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Show LEHl FREE PRESS. LEBL LTAH S3 CHRISTMAS RUSH NATIONAL AFFAIRS Holiday Mail Problem Easier to Handle Since Public Started Helping Postmen PtvltwtJ jnoi viuj on a. would serve notice by Hash-ingto- this card to the folks who used to deliv- ered in a distant community, and Aunt Matilda's gift package for the youngsters has arrived as usual right on gold-buyin- g . fW Lr" schedule. Forty thousand postmasters are beginning to see daylight ever a mound of letters, parcels, greeting cards and what- not that showers down on the post eBce department each Holiday Pretty soon it will be over for another year, and the weary mailmen will start preparing for sea-so- f 'i S A, ' a. .. W 1 " Li' f - WET ' 1940. This is a job that requires postage stamps, an eye on the weather, machine-lik- e of railroad and postal facilifir ties, oodles of patience with the but lax public, and around 110,000,000 for extra clerk hire. Beware of Fads! It means watching out for population trends, economic conditions and those unpredictable mailing fada that grip the public fancy each Holiday season. One year they'll pour oceans of Christmas cards on a little village of 150 called Bethlehem, Md., the next year on Santa DELUGE! .4 ZooJ o Christmas mail descends on one of America's Qaus, Ind., next on Christmas, Fla., and probably the following year at ' metropolitan post offices, bound for cities and hamlets hundreds of Noel, Va. miles away. Why? Just to have their cards cancelled with a Christmas-- pos- can decipher handwriting as illegi- They don't guess at it; instead thry tmark which most of the recipients ble as an Egyptian cryptograph, but turn to reliable local sources like won't even notice. But it's fine old Christmas is just when the mail the chamber of commerce, board of American tradition and the post of- clerks don't have time to do it. Such trade and other commercial groups fice department must detective jobs must then fall partly which can make a pretty good guess Holiday postal rushes aren't what on the shoulders of inexperienced about local business conditions five they used to be, but that doesn't substitute postmen, which only em- or six months hence. About the same time the bureau mean the volume of mail is decreasphasizes the need for legible adon the it's On of engraving and printing begins the updresses. contrary, ing. grade. But the public has memoTo outfox the dead letter office, turning out extra stocks of stamps rized those "shop early, many post offices have a "hospital" for Christmas. This office doesn't mail early" slogans and they're tak- to doctor decrepit packages. In larg- wait for the postmasters to make ing more pity on the hapless mailer cities a half dozen men are as- their check; stamps must be printed immediately to avoid a man. to this job during the HoliThere's still a disheartening del- signedarmed with and later in the season. glue patches, days, uge of mail each season to that cord. But sometimes the job is beTransportation equipment is the graveyard of good intentions, the yond them, spelling grief for both next problem. When the post office dead letter office, where go all letdepartment knows how much busiand intended recipient. ters and parcels suffering from il- giver ness is expected, railroads are noMall Volume Anticipated. tified to have the proper number of legible, incorrect addresses and Christmas preparations in the post mail service cars in readiness when hopelessly poor wrappings from which the address has become lost office department begin in the rush starts. At local post offices when individual postmasters altogether. special vehicles must be requisiAn old hand In the postal service send in their requisitions for stamps. tioned for parcel delivery. 3,770,-000,0- j well-meani- 'V ' -7 y log-ja- mid-summ- j . That Will Stay other r n Sidelights on a foll of correspondents Roosevelt for the Demo I', s. cratic nomination . potter jiropos Coi- as a uar prevent ne ernment agencies are centering on a drive against public utilities. By WASHINGTON. Christmas om pmafore , 1 be a ereat favcr .L'5) eovemrr.ents in t.e wor ana especiaUy Japan fa c I . -- n suPf - 6 . ., ... Russian most useful kind vn -that ii tuc a! j on in a ji.Ty-- not . 'It goes pold in paymen lor ineir jjiw-rfi-.c. wav the unitea sasn to xiei it covers boVl " :Lm and the skirt tf your V I longer buy gold top " (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I lire next door has been . CARTER FIELD By HUGH TIIOMASON r;i3r-r- f j Practical Pinafore this govern- - ffiw . j frThe wEe'rt in question is absolute- ' confident that, u dune, Stalin wou:a noi "- -, ceed against uniana. nc De some c.wthere might t out m barr&ssir.g consequences, ret result might be to freeze goldto and thus add another handicap world trade. But this, he insists, v.ould be worth the cost. r ; thoroughly, it won't shoulders. It has two pau.ii aahcu u.ai you mighty handy Buttons and bright piping it a gay touch; it's prettily of fh j uait and skirt. Best of all, it s so easj caJ I I Modern Colonists Plan