A Chicagoan complained last week to onetime New York State Senator John A. Hastings, now lobbying in Washington for adoption of "postalized" railroad fares (TIME, Jan. 16), that a train fare of $1 from New York to Chicago would enable his mother-in-law to visit him more often. Virtually every railroad authority from the roads themselves to the Interstate Commerce Commission had equally emphatic objections. But because of the blare of publicity ICC felt obliged to recognize the proposal and, in a tone of we'll-look-into-it-if-you-insist, suggested to Senator Burton Wheeler that Congress order an ICC investigation of the idea.
Postalization would divide the...
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