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Show BEAVER PRESS Sally Sez X I VX ? I teS!" airmail N il ) eMy&rrz Q7) V 1 V. ApprOXI- - X frMrfury Thrs Timet A Fdlt J ' V V "j r VI3 At . a -- 1 VV Presence IJ " jfl AC L or -- 1W LTV jTTir mak. AL (Ti) routes 1 Y'cnX' rNl VWI"" '"'""' Chicago -- ) Vf'fex w.Vg J'." ' w - V" Approsimately too eltlee la 42 etatee have 0rectV V xrrio uid practically every Ul 0a'7' eonneetlone. Tin rMCB,d rourh plane-ra- il ajMuWuvaAlBJ plants flying ore the mtwork shown heretrarel tS.OOO milee d.lly carryine 1,000,000 Utter. f Figure, in f.lU"f " VtW v tePllillliilllilW "tMl:3e-t::v;:';:-::::- tlKISTMAS morning dawned cold and clear. Over field and farmhouse and winding roads, was a snowy blanket. unnstmas weain- "sskV "uooa I , t I .. l a ci i sum jurm ilit.. tgwu, on he stamped In from the post office, and thumped a bundle of letters on the kitchen table. He was regarding his wife from a watchful eye, for he had noted a letter from Caroline, their daughter. Jared went out to his car to bring Id the Christmas packages. He saw his wife's pretty, wrinkled face bent over a long letter in Caroline's handwriting, as he closed the door. Of course It was natural for their only child to desire other friends nnd it would be pokey indeed to come home to eat Christmas dinner with two old people! And there wus Pilly Wake-man- , too. She used to go around with Now they had quarreled and Billy. Billy was very grave and grown up In the conduct of his public garage. He had a good mind to go down and ask Billy to come and eat Christmas dinner with them Billy had no folks of bis own. Forgetting all about the Christmas packages In the back of his sleigh-- Mr. Pigeon Jumped In and. turning around In the hard way be had dug out of the snow, went tingling out of the yard and down the road toward the large garage and oil and gas station that Billy Wakeman had built on the main road. "Hello. Mr. Pigeon," said Billy, "Merry Christmas!" "Same to you," returned Jared Pigeon, "1 came over after you, Billy Wakeman." "What can 1 do for you?" asked vm V I. Given C T Billy. "Come and eat dinner with ma and me 1 kinder expect Caroline ain't coming down." "Thank you," said Billy getting very i ' K i TdMtfli... !,. rrindaUn ttaiiw tk U. Whkfe mmkm tMi Brine, 'notb tk tkr, Worth wkU; 'Ik to A fcoiptae- - Wad to help friend. friend . br ror Hlp PATRONIZE HOME INDUTEY. la ltk M. Famous Chestnut Tree Bath, in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, is a trea traced directly to Washington. It is considered the largest horsa chestnut tree in the state, and is said to have been sent from Mount Vernon by Washington to General Brown, one of his aides. Near YOUR DRUGGIST FOR ASK APEX INTEBMOUNTAIN AN PRODUCT Historic Sharon Sharon is derived from a Hebrew word meaning "the tplain". Sharon extends from Jaffa or a little south of it to Mount Carmel on the north. It is, however, in many places undulating land and has upon it forests of oak trees. red, and then pale. "Come when yon like, so's you get there before one o'clock," grinned Jared, wishing he knew some girl he THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY Chriat- - Lat'i nak It aa Intorvountain thU year! all feel the need of economy, and Inter mountain product will fire greateet valnee for our money. AUo. our loved onee will appreciate the quality and worth-whilenof ouch rifta. Above all. we will kelp etinulate aotr e induetry and make thta Chriatmaa proeocroui and happy for our entire eoeannntfy. EDNA BALL. Pro to, Utah. We X "- - - ' v AAA I I T?a.vt of It That Never-NevLand Utopia will always remain the ideal because we shall never get there. It adds to our happiness to have something that is beyond reach. The unattainable saves us from disillusionment. Toledo Blade. er . (Map and Pictures, Courtesy United Air Line.) R , Only a Small AJteneHillo Christmas C By ELMO SCOTT II WATSON T i PAKArHHASE sucb as this or a famous poem : '"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; But up In the sky over all of the land Roared airplanes and pilots, a new Santa Claus band" HA as a guide. With such a tremendously rapid medium of transportation as the airplane that accomplishment fell Into the realms of the commonplace. No more precautions were taken for ride across preparing that fish for a 2,500-mllthe continent than would be taken by a confectioner preparing an Icing to be delivered to a suburban customer 20 miles away. The fish was packed In a bit of dry Ice, placed In the compartment of an airplane and about 48 hours later was served In the course of a Christmas dinner for a group of New Yorkers. A young woman living In Los Angeles sent as t u Christmas gift to a friend living on the prairies of Illinois a bouquet of orchids. Santa Clans with his very swift reindeer couldn't have done much better In delivering a perishable gift such a long distance. Many shipments of toys, such as little sets of tin soldiers, dolls and mechanical gadgets form a part of the cargo of a mail plane. An exquisite, beautifully set pearl bracelet, whose Talue was almost that of the ship which carried it, was once part of the cargo In a shipment of air express. What about the mail pilots on Christmas day? Ho they share In the festivities or is It Just another work day for