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Show SITS GETS LETTERS AS IN PAST YEARS Ruling- lo Contrary by Post-office Post-office Department Is Ordered Reversed. Letters to Snnta Clans may he written by Ihe children of Salt T.akc City und olh'ir places this year nnd the writer may ho sure that cither that benevolent old sntlcninn or ono of his usslstants will receive the epistle, nnd. If the letter Is well written and the writer found to he a kooiI little boy or ;j!rl, an answer I assured. A rullnir was Hindu by the poslofllce department some time aso to the effect that letters written to Santa Onus must be Pet to the dead letter oflb-e. Frank 11. Hitchcock, postmaster general, has reversed this rullnj; In response to rc-uuestH rc-uuestH from all over the Tnlled States. There have always b'-en numerouK Inquiries In-quiries for such letters from charitably Inclined people of Salt I-nke City anil now tho letters directed to Simla Claua will be turned over to them. The little tots have already begun to write to the popular old scritlman with the lou- whiskers and the reindeer team. the. first letter being recelvtid by Postmaster Arthur L. Thomas yesterday. |