THE INTELLIGENT
MANAGEMENT OF
A PUBLIC INDUSTRY
Thousands of Dollars Saved
Annually by Introduction
of Modern Methods in the
Post Office Department
Washington, July 10.—The
interest of people in public
affairs is considerably height
ened when they learn that the
revenues of the Government
are wisely and judiciously
managed. A statement of eco
nomical expenditure which is
susceptible of proof will al
ways attract attention anil
please the thoughtful reader.
Among the varied industrial
enterprises of the Post Office
Department in Washington is
an establishment devoted en
tirely to the manufacture of
mail locks and the bag at
tachments used in mail trans
portation. When this adminis
tration came into power, the
Department sorely needed an
improved type of mail lock.
The shop was immediately re
organized, placed on a busi
ness basis, and its activities
enlarged so as to meet the
imperative demand. Within a
very short time a new and
greatly improved lock had
been devised and its produc
tion begun.
The lock in use weighs 5Va
ounces; the new one weighs
2 4-5 ounces. As 430,000 of
this new product have been
put into service, the differ
ence in weight (the Govern
ment paying as much for the
weight of equipment as it does
for the mail itself) can be
easily calculated. The locks
replaced by this new and bet
ter style costs 21 cents each to
make; those now being man
ufactured cost 814 cents, di
rect and indirect charges con
sidered, the saving thus shown
on original cost of production
to date amounting to $53,750.
Of the old style, 30,000 were
annually returned for repair
at a cost of about 0 cents
each. Of the new style, out of
the great number sent into
service, but 906 have been re
turned, and as these new style
locks can be repaired at a cost
of 3 cents each, the annual
saving on this item will
amount to over $2,100.
The Department has in this
administration encouraged its
employees to give their best
service to the government and
many instances have recently
come to notice wherein the
Deartment has greatly profit
ed by this wise public policy.
In the lock shop a recent
achievement in this direction
is an improved cord fastener
the work of three of its em
ployees, for use on bags;also
one designed for lockinglarg
er quantites of parcel post
matter, which has heretofore
been without this protection.
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It can be made at a very low
price, requiring less material
and a fewer number of oper
ations. The significant part of
this lies in the great number
required in the service, be
tween three and four millions,
the output being 500,000 an
nually. As the cost has been
reduced by the new method
from 41/2 to 3 cents each, it
will be seen what a splendid
showing this makes for ad
ministrative economy.
Another valuable improve
ment has been the perfected
cord fastener designed for
use on tie sacks, something
which the Departmen t for
years has needed and vainly
endeavored to accomplish.
This device will be of great
value to the postal service at
large by increasing the capac
ity and efficiency of mail bags
to a degree difficult to esti
mate. The modern system of
business methods and the
proper encouragement of em
ployees to take an active and
earnest interest in their work,
both of which desirable feat
ures this administration of the
Department has favored and
put into practice, is responsi
ble for the many improve
ments made and the advan
tages gained.
Active experiments are con
stantly being made for the bet
terment of the service. For
many years a tremenduous
expense has been the label
ing of the immense quantity
of mail bags in use. The form
|of label used in the past and
still used by clerks all over
the country is the doubling
refolding of what is known as
a “facing slip.” The prepara
tion of these labels by the
thousands has been and is an
expensive proposition, yet
there appears to have been no
effort on the part of previous
administrations to progress
from the old method. Under
present direction a perforated
label in sheets and runs has
been designed which is prac
tically ready for use when fur
nished to employees. Even
postal clerk in the country and
thousands of post-office em
ployees will find this new
method of great advantage
and it will result in a large
economy in the service.
There have also been some
other notable improvements
made, viz., the substitution of
steel where brass was form
erly used, at a very consider
able lessening of expense; a
device for fastening foreign
mail pouches, doing away
with the old-fashioned meth
od of string and seal; a
scheme for saving twine by
means of a simple holder
which permits free and easy
use without waste, and a flex
ible stamp design, for which
the contract price was :S4
icents, but which will now be
made at a cost of but 8 cents.
A mechanical pickup or fac
ing table for use in facing and
stacking letters in first-class
post offices has also been de
veloped and will soon be per
fected. The device is consid
ered superior to those now in
use and costs less than one
third as much to manufacture.
