Proper Postmen

A deputation of British letter carriers doffed their blue caps and presented a petition at the office of the Postmaster General last week. During the hot weather the British postmen desired permission to wear their shirts "open at the neck."

Britain's Postmaster General is Clement Richard Attlee, onetime Mayor of Stepney, onetime Major of the South Lancashire Regiment, and a loyal Laborite. But in the matter of letter carriers' decolletage Postmaster General Attlee is a Major first, then a Laborite. Last week he denied the petition of the perspiring postmen.

"Neckties," ruled the P. G., "are indispensable for upholding the proprieties of British dress."

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