New Home on i Island in Bahamas PASADENA. California will be offered next month by 25 "pioneers" leaving to start a colony on uninhabited East Caicos island at the eastern VM i-iYY,;v. its W rx xtvr PC UERE-Bri- tish ' NO motorized troops patrol the streets of Bethlehem to prevent disorders. "O tiult total Bethlehem, Nearly 1,000 years ago one of the How Uill i ire tiee ii . , ." turning points of the Crusades occurred at an old church just outAmerica sings of side Bethlehem, where Richard the Lion before Hearted way gave Christ'sbirthplacethis n. Yuletide, the little Palestine city of Bethlehem is smouldering under such a deep factional discontent that the event for which it is famous is being observed with cautious restraint this year. Bethlehem's 1939 Christmas will be happier than last a At Final Cafes Encircle Church. In time of peace, modern Bethlehem with its 10,000 people is a prosperous town with a flourishing tourist trade. Around the Church of the Nativity are cafes, noisy with radio music, soft drink establishments and curio shops selling postcards of sacred scenes, crosses, rosaries, carved wooden camels and other souvenirs. The present strife centers around Arab opposition to making Palestine a haven for Jews, in accordance with Great Britain's plan. Bethlehem and Jerusalem, which are connected with a modern highway in contrast with the Biblical simplicity of the surrounding country, remain strongholds of Arab leaders. Bethlehem has no factories, big stores or swanky hotels, but its citizens keep busy in the fields and vineyards, with their flocks, or at such modest local trades as tinsmiths, stone masons, carpenters and shoemakers. Whole families make their living carving beads and other religious articles out of end of the Bahamas group, 750 miles from Miami. Led by R. C. Irvine, Pasadena salesman, the party will live on the island belonging to Mrs. Grace Lake, who inherited it from her "salt king" grandfather, John Ney Part of the island is Reynolds. owned under a deed from the British crown, and the rest is leased for 90 years. East Caicos' colonists will retain their American citizenship, returning to the mainland each two years to have their passports renewed. Resources of the island, says Irvine, are sufficient to keep the group busy It is surrounded by waters, the fish being valuable for the skin and liver oil. Thousands of wild jackasses, propagated by those left behind by a sisal development company many years ago, must be killed. Part of 3,000 acres of sisal now growing wild will be cleared for papayas, valuable for medicinal purposes. The rest of the sisal land will be cultivated, the product being sold for manufacture of rope, twine, mattresses and upholstering. Except for foundations left by former colonists and three huge tanks for catching rain water, the island now has no facilities for accommodating the group. But Irvine's pioneers expect to build homes, generate electricity from windmills and construct boats for communication with Turks island, 35 miles away. It Is also hoped to attract tourists to the strand of white coral beach, said to be excellent for duck shark-infeste- d that time shooting melee occurred in a cafe Just across the square from the Church of the Nativity. British troops invaded the place, which was said to be a hideout for Arab rebels. Long associated with the religion of brotherly love and the gentle art of the shepherd, Bethlehem has hunting. frequently, in its 30 centuries, been the scene of strife and bloodshed. Rachel Died There. Seattle Girl Its first mention in the Bible is Hailed as Violin Prodigy associated with death that of RaSEATTLE The chel, nearly 2,000 years before daughter of a cobbler may be America's Christ. Tending his sheep around Danext violin "prodigy." She is Anita Bethlehem 'was the boy named and olive wood for Lipp, who first gained recognition vid, who later slew his ten thouthis year when Mischa Elman, intersands to the mere thousands of Saul. sale to tourists. In Bethlehem, says the Bible, ocEverywhere in this old country nationally famous violinist, heard curred Herod's massacre of the in- the new jostles the old for rightf-way- . her play and urged that she be givfants in the time of Christ. Newsboys call special editions en an opportunity to extend her edDuring the World war new battle and Bethlehem's mayor drives his ucation. Small for her age, Anita lines were drawn around Bethle- automobile to the municipal build- uses a violin and ing, where his office is equipped has remarkable stage presence. hem, when, in November, 1917, n forces with telephones and other modern Conductors marveled when she ten and fought for Jerusalem, 5 Mi miles to devices. An electric star even hangs played through difficult concertos for above Manger square. the north. four hours without faltering. year's, however. mother-of-pea- five-mi- le ld rl three-quarters-si- Turkish-Germa- tbK spo ma I the ! tea I me arc fe I pie I 9" Scheme Would Sol Cost Dollar I. S. Government a a recent poll WASHINGTON.