Postmaster General Summerfield is still not satisfied and is full of plans for a new kind of electronic “speed mail” by which a letter can be flashed across the country in a matter of seconds. He says that although the letter must submit to being reproduced, the sanctity of the mail will be preserved, because “no one but the machine” will have a chance to read it. I have thought this over and am still undecided about letting a machine see my private correspondence. The modern machine is rapidly acquiring man’s characteristics, and nothing I have read lately has convinced me that machines are as closemouthed as we have always tended to think they are.