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Show A HAPPIER HOLIDAY The postmaster general has addressed a timely appeal to the people of the United States. He says: "The government will be thankful to you if you will shop early, wrap carefully, care-fully, address plainly and mail promptly all of this year's Christmas merchandise.-' This is a reasonable and a sensible request and we feel sure every one around Milford can profit by following- it. Shopping early means getting the best of everything in stock before it has been picked over, and also more time for making mak-ing selections. Wrapping carefully means the goods will go through the mail without breaking and without loss. It also means quick handling, and getting the things you are sending send-ing into the hands of those for whom they are intended in good condition. Addressing plainly and mailing promptly go hand-in-hand with the other two suggestions. Taken altogether, these suggestions mean a happier Chrismas for the ones who carry them out. Merchants have more time in which to wait on you, and also time in which to personally help you solve your buying problems, if you will do your buying early and not wait until the last minute. Postoffice employes can be relieved of the heaviest part of their annual burden if you will only cooperate with them by following the postmaster general's suggestions. But, best of all, shopping early, wrapping carefully and mailing promptly brings happiness to those who do it. It will help to make your Christmas happier, too. And that is why there should be more of it done. o USING THE BOYCOTT Newspaper reports that one of the largest five-and-ten-cent store organizations in the U. S. has announced that .it will not in the future' sell "Made in Japan" merchandise is causing nation-wide comment. And yet the average citizen will wonder why such a decision wasn't reached years ago by every store in America. Using such a boycott now as a protest pro-test against war may or may not be allright. That is open for argument. But boycotting the cheap and usually worthless worth-less Japanese junk in an effort to protect American labor and American wages has long been needed. As the average Milford citizen who is anxious to see the market for American Ameri-can made products views it, "Made in Japan" merchandise should have been shut out of this country long before Japan began her cruel and unjustified war on the Chinese. |