The Dolores star., 1923-12-14

lo-7 the good tidlngs of great joy"-celebrates II
hiter the fashion of flesh and blood humanity both
cheer ~ ''' soo"
F6. F5 cnFistmas 9Fris,,a play and make good cheer
f'E CHRISTMAS Genes but a year.
lane your choice between this version and the
o. ta 80 uUoFe' In any event the good cheer" Is
an elastic phrase and covers a multitude of iovs-
ana multitude of activities as we'll Whv eyo,
the lew pictures used herewith suprast On o,,no.,
activities N o-'' '''ih'S
NOW theres our dear old Uncle Samuel Post
master for example He's a busy old ,entieno,
at all seasons of the year for he rms tho bj,nos,
business IN all the world. But at Christmas time,
iou see, the dear old postmasters official slogan
IS Deliver all Christmas mail by noon Decem
Der 24I" ' 'eee'n
so Uncle Sam, postmaster began last o.
tober to get ready for the Christmas rush u,
december he was all set and on his mark The
mali early campaigns of recent years have had
an apprecable effect upon the public and each sea-
son the professions to the post offices of the land
begin little earlier. Possibly the campaigns
against careless wrapping have also had some Of
Iect, put doht mention the subject, II you want
uncle POSTMASTER to continue to look pleasant
Also no matter how fervently you may wish for
white Christmas" don't let your Uncle know
apout IL For the snow that gladdens your heor,
means grief for Uncle Sam-the heavier tho fau
the greater the grief. Snow means delay in the
tast-hour deliveries of mail and adds like every.
thing to Uncles Christmas bill. Two years ago a
snow in New York City cost him $500 600 extra
for motor vehicle transport alone
Yes; Uncle Sam has Christmas bf-the same
as Dad Extra space ON the trains for the mails
costs MIN million or SO. Extra motor trucks
Soooooo; extra clerks, S1,OO0,OOO; additional car
rers, s35o,o00-these are some of the larger items
among the extras on his Christmas mail hill Tben
there are extra millions of money order blanks
extra millions Of stamps, miles of twine for re-
wrapping poory-ted packages, thousands Of
square feet Of emergency warehouse space and
hundreds Of other items However Uncle Sam
has the satisfaction of doing a whopping big mail
business; prob ably he takes In something like
SS,oOOoOO more in December than in any other
month. The American people-1O5 100000 of them
certainly do rush their postmaster hard at
Christmas time
The boys with the Christmas trees live AWAY nm
in the northeast corner of the United States
Buckport Center, Me. They helping to load
a car of trees and stopped minute "to have their
pictures took" And where do you suppose the
Christmas trees were going? Why, all the way to
farof Texas. And here's something to make one
do some thinking: 1t cost about 21h cents eacb
to cut and haul and load those trees. The Texan
VINO bought one of them probably paid all of S3
and maybe s4 No wonder the experts have much
to say about the middeman and the cost of dis
tribution Maybe some day Uncle Sam will tuke
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 thnned out anyway in the practice of sclen.
tfic forestry And this would save the denudnp
Of thousands of acres of private lands which need
the trees and the destruction of hundreds of thou
sands Of young which should be saved for
the future needs of the people Our nationwide
use of Christmas trees and "Christmas green's, Ia
fast despoiling our woodlands. The Wild Flower
Preservation Society of America, the Garden Club
OF America and scores of affiliated organizations
unite In pnraphrasing familiar quotation by saw.
ing our woodlands are being "butchered to make a
Lhristmas holiday"
Just the same. the picture of the little Moino
boys with their Christmas trees sets the mind to