The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-12-13

lake your choice between this version and the
one used above. In any event the good cheer" Is
an elastic phrase and covers a multitude of lows
ana a multitude of activities as well. WHY, even
ne rev 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
a. di seasons or the year, for he runs the biggest
BUSINESS IN all the world. But at Christmas time
You see, the dear old postmaster's official slogan
is' Deliver all Christmas mail by noon. Decem-
Der PAP
So Uncle Sam, as postmaster. began last Or.
topef TO get ready for the Christmas rush. nv
December | he was all set and on his mark Tho
mail early campaigns of recent years have had
an appreciate effect upon the public ana each sea.
son the professions to the post offices of the lanj
begin a little earlier. Possibly the campaigns
against careless wrapping have also had some eff
tect, put dont mention the subject, if you wanf
Uncle Postmaster TO continue to look pleasant.
Also, no matter how fervently YOU NAV wish fo,
a white Christmas" don't let your Uncle know
about it. For the snow that gladdens your hearr
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 Uncle's Christmas bill. Two years ago a
snow In New York City cost him 100000 extra
for motor vehicle transport alone.
LES, CHce sam mas q CHRISTMAS bfll-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, $350,000-thes 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-
peorly-tied packages, thousands of
square feet OF emergency warehouse space and
hundreds of other items. However, Uncle Sam
has the Satisfaction Of 6Oinp q whoppinu br mo;
probably he takes in something like
s8,00O,0O 1hore in December than in any other
month. The American people-105, OO0,O 900 of them
do rush their postmaster hard at
time.
The boys with the Christmas trees live away up
n the northeast corner of the United States
Stockport Center, Me. They were helping to load
car of trees and stopped a minute ito have their
pictures took" And where do you suppose the
trees were going? Why, all the way to
ar-off Texas. And here's something TO make one
10 some thinking: 1t cost about 21s cents each
0 cut and haul and lead those trees. The Texan
vho bought one of them probably paid all of SO,
nd maybe $4. No wonder the experts have much
o say about the middleman and the cost of dis
Maybe some day Uncle Sam will take
his Christmas tree business into his own hands
nd furnish the trees for the whole country from
he national forests. These national forests have
o be tbinned out anyway in the practice of scien-
ifc forestry. And this would save the denuding
f thousands of acres of private lands which need
he trees and the destruction of hundreds of thou
ands of young trees which should be saved for
he future needs of the people. Our nationwide
Sc Of Christmas trees and christmas green's" is
lst despoiling our woodlands. The Wild Flower
reservation Society of America, the Garden Club
f America and scores of affiliated organizations
in paraphrasing a familiar quotation by say
lg our woodlands are being "butchered to make q
holiday"
Just the same, the picture of the little Maine
oys with their Christmas trees sets the mind to