Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1916 — One Cent Postage Rate May Be Had Next Year. [ARTICLE]

One Cent Postage Rate May Be Had Next Year.

Washington, July 19. —The National Association of Postmasters heard addresses today by a score of speakers, headed by Postmaster .General Burleson, covering a wide field of postal service porblems and developing numerous digressions into partisan politics, which drew a reprimand from Postmaster Selph, of St. Louis, president of the association. --ProspecLS of one cent letter postage were outlined by Mr. Burleson, who did not touch on political subjects. He said that should second class mail rates' be increased, the>-cost of mail transportation lowered under the new space payment system and “useless extravagance” in rural carriage elimiriated, initial steps could be taken next year toward reduction of the letter rate. His reference to second class rates was taken to indicate that the depaitmeift was planning a readjustment of charges on magazines and simdlar publications.