The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-07

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1923 the good tidingS of great CARBOHYDRATES 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 once a year.
Take your choice between his version and the
one used above. In any event the good cheer Is
m elastic phrase and covers a multitude Of Joys
and a 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
ut all seasons Of the year, for he runs the biggest
business in all the world. But at Christmas time!
You see, the dear old postmasters official slogan
is, Deliver all Christmas mail by noon. Deem
Der DAT
SO Uncle Sam, as postmaster. began last DC.
tober to get ready for the Christmas rush. By
December l he was all set and on his mark. The
mail early" campaigns OF recent years have had
an appreciable effect upon the public and each sea.
son the professions to the post offices Of the land
begin a little earlier. Possibly the campaigns
against careless wrapping have also had some eff
feet, but don't mention the subject, IL you want
Uncle Postmaster to continue to look pleasant.
Also, no matter how fervently you may wish for
a white Christmas don't let your Uncle know
about 1t. For the snow that ~gladdens your heart
means grief for Uncle Sam-the heavier the fall
tine greater the grief. Snow means delay in the
last-hoIy deliveries OF mail and adds like every
thing to Unce's Christmas bill. Two years ago a
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 on the trains for the mails
costs him a million or so. Extra motor trucks.
100000; extra clerks, 81. 100000; additional car
riers, $~35O,OOO-these are some Of the larger items
among the extras on 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 and
hundreds OF other items. However, Uncle Sam
has the satisfaction OF doing q ~whopping big mail
business; probably he takes In something like
10000 more in December than in any other
month. The American OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of them
certainly do rush their postmaster hard at
Christmas time.
The bows 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 a 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: 1t cost about 2k cents each
10 en-, and haul and lead those trees. The Texan
who bought one Of them probably paid all Of So
and maybe 81. No wonder the experts have much
20 say about the middleman and the cost of dis
.ribulion. Maybe some day Uncle Sam will take
this Christmas tree business into his own hand!
and furnish the trees for the whole country from
the national forests. These national forests have
20 be thinned out anyway In the practice Of scien
tidc forestry. And this would save the %denudini
of thousands of acres OF private lands which neet
the trees and the destruction Of hundreds of thou
sands of young trees which should be saved 70
the future needs Of the people. Our nation wild
use OF Christmas trees and christmas greens" !
fast despoiling our woodlands. The Wild Flowe
preservation Society of America. the Garden Gu
Of America and scores Of affiliated organization
unite in paraphraslng a familiar quotation by say
ing our woodlands are being "butchered to make
Christmas holiday"
lust the same, the picture Of the little Main
9oys with their Christmas trees sets the mind (