reluctant voters until the quota was at last attained. This year elections are being carried on by postal ballot and optimistic committees seem to believe that one or two days will suffice to crown their efforts with success. For they argue quite logically that to the jaded Sophomore and the indifferent Junior it is easier to walk to a mail box than to a polling booth...
...blessing in the future. Proposed originally because there was too little interest in the middle class elections, the rule has not even theory, much less practical success, to recommend it; interest in class elections, it has been proved, can not be awakened by legislation. If the postal ballot method of election does not succeed both in appealing to the voter's interest and catering to his love of ease, nothing will succeed and it is time to abolish Sophomore and Junior class elections...
...Over 750 postal ballots were mailed last night to members of the Sophomore class for election of class officers...