-- In One attractive pr.rt of the scheme, cost correspondents ty he explains, is that it would not of Washington dola a that d.bclosed government Newsweek it was the United States All it life. one of writers news of risk the the or lar heavy majority as in the capital think that President would cost would be such exports to make and to able now Roosevelt will be renominated, this country is that Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Russia, and tor wnicn nusa could Michigan will be the Republican paving in gold. Tins country nominee. still sell to Soviet buyers all that The The poll was confidential as to they could pay for in goods. it the views of any individual corre- -' only complication would be that take the for gold. no would writer the So longer that spondent. most partisan Republican organ The worst complication about the could express his view freely that plan is that it would require considRoosevelt would be nominated and erable scrutiny to prevent any Ruselected, whereas the correspondent sian gold finding its way into our for the Daily Worker could predict hands and yet at the same time not the nomination of John Nance Garinterfere with the British selling us ner by the Democrats, and of James all the gold they could produce. W. Wadsworth by the Republicans if While there is no disposition to unthat is what he wanted to say. There change the present gold policy, would be no repercussions. der which the United States, alone This makes the poll a most interand virtually unaided, is pegging the esting topic for conversation, and price of gold at 535 an ounce, even presumably a fair cross section of if it were suddenly decided that the views of the men whose occupathis program should be abandoned, tion it is to be expert observers. it would not be stopped until after Anyway they are being paid for it. the present war is over. Furthermore, this writer takes no This is the first time that any sugexception to the list of correspondhas been made to use the gestion ents selected by Newsweek for this enormous subsidy power of this gold poll. He is rather effectively barred buying to coerce other nations into from such criticism because he was a line of conduct which the United one of those polled! States could approve. Yet the odds of the only bets the ' "'vV1' I writer has heard about as to the Government Agencies in XL? " nomination of Roosevelt for a third Drive Against Utilities term are three to one against! y drive is under way The Whereas, it is almost impossible to again. A gullible reporter in Washconceive events between now and ington will be told by all sorts of next July which will make Senator public power functionaries that it Vandenberg's stand against repeal doesn't mean a thing that it was a 876-- 8 of the arms embargo in the extra coincidence that Dave Lilien-tha- l, pure session helpful to his chances. John Carmody, John Rankin, I Actually the writer agrees with George Norris and Harold Ickes have make that you can turn it out in the majority of correspondents been laying down a barrage against a few hours. Send for the polled that the nomination of Roosethe electric companies. No one in tern today, and make half a d at velt by the next Democratic convenhigh command, it is asserted by the aprons like this, so that you'll to on, tion is likely, despite the third-terone have put button that ways ready underlings, pressed any issue. Yet there is no denying that ended the truce which many neu- fresh and clean. It's nice for gilts most recent indications, especially trals had hoped would work a per and club or church sales, too. the swing of the left wing New Dea- manent peace. Make it of gingham, percale, I lers to Paul V. McNutt, are to the But it does not take a very cynical chintz or linen, in cheerful prints contrary. mind to conclude that there are just or plain colors. No. 1876 is designed for size too many individual actions, and imConvention Situation and 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, and 44. Sia all that actions, pending they Might Force Roosevelt fit together too precisely into a pat- 34 requires 2 yards of The question is whether the con- tern, for the whole conglomeration material; 2 yards bias binding to vention situation will not be such to be banditry instead of an organ- trim. that Roosevelt will have to take the ized military operation. The timSend your order to The Sewin nomination himself, or see it go to ing, also, is important. It came Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New some candidate who might not caron the eve of the final date for "in- Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, ry on the New Deal policies. The tegration" of the holding companies Ca,:f. