That is my opinion. That opinion is based upon a “broad, general and _comprehensive_ view”--a ladder-top view--“of the whole question in its various and varying details,” as one _anti_-parcels post spouter has spouted. I have presented but _four_ statements of fact. A score of others will readily appear to any reader who does his own thinking. But take any one of the four above given and study its significance for just _one minute_. Have you done so? “Yes?” Well, then you see the joke--or the “joker”--in the _anti_-parcels post talk and literature, do you not? You will also be able to make a close guess as to _who are financially backing_ the public-bubbling _opposition_ to any legislation for the improvement of our parcels post service. If you cannot, I advise you to go to some jokesmith and have the gaskets and packings on your think-tank tightened up. John Wanamaker was a great merchant. He was a brainy business man and, to a large extent, did his _own thinking_. He was, for a term of years, Postmaster General of the United States. Mr. Wanamaker was likewise a man of broad, comprehensive and _comprehending_ humor. He could crack or take a joke. In either event, the kernel was separated from the shell quickly. Here is one of Mr. Wanamaker’s jokes: Years ago, when Mr. Wanamaker was Postmaster General, John Brisbane Walker asked him why the American people stood for the existing parcels post outrage. Mr. Walker believed the American people were quick, _judgmental_ thinkers and _swift_ in remedial action when thought reached the conclusion that the _thinker was being victimized_. Mr. Walker was right--_is_ right. American people do think. The trouble is that too many of us are _coupled into train with the wrong kind of thinkers_. We are switched or shunted onto any side-track or yarding the engineer, the conductor or the _traffic manager_ desires. We simply _think_ we think, while really we are merely following a _steer_. But I digress. To Mr. Walker’s question, Mr. Wanamaker made this reply: “It is true that parcels could be carried at about _one-twelfth_ their present cost by the Postoffice Department, but you do not seem to be aware that there are four _insuperable obstacles_ to carrying parcels by the United States Postoffice Department. The first of these is the _Adams Express Company_; the second is the _American Express Company_; the third is the _Wells-Fargo Express Company_; and the fourth, the _Southern Express Company_.” Of course there are several more “insuperable obstacles” to an improvement in our parcels post service. There is the previously mentioned “big six” obstacles with the railroads, now as when Mr. Wanamaker spoke, _owning or controlling them all_.