^Christmas Mailing
"For Servicemen
To End Octoder 15
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“Save strong string and box
material and start to plan shop
ping,” Postmaster General Frank
C. Walker advises Americans in
announcing the rules for mailing
of Christmas gifts for Army and
Navy personnel overseas.
This year the Christmas mail
ing period for both Army and
Navy overseas forces is the same
—September 15th to October
15th. After October 15th no gift
parcel may be mailed to a soldier
without the presentation of a
written request from him.
The great demands upon ship
ping and the need for giving
preference to arms, munitions,
medicine and food is the prime
reason for the early mailing
date. Moreover, gift parcels must
travel great distances to reach
Army and Navy personnel who :
are located at remote points, and
frequently the transfer of large
numbers to new stations necessi
tates forwarding of the packages
and additional time is required. ‘
“The response that our people
made last year during the over
seas mailing period demonstrated
that they will cooperate in any
^measure designed for the welfare
of our armed forces personnel,”
Mr. Walker said. “It is not easy
tb concentrate on Christmas gifts
in the midst of warm weather
here at home but our people rec
ognized the need, and because
they want the men and women
who are absent from their homes
to know that they are not for- j
gotten at Christmas they took 1
pains to assure prompt delivery
of Christmas gifts.
“1 know that our people will
observe the overseas mailing
schedule once more this year but
1 do wish to stress this fact:
More care must be taken in
wrapping and packing parcels
securely and addressing them
clearly and correctly.
“It, is not y pleasant thing to
visit a postal concentration cen
ter and' see the numbers o!
Chrisrhas parcels which will
never reach servicemen and ser
vicewomen. Post office personnel
have orders to do everything they
can to effect delivery of such
gifts, because we know how im
portant they are for the happi-,
ness of the armed forces. Too
frequently, nothing can be done.
“I am sorry that anyone ever
mentioned that the size of a shoe
box is the approximate Jim it for
packages intended for gift mail
ings overseas. Unhappily many
people became convinced that a
shoe box is the best possible con
tainer. We must be mindful that
these gifts must travel far, with
shipping space crowded. If the
gifts are to be protected in tran
sit they must be packed in boxes
made of metal, wood, solid fi
berboard, or strong double-faced
corrugated fiberboard. reinforced
with stong gummed paper tane
or tied with strong twine. If
both tape and strong twine are
used, so much the better. If the
outer wrapper is crushed—and
this is likely to happen—the loss
of contents may be prevented if
iiberboard brxes are wrapped in
heavy paper.
“We were unable to deliver
many parcels which families and
friends sent to men and women
overseas last year because they
were crushed in transit and the
gift and the outside wrapper be
came separated. We would have
been able to make delivery if
the address had been shown on
the inside wrapper. We advise
that everyone write the address
of the sender and addressee in
side the package as well as out
side.
“Christmas gifts mean much to
our people overseas. Because
strong twine, heavy paper and
boxes and fiberboard wall prove
of real help in making delivery
of gifts possible, I urge those at
home to begin saving these ma
terials now As time goes on
they are going to become even
more scarce than they are now.’’
GOLDEN SCHOOL DAYS
LONDON —(AP)— Britain’s
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ideal school for the future has
been established at Ashford
Kent, where 800 pupils attending
North Central school learn every
thing from reading and writ ng
to farming and instruction about
motor engines. There are no ex
aminations, no punishments and
no regulations.
TAKES NO CHANCES
CLARKSDALE Miss. — <AP>—
Dr. D. M. Davenport of nearby
Lyon is determined to have good
cotton crops “weather or no.” He
has invented a planter which de
posits seeds in the soil at two
depths simultaneously, so one
will grow whether there be
drought or excessive rainfall.
The Ganges canal has more
than 1,000 miles of main chan
nels and 3,000 miles of branch
channels.
OLD HOME WEEK
ON "ISLAND X"
ISLAND X —<APi— Smiling
upon a father and son in Uncle
Sam’s armed forces, Lady Luck
has brought the two together on
this tiny island somewhere in
one of the war theaters.
When Chief Boatswain’s Mate
H. T. Sherlock was in training at
Camp Peary, the U. S. Navy’s
Construction Training Center
near Williamsburg, Virginia, his
son, Pl'c. H. T. Sherlock, Jr., was
with the Marines at San Diego.
When Father Sherlock’s Seabee
; battalion moved to the West
, Coast for embarkation. Son Sher
; lock was enroute to Norfolk, Va.
| Shortly after the senior Sher
lock landed on this island, a con
i tlngent of Marines was sent to
the small dot on the 'map. Irt
the outfit was young Sherlock,
and now father and son are to
gether for the first time since
they enlisted.
SHOOT THEIR RATIONS
LARGO, Fla. —(AP)— In these
days of meat scarcity the Home
Makers Club was missing no bets.
A county r^ad patrolman shot a
black bear and the club took over
at that po.nt. Members canned 53
quarts of bear meat. They said
it tasted like beef.
The Hawaiian Islands w’ere
formed by lava shooting up
from a crack in the bottom of the
ocean, three miles down.
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