ttiem? In the Isolated districts In the Far West and Northwest It Is customary for the people to come from miles around and gather at the airport to see the ship come In, Just as It used to be customary In small communities to go down to the depot and see the train come in. At many airports on Christmas day the attendants there prepare a Christmas dinner for the Incoming pilot who will descend from a bitflying terly cold sky. throw ofT his ult and Join with ravenous nppetlte In as festive a Christmas dinner as will be served in the e snow-swep- might be aptly used to describe the situation of air mall and air express this Christmas. Truly, airplane pilots will be roaring through the skies carrying Christmas gifts and greetings from one end of the UnlteO States to the other. And quite fitting It Is, too, that gifts should In this manner, for Isn't It true that thoso reindeer steeds of Santa's always had a propensity for air travel? Always the pictures we have seen of them show them coming down the sky about to settle on the snowy roofs of houses below them. But now. Instead of Dasher and Iianrer, Pran-ce- r and Vixen, Donder and Rlltzen. the six fast animals who for so long have pulled Santa's sleigh loaded with gifts to our chimney tops. It Is Pratt and Whitney, Curtiss and Fokker. Boeing and Oorsair, airplanes and engines, that soorn through the skies carrying the great load of Christmas mall. And that rotund figure with white beard and Jolly face who' dressed In a bright red costume trimmed with Arctic fur hns been supplanted by a different breed of man, one who Is leaner of figure and sterner of face. He Is no less Jolly by nature, perhaps, but he Is serious with the new Intelligence of air navigation. He and his fellow pilots are men who have been selected to fly the mall because of their superior qualities as aviators. The faith which the public has In the accuracy and speed of air mail dispatch Is more than usually evident at Christmas time. Beginning about the first of December air line employees start preparation for the rush of air mall and express that will begin about that time and by three days before Christmas will have reached an almost cyclonic pitch. As the Influx of mall Increases extra planes and pilots will be called Into servl-- e and In some Instances It will be necessary to cancel passenger reservations so that the space a passenger would occupy In a ship can be utilized for carrying more mail. It Is a common sight around an airport at Christmas time to see people who have delayed their Christmas mailing until the very last mln-Otcome hurrying In their cars, on foot and on street cars to get their packages In a plane which win get them to their destination in time. Tractlcalfy .all types of merchandise Is accepted by-- if lines for transport and a variety f gifts find their way Into the cockpit ar-rlT- e well-place- d A Chinese fisherman who lived on the coast of A In alts last year sent a 40 pound Alaska salmon to his sportsman friend In New York for whom he worked during the fishing season fur-line- land. The story of the development of the air mall service In this country Is an Interesting one. On the tenth anniversary of Its establishment. Harry S. New. then Cnlted States postmaster-general- , prepared an article on the early development of the service from which the following excerpts are taken: "It was May 1.". 1918, that the department over which I now preside took the initiative and with planes and pilots borrowed from the War department essayed a regular service by air between Washington and New York. "On that eventful day the stage was set, and rightfully so, as In celebration of a major event. The President of the United States and other high officials were present to witness the Inauguration of the first air mail route. They were kept waiting a quarter of an hour when It was discovered thnt the plane, ready to start otherwise, was without gas. This Inauspicious beginning was by no means redeemed when the Inexperienced pilot landed near Waldorf, Md., to discover that he had been traveling almost In the opposite direction from Philadelphia, which had been his goal. "Subsequent efforts at flying the mail proved more efficient, however, and, three months later, the Post Office department took over operation of the route, furnishing Its own equipment and personnel. Before the end of a year It had been demonstrated that, with tUe solving of various problems, flights on regular schedule and In all kinds of weather could be made with a creditable degree of performance. "It was exactly one year following the Inaug uratlon of the New route that service was begun between Cleveland and Chi cago, designed as the first leg of a prospective cond leg. New transcontinental system. The York to Cleveland, was established less than two months later July 1, 1910. It was September 8. 