Note 422 — III THE RATE FOR PARCELS

Mr. S. Norvell: "I found the conditions in Europe very much worse than I had anticipated. I found the way the people lived was entirely different from what I had anticipated, and no man who has simply lived in this country and has read in a general way about the conditions in Europe can appreciate how the people live in Europe without going among them and studying the subject. The business of Europe, while in the aggregate, of course, it is very large, as a matter of fact is a peanut business."—Hearings before the Sub-Committee on Parcel Post, Washington, 1912, vol. ii. p. 496. Cf. Address at Atlantic City, N.J., 16th November 1911.