Those at present in use cost
approximately $1,500.
It will thus be seen that the
activities of the Post Office
Department have been center
ed along lines which will not
only produce large economies
to the people of the country-,
out will also prove a great
convenience to those in the
service. During the past three
years two objects have been
kept constantly in view, viz
^vmg the public money
erever possible and serv
ing the people to the fullest
extent. I here was room for
tfreat improvement and there
has been much accomplished,
n is but common justice to
award due credit in these ad
ministrative reforms to the
fourth Assistant Postmaster
General, ,n whose Bureau
these measures of economy!
Ln 0pe,d and wh(> has
SO faithfully devoted his time
to that purpose.
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I have for sale the stock of
drugs owned by the estate of
J. I. Sturdivant, deceased
Also will rent the building in
which sail! stock of drugs are
now located.
A. A. HENDERSON,
„ Agent.
For Mrs. J. I. Sturdivant, FTxe
cutrix.
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GARLAND COUNTY
SHERIFF IS SLAIN
IN GUN BATTLE
Doc Phillips Who Once Resid
ed in Newark Kills Officer
.and is Then Slain by Citi
zens at Hot Springs
Hot Springs, July 10.—
Sheriff Charles C. Webb was
shot and instantly killed, and
Deputy Sheriffs Dave Young
and Henry Houpt were wound
ed early tonight by “Doc”
Phillips, 45 years old, of Dal
las, Tex., a self-styled “treas
ure hunter,” who turned mani
ac when an effort was made
to arrest him in a rooming
house. A posse of officers and
residents who gathered outside
fired 75 shots into the house.
Phillips was riddled with bul
lets and was dead when the
officers ventured into the
house.
The effort to arrest Phillips
followed complaints that he
was armed and was threaten
ing pedestrians who passed
the home of Mrs. Elizabeth
Sylvester, 905 East Grand ave
nue, where he ro-med. Sherili
Webb and his deputies went
to the house, accompanied by
Constable Downen. They saw
Phillips partly dressed, stand
ing at a window. A revolver
was strapped to his left side.
None of the officers was arm
ed and Sheriff Webb asked
Phillips to put up his gun and
surrender.
Phillips fired upon the sher
iff when he entered his room,
the bullet entering his head
and killing him instantly.
Deputy Sheriff Young, who
was behind the sheriff, was
shot in the groin, but he em
ptied his automatic gun at
Phillips.
Thinking Phillips had been
killed. Deputy Sheriff Houpt
entered the house and a shot
trom Phillips struck him in the
fleshy part of the thigh.
Reinforcements were sent
for, and as news of the shoot
ing' reached the downtown sec
tion, hundreds of people gath
ered. Silence in the house led
the officers to believe that
Phillips had been shot or prob
ably killed. The sheriff’s body
still was in the front room with
his slayer. Suddenly an auto
passed, and as suddenly a shot
from Phillips’ revolver follow
ed it.
I he resut was instantaneous.
More than a score of guns
flashed into hands of officers
and civilians and at least 75
bullets sped at the room from
whence came the shot. The
house was surrounded. After
a long period of silence, Dep
uty Sheriff Brown, Deputy
Sheriff Walz and James Row
les entered the house by a rear
door, anti crept toward the
death room. The sheriff lay
dead upon the floor and Phil
lips lay dead across a daven
port. He was hit half a dozen
times with revolver bullets and
Part of a charge from a shot
gun.
Phillips came here 10 weeks
ago from Dallas, according to
Mrs. Slyvester. He had money
but did odd .jobs at homes near
by.
DOC PHILLIPS ONCE
RESIDED IN NEWARK
Doc Phillips is said to have
resided in Newark for several
months a few years ago. He
came from nowhere in parti
rular, was a visonary sort of
fellow, claimed to be a “me
dium” or “spiritualist,” and
claimed to possess power for
locating hidden treasures. He
said his home was in Dallas,
Tex., and after working here
for some time, he went to
Fort Smith. Parties who knew
Phillips when he worked in
Newark say they are confi
dent he is the same Phillips
who was killed at Hot Springs
Monday.
