| Show FAD FOR POSTCARDS POST CARDS 31 the people do use a few pose post carda cards every overy yer year uncle sam is just now a contract foi postal cards to oe tie sold during tho next four years a matter of a year these will vill cost the goern government ment e hundred thousand dollars igind tho the people thirty sk six million dollars which also includes the cost of delivering but this does not comprise the postal card out put wo we aro are now annually buying from germany alone seven hundred million post cards and also avoral rations from france and ether aher Europ european pan nations but germany thus far for has nas had a cinch on cp colored ored dumn t card trade for even american aubil hers hen instead of doing their own printing and have found it intro table to place orders direct fth german houses how cvar thu the new tariN bill puts a tax of a quarter of a rent on the cheaper foreign qualities and a higher rate on the more expensive und and ones in the expectation that tho the business hereafter bo be doi a by american houses it is safe to say that americana americans buy about twenty five million past cards every year to twenty five to each man boman and child in the country more than half of these are of the picture variety but suppose uncle sain should anade the picture postal field what a howl would lo 10 up from the picture postal card ma makers kers |
