The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-12-07

1928 the good tidings of great joy-celebrates It
after the fashion Of flesh and blood humanity both
with religious observance and with material good
cheer.
AT Christmas play and make good cheer
For Christmas GENES but year.
Take your choice between this version and the
one usee above IN any event the good cheer Is
an elastic phrase and covers multitude of joys
and multitude of activities as WE'LL Why even
the few pictures used herewith suggest an almost
endless chain Of Christmas cheer and Christmas
activities
Now. there's our dear old Uncle Samuel Post
master. for example. He's a busy old gentleman
at all seasons of the year, for he runs the biggest
business In NIL the world. But at Christmas time.
You see. the dear old postmaster's official slogan
is. Deliver all Christmas mail by noon. Deem
ber 24r e ~
So Uncle Sam. as postmaster, began last oc.
tober TO get ready for the Christmas rush. BY
December | he was all set and. on his mark. The
mail early" campaigns of recent years have had
an appreciablc effect upon the public ana each
son the professions to the post offices Of the land
begins> "A little earlier. Possibly rlie campaigns
against careless wrapping have also had some eff
feet, but don't mention the subject, If you want
Uncle Postmaster 10 continue to look pleasant
Also, no matter how feryently you may wish for.
a white Christmas" don't let your Uncle know,
about it. For the snow that gladdens your heari
means grief for Uncle Sam-the heavier the fall.
the greater the grief. Snow means delay in the
last-hour deliveries of mail and adds like every
thing to Uncles Christmas BILL Two years ago
snow in New York City cost him 100000 extra
for motor vehicle transport alone.
& Yes; Uncle Sam. has a Christmas bill--the' same
as Dad Extra space the trains for the mails
costs him a million or SO. Extra motor trucks.
100000; extra clerks, $1000.000 additional car
riers, $350.000-these some of the larger items
among the extFasNon his Christmas mail bill. Then
there are extra millions Of money order blanks.
extra millions Of stamps miles of Irvine for re-
wrapping poorly-tied packages thousands of
square feet of emergency warehouse space apd
hundreds Of other items. However. Uncle Sam
has the satisfaction of doing whipping big mail
business; probably he takes In something like
$SO0O00O more in December than in any other
month. The American people-105 100000 of them
Certainly do. rush their postmaster hard at
Christmas time
The boys with the Christmas trees live away up
in the northeast corner of the United States
Buckport Center. Me-. They were helping to load
a car Of trees and stopped minute ITO have their
pictures took" And where do you suppose the
Christmas trees were going? Why. all the way to
far-off Texas And here's something to make one
do some thinking: II cost about 2h cents each
to cur and haul and lead those trees. The Texan
who bought one of them probably paid all Of 49,
and maybe S4 No wonder the experts have much
to say about the middlenan and the cost of dis
sfIbution Maybe some day Uncle Sam will take
this Christmas tree business into his own hands
and furnish the trees for the whole country from
the national forests These national forests have
TO be thinned out anyway In the practice Of scien
thc forestry And this would save the denuding
of thousands of acres Of private lands which need
the trees and the destruction of hundreds of thou
sands Of young trees which should be saved for
the future needs of the people. Our nationwide
use Of Christmas trees and christmas green's. Is
| fast despoiling our woodlands. The VIVID Flower
PRESERVATION Society Of America, the Garden Club
I II Amerioa and scores of affiliated organizations
ante In paraphrasing familiar quotation by say
/ ing our woodlands are being ebutchered to make a
Christmas holiday ySp8d9 =
| Just the same. the picture Of the little No
| Toys with tbeir Chrstmalr