Show Something Send Letter Chain Hits Dizzy Pace Faster and dizzier than ever something send letter chains revolved through Salt Lake City and the west Saturday Started as a send dime for prosperity scheme in Denver about Easter more recent systems ask exchange of a wide vari variety ty of commodities and servi services es as well ell as money Send a dime send a a. dollar send send- send a pint of liquor send a loaf boat of ot bread send a horse exhorted letters received throughout the west according to press reports The oddest chain came to light in Muskogee Okla according to the Associated Press A large number of persons there were asked to give the person at the top of the list lisL a kiss so ro that surely one may find a true love among the odd odd trading kisses Classed as Violation In Los Angeles Clark E. E Webster postoffice inspector was reported to have said that thal the dime letter mania was officially interpreted as a violation viola viola- tion of postal laws A postoffice executive e in Spokane was said to have expressed ed the opinion opinion opinion ion that prosperity letters did not come under the endless endl s chain enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise prohibitions In federal law because because because be be- cause the chain theor theoretically end ended d with the sending ending of letters In Los Angeles W W. F. F Palmer assistant assistant assistant as as- United States attorney was said to have rove denied reports concerning concerning concerning concern concern- ing a search for lor a master mind among racketeers in the the- chain letter craze C. C J. J of San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco circe chief postoffice inspector for fr California said that promoters in m Lo Los Angeles had set et printing presses es esat at work turning out letters as a a. a racket rackel and reaping profits through 1 use of fictitious names Postmaster te William Willlam H. H McCarthy of San Francisco said that the chain letters are not a menace there pointing pointing point point- ing out that San Franc Francisco co is not a hick town The people here have too much sense c to fall fail for such a cheap lD- lD cent 10 ent game Lack of Inter Interest t tIn In the opinion of Joseph W. W Bambrough Bambrough Barnbrough Bam Bam- brough local superintendent of cf mails Salt Lakers Lakes too are generally refusIng refusing refus refus- ing jag to be enmeshed in letter chains We have noticed d no marked increase increase increase in in- crease in mail here he said Letter carriers report that they are deliverIng delivering delivering deliver deliver- ing a considerable number of dime containing letters but there are not enough to add much to the snail mall vol vol- ume Some S mc carriers report that they have delivered as many as 40 dime letters to the same ame per person on The highest highest highest high high- est number reported is 73 13 No dimes have spilled on postoffice floors here as has been reported in some ome cities citie Meanwhile postal authorities in several cities con confidently predict that the chain letter craze will die of its own weight |