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Post Office, Politics
Separation Advised
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP).
ciency and militates against the in-
The Hoover Commission said Thurs-
centive of promotion."
day that Congress should take the
The commission said the depart-
Post Office Department out of
ment's revenue has climbed from
politics.
$38,000 in 1790 to more than $1,300,-
Recommending a wholesale re-
000,000 a year but is currently op-
organization to put the postal serv-
erating at a deficit.
ice on a "business-like" basis, the
It placed the 1948 deficit at
commission proposed:
$310,000,000, or 22 per cent of its
1. The Postmaster General re-
total income, and estimated the
main in the Cabinet, subject to
figure would climb above $500,-
Senate confirmation, but he should
000,000, or more than 30 per cent,
not be "an official of a political
this year.
party, such as chairman of a na-
tional committee."
(Jesse M. Donaldson, the present
Postmaster General, came up from
the postal ranks and is the first one
in years who has not also served
as chairman of the Democratic or
Republican National Committees.)
2. As far as possible, postmasters
should be selected by top postal
officials from candidates on Civil
Service lists "in consultation with
community leaders." The require-
ment of Senate confirmation should
be abolished for postmasters.
The bi-partisan commission,
headed by former President Her-
bert Hoover, said in its fourth re-
port on government streamlining
that needed reorganization could
well start with an agency that has
grown in 159 years into one of "the
world's largest business organiza-
tions."
It said its operations are ham-
strung by an obsolete and over-
centralized administrative set-up
and by a maze of outmoded laws,
regulations and traditions which
freezes progress and stifles proper
administration.
The problem is further compli-
cated, it said, by "political appoint-
ment of first, second and third-
class postmasters and certain other
officials (which) produces ineffi-
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