Stirred Up The Dry Bones

The article in last week's Reg ister elative to the removal of the postoliic1 seetns to have given the owner of the building; now occupied by the Ann A rbor post office asevere, nervous shock. As a result the Courier devoted a half column to the subject howing how perfectly absurd it was or anybody to even think of a change of location of the Ann Arbor post office. Among other things the Courier says "Of course people having a self ish interest in the matter, who would desire to have their own property enhanced in value regardless of the effect upon the balance of the city will probably never eease to agitate this matter." A disinterested person would have a hard tima to persuade himself that it is not more kelfisb on the part of the Courier to urge that the post office remain off at one side of the city than it is selfish for others to want it located more centrally. The Courier also stretches a point almost to where it will break vvheu it 9tates that the post office has always been located in a fadng the court house square. A great many years of that time it was located in the rear part of such a building and, as a re sult, was nearly a block f rom the court house square. There can be no question that a removal of the postoffice to Washington-st. would not benefit properity in the vicinity of the present location of the office. A question of eqvial, if not much more importance is: Would a removal of the postoffioe to Washington-st. materially benefit the property holders on that street as some of them seem to think? We be. lieve that it would take but little effort to convince the business men in the city that it would not. As it is now loeated all the people in the south, southeast and Southwest portions of the city are obliged to pass the large majority of the business houses in the city to reach the postoffice. It is these parts of the city that are making the most rapld growtb. Ten years from now, judging from the past ten years, at least four - fifths of Ann Arbor will be south of Huron-st. It such poves to be the case, as itcertainly will,it will most assuredly be to the interest ot the stores between Huron and Liberty-sts. to have the post office north of them so that threefourths of the citizens will find it neces" sary to pass all these places of business vhen the post office as every citizen has frequent occasion to do. The Courier would have made itself much less ridiculous had it taken some such position and said less about people being selfssli.