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) "smart money" is apparently on the under the death sentence, being ad- each. side of his stepping down. But some ministered now by Jerome Frank of of that "smart money" is known to SEC. It comes just a few weeks be Garner money, and this writer before the scheduled beginning of is far from being alone in saying the monopoly committee's probe that if it is to be Garner or a third into investment trusts tied up with term, Roosevelt would go for the the utilities. From this last, incithird term. dentally, the utility baiters hope for As to Vandenberg, there is no great publicity from the big names doubt that personally he is better associated in the public mind with known and liked by the Washington WalL street which they expect will correspondents polled than any oth- be flashed on the front pages of er candidate. Personally, the writ- every newspaper in the country. er agrees again, but the cold logic The strategy is even clearer when would indicate that at least three one realizes that the new congress men have a better chance. These will meet in January right after are Thomas E. Dewey of New the public has been d thoroughly York, Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, by, first, the wickedness and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. of the power barons, via the T. N. 3 simple steps begin amczing At the present moment subject E. C. investigation, and, relief in a jiffy the to change without notice, downtown snameiui unpreparednesssecond, from a Nlw York is for Bricker, and, prob- military standpoint, as Mr. Ickes' l.To relieve to! ably unalterably, strongly against lieutenants assure him will be demhnrtvdiscomtofti This is something to be onstrated. Dewey. aches, lake 1 BM reckoned with, for downtown New ln,n Tablets drink s glass of York is very potent in two ways. Colossal Shifting of Repeat in I noure. It's where the big campaign contri Business Eqni'ies Planned butions come from, and socially it SEC is guarding its strategy with ramifies through the country. a secrecy so intense that nno thrMtW Big frogs from hinterland little ders if anybody except Jerome dissolvSTNf cold, pools ere impressed beyond all Frank himself knows the details of i1 Aspirin Tablets M rhyme and reason when little frogs its plan, which, it is admitted, will glass of water gargie. in the New York pool confide their shortly be sprung and involves a political opinions. And when the lady forced "integration" system which frogs in New York emit words of will be the most colossal shifting of sound political wisdom, or unsound, business equities in 3. Check fjrm history. it an even greater effect on the ... T. N. E. C.'s plans are .If. yoiiTiveafiiver" Ham m . obfairly lady nogs from the hinterland pools. vious, aimed only at down -- call go whipping John doctor. 17. S. Gold-Buyin- g Q. Citizen into line behind what the Power public power group wants from conSeen as War Preventive gress. Just be sure you get genuine fri' Use of this nation's But there is a curious indecision acting BAYER Asptruu power might have stopped Soviet tn the general staff of the aggression on Finland in its tracks forces as to what to ask At the first sign of a cold, follow tt congress to if a suggestion do how to made to recently cash in quickly on aE cireaions in the pictures President Roosevelt by an interna- this tremendous the simplest and among the mo and barrage drive effective methods of relief knc" tionally known financial authority the further the road to modern science. had worked out according to bis of country socialism down in the electric complete formula. As a matter of there -- take hold" of painful cold symIt was based on the fact that the industry. are a few pinks among fact, the reds ptoms, welcome relief you can reaw Soviet produLtjj a very large por- The tcel often starts in a snori un tion of all the gold that the United steampinks would leave all existing in private hands it's amazini? how fast it works. operations States treasury is buying from the only it that all insisting hydroelectric" Try this way. You will say rest of the world. Actually Russia power should be public. sure unequalled. But be stands second in the list, with the But the indecision is caused g by you get the British empire first, but Russia has lack of want, bayek conviction ayer product that you congress will fisn ior been gaining and hopes to become uayer Aspinn uy i c No. 1 gold producer before the full name when yu V? long. handing out TV A But the only purchaser for appropriations, buv. this loan and grant authorizations for gold, running well into the hundreds Ickes to use in ASH1 subsiding munieinni GENUINE BAYER of .millions of dollars, is Uncle Sam. electric The plants. biggest factor He pays $35 an ounce for it NV worrymg the public rower group is body else, practically, is buying any the coal industry, not only the mine The proposal of this expert was owners but the United Mine Workthat , President Roosevelt, with no ers They don't want any more fanfare of publicity so that the So" " viet authorities would be embarP'ants, and they art Can Bt CONSISTBITlYc more potent on Capitol getting Hil rassed, let the Stalin government and more all the time aggressive know that if the Soviet govern- BUY ADVERTISED COOp$ (Bell Syndicate-W- Nu anti-utilit- W m 1 Christ's Village Fears Uprising As World Celebrates Nativity C shell-shocke- ml h. gold-buyin- g anti-utili- ty uw. fast-actin- Good FiIerchardise "-w- Scavic.) |