Hooking Newspapers in the p. o.
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1 TCA, july o. 1914.
To the Editor Of the Tribune:


AS the Press is one OF the most efiectual agents
now in use in correcting abuses, avail myself Of
this opportunity of calling the attention OF the
public to a very prevalent and grievous evil


The evil 20 which | ailudc IS Que connected
with the Post Office and which calls loudly for
the interference of the public, as It's continuance
cannot jail to bring odlum and disgrace on one
Of the most useful OF Institutions that civilized
nations can boast OF. The practice of purIolnlng
Newspapers sent from abroad TO people IN this
country has now become so common as to excite
the suspicious of foreigners residing here, and 1t
has been ascertaincd that newspapers have been
sent to individuals, from one PoSt-Ottlce to ano-
ther, but which never arrived to the individual,
having been hOoked at some intermediate office.
One instance of the disgraceiul conduct OF those
wor,hies will be sufficient to show to what an eX
tent this evil prevails \ friend Of mine called
at Post. Office not All hundred miles from C'icd.
and inquired il there was paper for hm, bu'
received an answer in the negative during the
time the official was looking IN the box the at'en
ton of the applicant WAS drawnto a paper IN IN
hands of an individual behind the partition, On
| the margin of which he saw his own name, and
consequently demanded it, which resulted IN lis
being very poiifely handed over to It's rghtini
owner II you Will he so kind as to give this an
Insertion in your widely circulated journal, you
will confer great favor on thousands OF injured
individuals and much oblige


AFoREleyER ASD SUFFERER


FROM THE ABOVE BASE PRACTICE