1020, before landing fields had been laid out and other necessary work completed to permit of operation from one coast to the other. "The transcontinental operation was not a through service. Planes flew In the daytime car rying only such mail as could be advanced In delivery or speeded on its way at a saving of from 12 to 24 hours. It was called an "advancing" service. It resulted In clipping something like 24 hours from the best possible transcon tinentnl train time of PT hours. "In August, 1023. the first continuous flights from coast to cnast were made. As they blazed the way for a new world's record In aviation, the pilots were guided by the newly Installed land lighthouses. Tor 4 days and 4 nights n gallant group of air pioneers spanned the con tinent with air mall 4 times In each direction. At the end of the 4 days they quit with a record of KK) per cent perfect. "The next Important steps in the progress and growth of the air mail came with the Innugura tlon of the contract service and the reliqiilsh ment by the government to private Initiative o' the operation of the transcontinental route. "The first of the contract routes was placed In operation February 15, 1020. between Pot roll and Cleveland and Detroit and Chicago. Other contracts were awarded from time to time and the service expanded rapidly, many of the contract routes operating as feeders to the trans continental and the overnight New n JOSEPH WM. TAYLOR, Inc. "Well, Jared Pigeon," Exclaimed His Wife, "Where Have You Been?" York-Chicag- o lines. route between Chi "The governiiient-operutecngo and San Francisco went Into private operation July 1, 1027, followed two months later by the double-dailservice between New York and Chicago." route went InSince that government-oixTnteto private operation many more advances In air mall trnnsHrtatIon have been made. No longer Is the dar.ger imminent of a pilot landing some place only to discover that he has been flying for hours In the oposite direction from his destination, as happened on thnt first air mail flight In 101S. r Now, besides the magnetic compass, the d earth-Inducto- compass, and numerous other navlga tlomil aids, the pilot Is aided by the use of the directional radio beam. Stations which trans mlt this beam are located along the flight route and each station emits a radio beam towards the other so that the two beams converge and form a direct line for the airplane in flight to follow. The beam, of course. Is not visible to the human eye but a receiving apparatus In the cockpit of the airplane Is sensitive to the Im'uiu and Indicates by a radio dash-do- t system whether the ship Is on Its course, or off Its course, either to the left or the right. (C br Wtrn Ntwipaptr UnloQ ; ( could ask to share dinner with Billy. "Well, Jared Pigeon!" exclaimed his wife, coming to the back door as he came In with his delayed packages, '"where have you been leaving me with this news about Caroline " "Don't get excited. Phoebe," protested her husband dumping the packages on the floor and closing the kitchen door. "1 know It's terrible thnt Caroline can't come home this Christmas, but you know what young folks are these dH.vs. I've asked Billy Wakeman to dinner. If you can think of any girl I can ask so there'll be four of ns, mother " Mrs. Pigeon smiled sedately. "Land no, Jared, Caroline's the only girl 1 can think of," she said, "and now. with company, we've got to get busy Mother Pigeon, running up nnd down stairs, was very busy setting the table with all their best china. There was a delicious warmth up there In Caroline's room. Then, when everything was nlinost ready, when Mrs. Pigeon In her best blnck silk, and a new cap with a tiny violet bow on her lovely white hair was entertaining Billy Wakeman. Jnst as a mother cares for her own beloved son. Just before It was time to sit down to that delicious dinner mysterl ously set for four people though Mr. Pigeon knew mother always set a place for Caroline, anyway Just then they heard the horn of the village stage. "It's stopping here!" yelled Mr. Pigeon, rushing to the side door, end In a moment n lovely, Inughlng girl was throwing off her furs among them, hot seeing Billy Wakeman at first, where he stood white and tense. Then she saw him, and a wonderful look came Into her face "Billy!" she whispered. "You here? oh. this makes If perfect P Billy Wakeman held out his arms and Caroline went Into them like a homing bird. Mrs. Pigeon drew her husband into the kitchen and closed the door. "Jared," she snld. "you took II for granted this morning thnt Caroline wasn't coming home but she Is here She said she was fired of the city. And that she would find something to do In town. I knew her heart was breaking for Billy you did n wonderful thing to ask him" (C br MeCltir Svndlum. Mwrpr S.rlc) IM'l F.aeralj Lntfitf Berhcatf 01 Time Payment PIm H W Lett t, M m Mttl : fn m 'rMi Writing on Photographs Before writing; on a glossy-finis- h photograph with ink, sprinkle talcum powder on the picture and shake it off. The ink will tend to adhere and will not have the tendency to draw up in spots. Popular Mechanics Magazine. GASOLINE Packed With Power Glass Stoppers Glaas stoppers in bottles will almost always brerk off if f oread when they are stuck. Wrap a cloth wrung out of hot water around the neck of the bottle and continue these applications until the stopper is released. "GRAINS OF GOLD" THE WHOLE WHEAT CEREAL "Makes Cream Taste Better" Wistorn Mads For Western Trade Aeh Your Grocer Them Were the Happy Days Life was a heap less wearing when lanes were what the liva stock used to get from the pasture to the barn in instead of something fool motorists won't stay in. 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