Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — MR. BURLESON’S PROMISES [ARTICLE]

MR. BURLESON’S PROMISES

If the'Postmaster General realizes as he says, “the immensity of . the task” he has undertaken in administerihg the telegraph lines, the public will hope that he may rise to it. - He admits that these services have been “remarkably successful” heretofore, especially in view of the difficult conditions created by the war. Nor does he specify what the new opportunities for effecting “improvements and economies and a larger use of their facilities by the people may be. Every one will wish that the high hopes which inspire Mr. Burleson may come to fruition. But there is nothing irf the management of the Postoffice to suggest any great degree of optimism. “improvements and economies” there have not been hailed with much glee by the users of the /mails. On the contrary there is general dissatisfaction at what seems to be needless delays. In brief, Government control of the wires in an experiment. The war may have made it imperative, though proof of that is still lacking. But it will be judged by the results.— Public Ledger, Philadelphia.