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Checks for Millions Here Daily
By George Kennedy
Roy M. North, Washington’s new
postmaster (subject to Senate con
firmation) is a soft-spoken Georgiar
who has been responsible for tht
money end of one of the biggest
businesses in the world.
While the reporters was talking to
him yesterday, an assistant brought
in a check for him to sign. It was
for $31,284,209.27. It was payable
to the Treasury and was to balance
drafts by postmasters to pay- money
orders. This balancing payment is
made daily. He signed it in his
capacity of Deputy Third Assistant
Postmaster General.
Chairman Langer of the Senate
Post Office and Civil Service Com
mittee today ordered hearings on
the nomination. But he said before
any action was taken on the nom
ination he wanted a “full and com
plete investigation” of “certain ac
tions on the part of various officials
of the Post Office Department.”
BIDCommnm n»nreu.
Senator Langer said he intended
to ascertain whether Mr. North had
any connection with these actions.
He appointed himself. Senator
Ecton, Republican, of Montana, and
Senator O’Daniel, Democrat, of
Texas, as a subcommittee, and said
hearings would begin early next
week.
Senator Langer said there was
“incompetence and avoidance of
civil service laws” in the manage
ment of the Post Office Department
and that the committee wanted to
determine what, if any, connections
Mr. North may have had with these
management questions.
Until recently deputies in the
postal service have been career men
responsible for operations under
political appointees responsible for
policy. Now career men like Mr.
North are holding jobs, that for
merly went to politicians. The
Postmaster General, Jesse Don
aldson, is a career man and so is
one of his assistants.
Recalls Biggest Check.
“What was the biggest check you
ever signed ” Mr. North was asked.
“There was one to the Treasury for
War Bonds sold by postmasters for
$125,000,000,” he said. “That was a
big check.”
He has been the deputy to the
third assistant since May, 1933—a
15-year period of great expansion.
When he came to the Job, the total
revenues of the Post Office were
$500,000,000. They are now about
$1 500,000,000. Postal savings were
about $1,000,000,000 in 1933. They
are now about $3,500,000,000.
He never has the bank teller’s
satisfaction in actually handling the
long green, however. He hasn’t even
a petty cash account in his office.
He gave up golf when he came to
Washington. During the war he
started a Victory Garden in a
community plot in Bethesda to
which he drives from his home at
2501 Calvert street N.W. He still
keeps it up.
Wanted to Be Ball Player.
Mr. North’s ambition, when he
was young, was to be a professional
baseball player—he was first base
man for the Senoia (Ga.) team—or
to go to Annapolis. His parents
discouraged him on both.
“Their idea of the Navy was gath
ered largely by seeing young fellows
return to the town, after serving a
hitch, with mermaids tatooed on
their forearms,” he said. “It rep
resented evil.”
So, when he was an undergraduate
at Emory College, he took an exami
nation for railway mail clerk and
passed.
One of his duties as the third
deputy was to take up with the
President the design of commemo
rative stamps. He was greatly im
pressed with President Roosevelt’s
knowledge of so many things. The
President told him the design for a
commemorative stamp on Rear Ad
miral Richard E. Byrd’s flights was
wrong—that Admiral Byrd had
crash-landed at the end of his
trans-Atlantic flight farther north
on the shore of the Bay of Biscay
than was indicated by dotted lines
on the map in the stamp s aesign.
Mr. North checked, and the Presi
dent was right.
Suggested Three Graces.
‘‘Then there was the stamp on
inter - American relations,” Mr.
North said. “President Roosevelt
suggested the three graces. I found
on checking that most of the old
masters had done the three graces.”
A note of amazement came into
Mr. North’s voice as he described
the Rubens’ three graces. "It was
a cinch that couldn’t go on any
United States stamp,” he said. “I
told the President that all the three
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