NEW MAIL BOX

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1938, Page 9

NEW MAIL BOX

STREAMLINED AND ARTISTIC. Urged by their chief, the American Postmaster General, Mi’ James A. Farley, to make their rural routes “not only institutions but ornaments to the countryside,” rural letter carriers from all over the country look with considered judgment upon a new streamlined mail box. The chief asset of the new box, said its inventor, Mr Adney Coleman, of Evergreen, Alabama, is that it has no door to stick. Press a finger on the rear of the contraption and the entire cover swings up and back. The cloor on the present boxes, Mr Coleman contends, is a nuisance. “It won’t stay open, it breaks off, it sticks, it squeaks,” says he. If he can get the rural mail men to put their stamp of approval on the box then he thinks the Post Office Department should give it a try. ] Delivering mail to country folk is an indispensable part of the New Deal because it “stands to elevate and I improve country life,” Mr Farley told the convention delegates. 3 He appealed to the mail men for j their co-operation in checking the v migration of youth from the country to the city by making farm life more attractive in every way. “Ag- 3 riculture conditions in this country t must.be improved and rural life made «■ attractive if we are to maintain our economic stability and preserve oui’ 'civilisation,” he declared.