Show DO NOT WRITE LETTERS owing to the enormous increase of government war work the governmental departments part ments at washington are being flooded with t letters of inquiry on every conceivable subject concerning the war and it has been found a physical impossibility for the clerks though they number an army in themselves now to give many of these letters proper attention and reply there is published daily at washington under authority of and by direction of the president a government newspaper the official united states bulletin this newspaper prints every day all of the more important rulings decisions regulations proclamations matio mat ions s orders etc as they are promulgated by the several departments and the many special committees and agencies now in operation at the national capital this official journal is posted daily in every post office in the united states more than 56 in number and may inay also be found on file at all libraries boards of trade and e chamber of commerce the offices of mayors governors and other federal officials by consulting these files most questions will be found readily answered there will be little necessity for letter writing the unnecessary congestion of the mails will be appreciably preci ably relieved railroads will be called upon to move fewer correspondence sacks and the mass of business that is piling up in the government departments will be eased considerably hundreds of clerks now answering correspondence will vill be enabled to give their time to essentially important war work and a fundamentally patriotic service will have been performed by the public |