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Show Unnecessary Mail. The American public has taken mere and more to the habit cf writ ing letters to public officials. Many of these are necessary communications, communica-tions, some are helpful and stimulat ing, but the great majority could be very well left unmailed. Take President Roosevelt, for example. ex-ample. During January the White House received, on the average, 13,-550 13,-550 letters each day; 35,000 were received re-ceived about his birthday. In February Feb-ruary the daily average of letters was something over 8,000, included in which were 15,000 tardy birthday greetings. Other officials are likewise swamped swamp-ed with correspondence. Senator Ashurst of Arizona recently said he knew two other senators whose mail "was more than 1,800 letters a day. He also added that in one week he had received 6.000 letters relating to the same subject. Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, added that he had received 1,800 telegrams on one day. apparently sent as a result of an organized drive. Representatives do not have quite as large a volume of c&rre-.pondence but even these arc heavly burdened with correspondence. correspond-ence. Wouldn't it be helpful for many of thes" letters to be kept at home? If the ordinary citizen has something some-thing of value cr a legitimate subject sub-ject for comment he should feel entirely en-tirely welcome to write any public official but it is often wasteful to clutter the mail with stereotyped letters se-nt at the instigation cf .some organization or special interest. inter-est. The man who receives them knows what caused them to come and very often they are by partie . cs personally interested in the matter mat-ter discussed that the official knows their attitude even before he hears frcm them. |