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Uncle Sam Is Ready To Deliver Your Christmas Gifts-Are You? Mail Early! When Christmas comes around Uncle Sam faces his greatest re sponsibility in the tremendous de livery task for his army of mail men. But annually this job is carried through cheerfully, effi ciently and with elaborate prep aration. Yet, the final answer to this problem of delivering Christmas gifts before Christmas Day, rests on the sender—determined by the time the gift was bought and when it is mailed. This year, more than ever, mailing of Christmas gifts should be done as early as possible. There is good reason why "mail early" this Christmas becomes a Christmas slogan equally import ant as the traditional "shop ear ly" emphasis. Firstly, business conditions are improved, forecasting a greater measure of Christinas gift joy for more people, and correspondingly a heavier Christmas season. Secondly, the burden will be further increased because of the defense measures. With hun dreds of thousands of men par ticipating in America's defense mobilization, many of whom will be unable to return home for the holidays, mailing of gift packages to them adds a new delivery problem. Thirdly, the post office de partment faces a perplexing and difficult problem in the dispatching of gift packages to foreign lands. Every one of these problems can be more easily solved if send ers of Christmas gift packages will cooperate with the post of fice by mailing early. Gifts will be delivered to men in service anywhere in the coun BAD EYESIGHT ALONE CAN CAUSE 100*1 LOOK OLDER IWAN YOUR *6« CHECK YOUR EYES MOW—HAVE A SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION MAM W DR. W. B. REEVES OPTOMETRIST Office Over Elk Theatre PRICES THAT YOU CAN AFFORD ! MEN! YOU'LL FIND HANES UNDERWEAR ELKIN CLOTHING COMPANY HANES UNDERWEAR ICTH Belk-Doughton Co. "I used to feel like a sprinter in winter .. . half- V J bare in summer underwear. 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But all such mailings should be early, advises the post office. More than ever this year/, the post office is urging citizens to get their gift packages out early and their usual campaign begin ning on November 1, takes on added significance due to the factors mentioned above. Your link between the boys serving Uncle Sam in national defense and home is the post of fice. Gift senders will find happy co-operation from the mailmen in quick, cheerful service. The joy that such Yuletide ex pressions will bring is certain to infuse a heightened spirit and patriotic significance to these men. A Christmas gift package is a symbol of warmth and unity between the boys at camp and the folks at home. Mail them early. Down Alphabet Panhandler: "Lady, I've asked for money, begged for money, and cried for money—" Lady: "Did you ever try work ing for money?" Panhandler: "No, ma'am. I'm doing the alphabet and I ain't come to 'W' yet." Mate's Captain "Honey," said the new hus band to his bride, "do you earn estly believe I'll prove a satisfac tory mate?" "I think you'll do for a mate all right," replied his little girl. "And now just look me over and tell me what you think of your captain." The women of Germany are wearing "fur" coats made of feathers. Turkey feathers are sewed together and then lined. The material is color fast and does not lose its shape in rain. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA HOMESICKNESS, per haps, had brought him back. Old Peter Johansen buttoned his threadbare over coat, blew warm breath on his rough hands ahd Jumped to the ground. There was no railroad detective to grab him for riding that freight train, because this was the day be fore Christmas. All but the homeless, like himself, seemed busy preparing for the Day of Days. Forty years, Peter reflected, since he last set foot in Clark City. It had been a year after the big earth quake; a year after all hell broke loose, killing his parents and sis ter as they sat at dinner in the little house on Vine street Peter remembered: How he had come home late that evening; how the earth began quivering like a beast possessed; how he had Peter stood alone for a long time watching the star appear. searched like a madman through the ruins of that shock-wracked, fire-swept bungalow. Then, as Clark City began rebuilding, he had drift ed off in a daze to roam up and down the earth—a ne'er-do-well, a hobo! But always he remembered Linda, dear little sister Linda. In 40 years her memory always came back stronger than ever on Christmas Eve, for it was then that they used to climb Lookout Hill hand-in-hand at dusk, watching the evening star rise in the heavens. That, perhaps, was why he was back this Christmas Eve. "Almost dusk now," he reflected, trudging along Clark City's busy thoroughfare. Christmas crowds Jos tled him, for he was a hapless wan derer with no place