Staff's Effort to Prevent the Disintegration of Service By Hoon Aeriur Rerxs The gesture of annoyance that|stance of the bickerings must greet the news of a Post Office strike should "pot prevent one's giving due consideration to the underlying factors in the situa thy the country, and if the officers and staff of the Bank are shifted with institution should protest. volubly.
It has been said that "the ing" of w part of the foreign star in responsible for the disintegration but in truth it is not s0, for under its former organisation' the chinese staff was in efficiency and integrity equal to the foreign staff, and moreover of the foreign. staff the most efficient were retained, though their "powers" were un: fortunately too much curtailed, The intrusion of the politicians with their control of the funds is what has, to be ated. The "profits" of the Postal Bonk were and are eared by the Post for "all money orders transaetions though done in the Post Office fare ascribed to the Bank, Moreover a portion of the profit is an one due to the recdisation of substantial foreign balances built up by the Post Office in pro perous years for meeting _international mail carriage accounts.
The Post Office "exchequer" ig the wid be borne by the "specials tive" public which, in every. cou try, in the world, does that "donkey" work in exchange for the promise of possibly very large pro-its in years to come, the governtient oF its Post Office department, erelysubsidising such enter: Prien' to a limited extent. Neither foreign speculators nor. politicians to "endanger enterprise the class of government For the eficiency and integrity of Post Office it is absolutely exsentthat the staff should have security of employment and regular ay, as the-changes of speculation in public service of that nature are enormous, and the repercussion of such upon the machinery of trade. a ruinous, Under the Nine Power reaty China gave a pledge to main.
efficient postal service, and {ternational true Chinese in view of the in-
Tously ave implications of that treaty which would give rise to any claim that Jshe has herself impinged on it and that things nave so changed that {the treaty is inapplicable, The recent talk about the illegality of this and that is but an in-that have been going on, and of the way in which many desirable developments have been held up. No parties to retained his great affection for the [country of his career. He continued {o act the role of mentor but never that of Cassandra, "He was a great nan, moved with great men and was not overwhelmed by' them, mor did hho make of his greatness 'a barrier to the approach of mediocrity. oF aspiring youth. So long as he was hot expected to, suffer fools gladly, hho was ready always, to. unbend, hive the benefit of his experience fand to listen to views which might te different from his own. ScoUlnnd and the British Empire are the poorer to-day by his passing.
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