Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1914 — P. M. General Plans to Open R. F. D. to Bids. [ARTICLE]

P. M. General Plans to Open R. F. D. to Bids.

Postmaster General Burleson has a scheme on hand to save the postoffice department $20,000,000 per year. He suggests that rural free delivery routes be sold to the lowest bidders, the same as the oldfashioned “star” routes. Mr, Burleson is probably prompted in this suggetsion by the fact that so many of the carriers are republicans and that is the only way he sees clear to get them out. The very shame of such a recommendation is outrageous. It would be just as fair to select a postmaster-gener-al by offering the job to bids. The salaries now paid are substantial, but no higher than the good of the service justifies. It is certainly to be hoped that the day never comes when these important positions are filled otherwise than through civil service and that the salaries are always maintained at a plane befitting our government.