to go. No place to go? Not Peter! Soon he found his way to the old resider*- tial district where Lookout Hill rose like a sentinel. "The same old hill," he told him self. "Little Linda! If you were only here now to see your big brother! No—thank God you're not here, for your big brother is ashamed of him self!!" At the crest Peter stood alone for a long time, watching the star ap pear as it had since that first night over Bethlehem. He didn't notice the old lady until she spoke. "Beautiful, that star, isn't it?" Peter fumbled with his grease stained cap. "Yes'm, it is. Especially from Lookout Hill." "Many years ago," she continued, almost in a trance, "my little broth er and I used to watch that star rise in the heavens each Christmas Eve, until—" (she wiped a tear away)—"we were separated some how during the big earthquake. He was killed, they found out later. "Each Christmas Eve ever since I've come back here, just to remem ber him. I hope he's happy up there in Heaven." Peter was staring at her, fairly ready to shriek, for it was Linda! No doubt about it, now! He recognized the tilt of her nose, unchanged by the years; the famil iar ring of a voice that somehow had failed to grow old. But he held himself back, for Peter was ashamed of himself. She didn't notice him shuffle off after awhile, for Linda was still watching the star. In the freight yards he found an empty boxcar and bedded down un der some straw in a corner. After a while he felt the car move, and somehow he was glad. "Yes, it was Linda," he sobbed to himself, "but I Just couldn't tell her. Thank God she's alive and happy. And Thank God she re members me on Christmas eve at I was, not as I am." After awhile he fell asleep. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Cakes Printed In Germany A famous Christmas cake in Ger many is Aachen Printen, from which the English word "print" is derived. In the days before book-printing the idea of imprint belonged to the bak ing business to express the making of patterns in cakes. Many of these cakes have figures representing the old gods Wotan and Thor. Santa May Not Smoke Cigars Santa Claus, perhaps, doesn't smoke—or he would be better in formed on the quality of cigars. Here's a Special Message For All Husbands c This little piece is directed mainly to husbands who might be a bit timid about considering something very practical rather than only glamorous, as a gift for their wives this Christmas. There is no longer any need for being timid about giving her—say a refrigerator, or a range, or even a washing machine or an electric iron. When modern household appli ances come to mind as possibili ties for the husband to give to his wife, Mr. Man has really got something there. Wh%t the mod ern household appliances make possible in the way of giving, is year-round relief for woman from old-fashioned household drudgery. The modern electric range, for example, may be had equipped with automatic controls which / ''^ ieS s °' t0 * 1 ' OO ijpj^^il|j|Will Pajamas SI.OO to Robes $2.50 to $3.50 ymßSk®' PLENTY OF FREE GIFT BOXES El'Wi HHk ) ' FOR OUR CUSTOMERS MM\5 Belt and Buckle Sets SI.OO to $2.00 I Sweaters $1.95 to $3.95 Alligator Raincoats $5.75 to $26.50 USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN! I A small deposit will hold any article until Christmas. J^m m§W Come in and select gifts today. Elkin Clothing Co. ~ QUALITY MEN'S WEAR Gloves SI.OO to $3.50 Fred Sale Phone 361 Zimmie Tharpe enable the housewife to put her things In the oven, set the dials to whatever the cooking require ments may be, leave the house and enjoy the afternoon, while the range does all the work to perfection, without endless watching.* The newest refrigerators have, among many other features, cold storage compartments which en able the housewife to take advan tage of bargain days in the food world, thus cutting down her shopping time, and saving more pennies than you think, for the household budget. ' The washing machine and the electric ironer of today are not only effort eliminating and mon ey-saving household appliances, but they also have been designed with so excellent a sense of beau ty that leaves the laundry as pre sentable upstairs, as well as in the basement. The electric iron of this era is a streamlined automatic device, sometimes equipped with air cooled handles, and almost al ways equipped with controls that take half the physical labor out of finishing things from the fam- ily laundry which Mrs. Housewife refuses to let anyone else touch. Last in Can Auto Salesman: "It runs so smoothly you can't feel it, so quietly you can't hear it, has such perfect ignition you can't smell it, and for speed—you can't see it.". Englishman: "How do you know the thing is there?" Read Tribune Advertisements! Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. 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