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In another county, the original announcement called for the discontinuance of 7 post offices. Later, this number was reduced to 5, and this same political chairman announced in the public press that “This decision to continue the 2 post offices is keeping with the recommendations” of the local Republican committee.
Mr. Chairman, again I say that I would have no criticism of a policy to discontinue an office where nonpartisan investigation shows that such action would result in economy without impairment of service.
But these political committees are “not deciding this public question on the basis of economy to the taxpayer. Neither are they deciding them on the basis of efficieht service to the public. %
They are saving a few in communities where the public protest is such that it becomes politically expedient so to do.
In other communities, the decision seems to be based on the question 9f where a postmaster of one political party cap be. replaced by a rural carrier of another, and these decisions are made without regard to economy or efficiency but solely with regard to whether or not it is of benefit to patronage-hungry political organizations. ; '■ I wcnjld like simply to ask what we are heading into in the administration of the Post Office Department We have at the present time by and
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