Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, said today in a Senate speech that new second class postal rates for religious instruction publications are “confiscatory” and he introduced a bill to reduce such rates.
The Senator said the effect of the postal rate increase was to elevate the cost of classroom publications used by the various faiths in churches and synagogues. “These publications are in enough financial difficulties,” he stated. “The enormous increase of rates would put many of them out of business and thus deprive thousands of dedicated Sunday school teachers of valuable tools of instruction.” He asked other Senators to join in co-sponsoring his measure.
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