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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR This-'n-That A recent survey reveals that the home-town newspaper rates third from the top among the items : that the soldier boys want most from home. Letters from home came first, pictures of loved ones second and the home-town paper third. . . . Dick Hammer sold his roping horse for $450 and has been regreting it ever since. A couple of weeks ago he and Ez McArthur took a trip down to the Shiprock area looking for horses. ' The boys report that they didn't find anything that looked like prospective rodeo roping rop-ing material and Dick has been lower in spirit than ever. . . . Capt. Virgil Snow increased my education by having Gordon Mathis stick a fine on me in Rotary Ro-tary a week ago last Friday for not knowing that enlisted men came home on "furlough" and officers of-ficers had "leaves". Virgil told Rotary members some interesting things about the Hawaiian Islands. Is-lands. For one thing, he said that he hadn't seen a ukelele since he had been in the Islands and the only hula dancers he had seen were the ones that the L. D. S. church sent out to entertain enter-tain them. He reports that the dance is just about a lost art and that the Mormons happen to know it because they have been taught it in their Mutual programs pro-grams just as the local boys and girls are taught other types of dancing here. . . . Speaking of Rotary programs, Coach Stan Watts, Ross Hardy and Pearson H. Corbett, have given the Ro-tarians Ro-tarians some very fine talks at those noon luncheons. These men know their subjects and present thenr. interestingly. Increased Postage Rates When the government advises us that it is necessary that the postage rates be increased, I can't help thinking about all those mil-Dons mil-Dons of postage-free pieces of mail that the Government bureaus and all their agencies have deluged newspapers, businessmen, farmers and the general public with' in the last few years. A report coming to my desk from Douglas C. Mc-Murtrie'. Mc-Murtrie'. secretary of the National Council' of Business Mail, etc., indicates in-dicates that Government bureau free mail has multiplied five-fold during the past ten years. The cost of carrying this deluge of bureau and department mail has increased from 14 millions in 1933 to 72 millions in 1942. And the end is not yet! The figures for 1943 will undoubtedly be higher. ... At the present time there is a bill pending in Congress which would require these bureaus to pay for their postage the same as they pay for telephone, railroad rail-road travel, freight, etc. Passage of this bill would immediately change the post office department's depart-ment's deficit (last year) into a profit of 58 million dollars. . . . The passage of this bill would also make the bureau heads think twice before they started some of their trash through the mails. My guess is that 90 per cent of it goes straight into the waste-paper waste-paper basket. ... I am informed in-formed that the paper situation is going to be very serious in the next few months. When I think of all the paper and man hours that have been wasted in sending out useless mimeographed letters and Government reports, it makes my blood boil. Remember 14 minions in 1933 when the beloved New Deal took over, to 72 millions mil-lions in 1942! Simmons Visit Here Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Simmons were visiting in Dixie this week end at the. Jos. J. Milne home. I ran into Ed Saturday evening and we had a few minutes' chat. Ed. reports that he went up on the old Red Hill and looked over the town. He declared that he had lived in a number of communities com-munities in his life but he had never lived anywhere that he liked as well as St. George. Reports Re-ports coming to me indicate that Ed. is doing okeh in Orem. Florence Flor-ence and Ed. looked fine as did Jimmy, their youngest son, who was with them. Christmas Cards Limited The manufacture of Christmas cards has been limited to 50 per cent of last year's production. So you can readily see that the supply sup-ply is limited. A telephone call to Salt Lake Wednesday morning evocated the information that most of the cards are now gone there and it is now too late to order from our Denver and Chicago Chi-cago supply houses. We have a few left, if you are interested, please come in at once. |