CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
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Office of Postmaster General,
Washington, Dec. 9, 1921.
To the Boys and Girls of the U. S.:
Christmas is almost here.
Your great Post Office Department
has a big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think what it means to be Santa
Claus to our 100,000,000 people and
to deliver Christmas parcels to every
family in this great country within
the short space of a few days and
without disappointment.
It can be done, and we’re going to
do it if we may have your help. I
want to enlist the active assistance
of every boy and girl in the schools
of our country in getting parcels
mailed this week to relieve the rush
that comes directly before Christmas.
Will you go home today and take
this message to your parents and
friends:
“Our postmaster has asked us to
mail our Christmas parcels this week,
for, unless we do. Uncle Sam’s load
may be so heavy the last few days
before Christmas that he won’t be
able to deliver all the presents by
Christmas eve.”
The parcels must be well wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly, in or
der that they may arrive in good con
dition with their Christmasy appear
ance unspoiled. You can put on your
packages, “Do not open until Christ
mas.”
And, there must be a number on
your house and a mail receptacle, too,
for, if there isn’t, Santa Claus’s mes
senger, your letter carrier, may not
be able to find the house where the
presents belong.
There are some other things, too, in
which you can all assist in improving
the mail service and in saving our
great Government millions of dollars
a year that is now wasted because
of our carelessness—yours and mine.
Every day that you drop a letter in
the mail box 40,000,000 other letters
are already pushing and jamming
through the postal machinery. One
letter a day for each family of five
persons in the United States is giv
en to Uncle Sam to deliver.
When you send a parcel to the
post office for mailing any day there
are about 8,000,000 other parcels
ahead of yours passing through the
postal hopper. This is in ordinary
days; at Christmas time it is multi
plied many times.
One family in about every ten puts
a badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mixes up over 2,
000,000 half addressed letters with
the 20,000,000 fully addressed letters.
That means that the fully addressed
letters must wait on the slow" moving
poorly addressed letters, just like the
larger boys and girls are delayed by
a bunch of “bad kids” tagging along.
You boys and girls can help the
Postal Service and save your father
some money, because he has to help
pay the cost of searching addresses
on letters and parcels sent out by
this careless and thoughtless in
every ten.
Pirst find out if your family is the
careless one, then bear in mind that
your letters must be handled by skill
ed mail distributors standing in post
offices and on swaying postal cars of
a mile-a-minute mail trains, often un
der poor light.
The addresses on every letter, card,
or package must be correct, complete,
and legible, including the house num-
er and name of street, and the
From address should be in the up
per left-hand corner so that the mail
will be returned to you in case it is
not delivered. Do not abbreviate
names of States, because so many
look alike when abbreviated.
Put the proper amount of postage
on your letters and wrap the par
cels carefully. Avoid fancy writing,
which causes post-office clerks and
carriers to stop and study, and thus
lose time. Make the address plain
and easily read, and always use pen
and ink or typewriter and light-
colored envelopes, so as to save the
eyes of the post-office clerks. Do
not use envelopes of unusual size. The
little ones that are so frequently used
for cards and notes at Christmas and
other holiday times cause an untold
amount of trouble and labor, as they
will not fit our cancelling machines
and must therefore be cancelled by
hand. Because of their size and ten
dency to slip out of a package, these
small envelopes are more likely to be
overlooked or lost.
Mail your letters and packages
early in the day, because this avoids
overloading and delaying mail at the
end of the day.
Your local postmaster and your
teachers will tell you more about the
Postal Service.
Do these things, and you will win
the grateful appreciation of the peo
ple in your post office and especially
of Your Postmaster General,
WILL H. HAYS.
CONDITIONING DOGS TO SHOW
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lously clean. Dogs should never be
allowed to sleep on concrete floors in
cold or ordinarily cool weather. A
removable floor of wood should be
placed over the concrete. If these
rules are adhered to, disease is un
likely to be a visitor.
Under the head of “Kennel,” wash
ing and caring for the dog’s coat is
properly placed. Setters should not
be washed—that is, scrubbed with
soap and water—too frequently. The
setter is naturally neat. If properly
fed, watered and exercised, he is
naturally in perfect condition, and his
fine silky coat glistens. When fitting
him to show, and to encourage the
growth of his fine and beautiful fea
ther, frequent brushing with a mod
erately stifle brush is advisable, fol
lowed by a hand massage. When rub
bing down a setter, nothing equals
the human hand to flatten the hair
and produce that glistening coat. Or
a generous fragment of an abandoned
silk petticoat makes a capital rubbing
cloth.
Many owners attending shows pro
vide their dogs with blankets in cold
weather. The writer has found, how
ever, that while the coat is kept flat
and perhaps cleaner by blanketing,
this advantage is more than offset by
annoyance to the dog, and the danger
of colds if it should by accident be
left off. The properly constructed and
carefully bedded travelling crate is
the dog’s best blanket.
This brings us to the point where
the owner or handier starts the can
didate for field trial honors, or en
ters the ring at the bench show. We
wave him adieu. May good luck at
tend him. NOBLESTONE.
We see a story in an exchange
where a woman used a telephone for
the first time in 80 years. She must
be on a party line like the one in Vass.
Renew your subscription now.
HARRY R. IHRIE
Lawyer
CARTHAGE. N. C.
Southern Pines Office
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but all may be Thrifty, and
Thrift will in time pro-
duce a competency.
THE BANK OF VASS
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