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CONVICTION,NOT CONCEIT
“Isn’t your friend Wiseun
inclined to be just a little bit
conceited?”
Oh, not at all He iust
thinks his views are bound to
be right and everybody else’s
nearly certain to be wrong.
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MEASURE GIVEN OTHERS
WILL RETURN TO YOU
The following splendid
poem was recited by Miss Eth
el Fitch at the recent Child
ren’s Day services held at the
Mount Carmel church.
Another year of life has fled,
With all its joys and cares,
And time is still hastening on
Into its vale of years.
And as you now the past re
view,
Have you each promise kept?
Have you done what you
know is right.
Or has your conscience slept?
But it will wake perhaps too
late,
The truth will come to you,
That what you now to others
do
Will soon come home to you.
And will that truth bring joy
or pain,
To soothe declining years?
Or will the recollections bring
But only cause for tears?
Do not look for wrong or
evil—
You will find them if you do—
As you measure for your
neighbor
He will measure back to you.
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GRANDMA SAMMONS
DIES AT ADVANCED AGE
Grandma Sammons died at
her home here last Friday,
alter an illness of some time.
She was one of the oldest la
dies in this community, being
79 years and three months of
•ge at the time of her death
She is survived by one son
Boaz Sammons, and two
daughters, Mrs. Bob Grisham
and Mrs. R. F. Carleton.
The remains were buried
Saturday at Macedonia, Rev.
E. A. Horn conducting funeral
services.
NOTICE OF CURIA DRAIN
AGE DISTRICT TAXES
Notice is hereby given that
the tax books for Curia Drain
age District have been placed
in my hands, and that the tax
es for the year 1915 are now
due thereon. By order of the
Board of Directors the taxes
must be paid not later than
July 15, 1916, after which time
a penalty of 25 per cent, and
interest, will immediately at
tach. Payment can be made to
the undersigned or to the Citi
zens Bank & Trust Co., of
Batesville, Ark.
CHAS. F. COLE,
Collector.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THH
CONSTITUTION OP THE STATE
OP ARKANSAS.
Nolle* 1* hereby (Ivan that tha fol
lowing joint rasolutlon, proposing an
amanlnant to th* Stats Constitution
was passed by tha Oanaral Assembly
at Its regular session of 1915, and that
tha sansa will be submitted to the elec
tors of tha Stata at tha next general
election, to be held Tuesday. NoTember
7. 1116, for adoption or rejection.
Pr*s***6 Amendment Na. IA
That tha following Is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the Consti
tution of the Stata of Arkansas, which,
when agreed to by a majority of all
members elected to each house and
adopted by a majority of the electors
of the State voting at the next gen
eral election for senators and repre
sentatives. shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkansas:
Section 1. The county courts In
their respective counties. In addition to
the county tax now allowed to be lev
ied. shall have power when authorised,
as hereinafter provided, to levy an an
nual tax not exceeding three mills on
the dollar on all taxable property,
which ahall be collected and expanded
In making and repairing public roade
and brtdgea In their respective coun
tlea: and eald court ahall have power,
after authority given aa hereinafter
provided, to levy e tax not exceeding
three mllle on tha dollar on all taxabla
property for a period of time not to
exceed thirty year*, to borrow money,
laaue bonde. and pledge the revenuea
arising from the tax levied for a pe
riod ef time, to pay the Interest and
principal of any sum or sums eo bor
rowed All bonds tssusd by authority
herein given ahall bear a rata ef Inter
act not to exceed I per cent per annum.
All eunsa eo borrowed ahall be used ex
cluelvely In making and repairing the
public roade and bridges In the county.
The annual tax and the tax for period
of yeare ahall not both be levied and
be In foree at the same time In any
county—the levy of one ahall exclude
the levy of the ether.
Before any levy of taaea herein au
therlaed ahall be made, the question
of levying such tax shall bs submitted
to tbs qualified olsctors of tbs county
at a gsnsral or spaclal olactlon called
for that purpoaa. at whloh a majority
of tbs qualified slsctors voting at auch
aa olaotton ahall havo voted In favor of
such levy of taxbs.
Approved February I, 1911
The above resolution was filed In the
*■«* of the decretory of State on Feb
ruary i. ttii
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