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...century into some remote period of a forgotten past. For these six months I subscribed to TIME, which previously I had known only as a magazine on my friends' tables. Of course it came late, but that made no difference in such a place. I used to parcel it out, reading sections of the magazine each night by candlelight after I had finished writing up my day's notes, and restraining myself with great difficulty from swallowing it all at one gulp. I do not think a magazine could have been put to a more exacting test...
...Parcel post rates be upped to make the service self-sustaining and postmasters cease soliciting such business...
Makers of tabulating machines refused to see why the Census Bureau should manufacture and repair its apparatus. Printers violently objected to the Post Office's merchandising stamped and printed return envelopes at the rate of 10,000,000 per day. Railway Express Agency wanted to put the parcel post system out of business because it operated for less than cost.* Architects contended that the Treasury was hogging the design of new public buildings. Brokers in farm products were bitterly resentful against the Farm Board's activities...
This current criticism of the banking system is part and parcel of the whole interesting tendency toward the socialization of private business. For long this tendency has been going on, but it is such catastrophes as the present depression which serve to bring it to a head. In such times, it becomes clear to all that in certain fields of commerce, free competition is undesirable. In these fields the prime requisite is stability and security. Even if some of the much vaunted freedom of action which is the essence of the capitalistic system must be abridged to secure these, still...
Died. Frederick Fremont Ingram, 76, "Father of the U. S. Parcel Post System," founder of Detroit's Frederick F. Ingram & Co. (pharmaceutical products); in San Diego, Calif...