Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1918 — BETTER MAIL SERVICE FOR NAVY [ARTICLE]

BETTER MAIL SERVICE FOR NAVY

Senator Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania is the ranking Republican member of both the Committee on Naval Affairs and on Post Offices. That circumstance puts him in a position to secure better mail facilities for men of the navy. Mr. Penrose has reported a bill to the Senate providing for the designation of enlisted men of the navy to act as mail clerks at shore stations. Heretofore such men have acted as mail clerks only on board ship, but the large training stations that have been established on land have made it necessary to provide for the better handling of mail at those points. Especially is this true of the Great Lakes Training Station, where several thousand men are undergoing a course of naval instruction. Numerous complaints have been made of the faulty mail system now in operation at that place, which Senator Penrose’s bill is intended to correct.