Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago these 50 offices would have consti- tuted no business index, because in 1913 fourth-class mail was only about 5% of all domestic matter carried. Now it is 63%, the 14- year-old parcel post service having been extensively adopted by manufacturers for delivering their merchandise. The Rural Free Delivery system, inaugurated in 1896, opened up a new mail-advertising field which is now seven million families strong, and parcel post enabled advertisers to fill their mail orders with mail deliveries...
...Special Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they skip the terminals and are expedited in the railway mail cars...
...Urban v. Rural. Only first-class mail pays its own way. Hence there are annual deficits in all the five branches of U. S. mail service which carry all classes of mail. Yet the Rural Free Delivery is regarded by some people as more of a public welfare service than City Delivery, Village Delivery, the Star Routes* or the Railway Mail. Mr. New could not see how this distinction could be made, nor why some people want to have the Rural Free Delivery deficit treated as an extra-postal expense in the national budget...
...dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city men gov ern themselves their own way. While city and country reformers quarrel over moral and religious issues especially in the South, in dustrialists are quietly entrenching themselves "behind strong federal breastworks" of which the result will...
...MALLETS?E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phrase "an English novel" has come to have a peculiar conversational significance. It connotes a fiction with a background unmistakably English, usually rural; with thoroughly British characters who are fond of animals, especially horses. The length of the book is at least twice what it should be were not the fiction "an English novel...