| Show SHOP EARLY MAIL EARLY again the time is at hand when father mother son and daughter have to think of christmas shopping and of ni mailing ailing out their presents and christmas wishes wi at such a time it is appropriate to remind everybody of the advantages of early shopping chopping and early mailing christmas shopping is both a science and an art A science in that it calls for our best judgment of expenditure pend iture consistent with the social and temperamental demands of the occasion an ait in that tile the gifts j we choose reflect the taste and personality sona lity of the giver and should satisfy the needs or fancies of the recipient this calls for some service somewhere and flom somebody right here is where the merchants of richfield can be of valuable assistance and this is one of the best reasons why we should do our chi christmas istman shopping at home if the local merchant does not have what you want let him order it for you he will be glad to do so the great question now before the country is what shall I 1 get for her h him im or it arid and dont overlook the it for that means the baby of course it takes little to satisfy the baby but it takes a lot to satisfy the giver that the baby is satisfied if you are losing sleep over tile the annual problem of christmas giving why not step into one of our stores and confess your troubles what the storekeeper or salesperson will do for you will be a revelation it is his business to make timely and pleasing suggestions to you even worry saved is money gained modern merchandising chan dising is more than waiting on customers and selling goods it consists in selling the right goods to the right party A sale that displeases the customer is a dead loss to the merchant A sale is a cold caude transaction unless there is service and value behind it besides re fittings etc to which the home town store will give careful attention but there is more to the point than this there is not a store in richfield that will not gladly assist you saw in every reasonable way to solve your christmas shopping problems with the same prudence that you exercise in your own aftanis rather strong statement but we make it boldly gladly mid and truthfully this paper stands fo forc square for fair dealing in bus business relationships and we would rather make a mistake in assuming the right thing than sin in assuming the giong you do not hesitate to put your will with your lawyer your money with your bank your life in the hands of your doctor your innermost secrets in the confidence of your friends why by hesitate to put your christmas shopping troubles in the hands of our mci chants let us try it this year if one of them goes wrong to the extent that there is a gross betrayal of public confidence on his part the reaper will if necessary take an everl everlasting asting crack at him for tile the next fifty two weeks now to the other question that of early ni mailing ailing the shop early mail E eaily ai ay c campaign inaugurated inaugurate b by y postmaster general new list last year proved to be an unqualified success it was of great benefit to the people and also enabled post office employees to deliver all the mail before noon on december 25 tile the department part ment again tins this year asks the hearty cooperation of the public in older that the made last year may be equalled equal led if not excelled when you shop early and mail early you are helping tile the clerks in the post I 1 office to eat cat their dinners home and you ire are greatly benefiting yourselves you have a licater gi eater chance to secure 1 better selection of gifts from the stores you have more time to wrap them securely and you aie sure that they will arrive at their destination in time to be opened christmas morning you are also relieving the burden on the clerks behind the counters counter in the stores and you are giving practical demonstration of the good will that Chiist christmas mas time signifies acting postmaster general john H bartlett requests that you refrain from using small envelopes in sending your christmas cards as this very greatly retards regards the sorting and distribution of the mails let all of us pull together this year do our shopping early and od our mailing early lets make it a genuine old fashioned christmas celebration L fairchild fail child republican myron herrick our ambassador to france recently returned to this country on vacation fathchild fail Fah child and herzick henick were largely instrumental in bringing to a I 1 re realization aliption what gallatin lad had expected within a year A century parsed but the trick ba has been turned and we now have a very ci evitable creditable edi table embassy in paris no 2 avenue daena formerly the of president grevy this is how bow it was done soon after the election of president harding in 1920 some agitation was aroused in the press of the country for the purchase by the U S government of embassies legations and consulate buildings abroad it was pointed out that the time was exceedingly appropriate for sue such h action inas inasmuch as the american dollar was enjoying the highest purchasing power it had ever known abroad or might ever know now again on march 2 1921 congress appropriated under the provisions of tile the so called lowden act of 1911 and the ambassador at paris was instructed to on av available flable and appropriate houses for sale in in palis he could find none that ca came n i 0 within the limit of appropriation as tile the exchange was at that tinie time mr fairchild went abroad in the summer of 1922 and when lie he found out what tile the situation was lie he carne came back insistent on a remedy he introduced a bill authorizing the expenditure of 43 for the paris embassy which passed march 4 1923 this was an authorization however not an ampro pi bation which came much later mr henick was authorized to secure an option in dollars on the grevy lesl 1 ence but the owners wanted one in francs which the ambassador took on his own responsibility for one month congress did not reach the appropriation bill the option was about to expire ep ire and tile the franc wa was falling until it reached 27 to the dollar then herrick on his own responsibility bought francs with hi his is own money and purchased the hou house s on his own account however giving the owners an offer of release from the option which they refused to accept herrick then cabled 1 I shall hold this property for the government at cost price on april 2 1924 the appropriation passed congress and on april 11 title to the grevy mansion passed to the united states meantime the franc had largely recovered so that the saving to to this government by mr herricks action was the report on the house says while it is in no sense palatial it was amply large for most occasions and entirely appropriate as a residence for the american ambassador of the forty odd countries to which we send chiefs of mission not more thin than half a dozen see old glory flying over an Ameil american can owned diplomatic residence and practically all our con salutes are rented this is a handicap to efficiency for one thing for another it is an expensive proposition the state department budget calls for the expenditure of nearly ha half if a million dollars a year on account of rent heat beat light repairs etc for our diplomatic residences lesi dences over is for rent alone or the interest on at 5 per cent that would lun fenish sh about 25 21 residences lesi dences of the P paris iris type and less than would equip our foreign senta tives from the Ai gentine ambassador to the V C at venezuela with a local habitation as well ell as a name |
