Newspaper Page Text
THE WEATHER.
Rain late Friday night, or Saturday
afternoon: warmer tonight. Tempera
tures Friday (taken at A. K. Hawkes
Co’s store): 9 a. m., 37 degrees: 10
a. m„ 10 degrees: 12 noon, (4 degrees;
I p. m.. 46 degrees.
The Atlanta Georgian
**Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN”
AND NEWS
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
-SPOT COTTON.
Atlanta, quint; 8 X6-16. Liverpool, easier;
5.01. New York, quiet; 9.25. Savannah,
quiet; 8%. Augusta, steady; 9U. Gal
veston, quiet; 9U. Norfolk, steady; 8\.
Charleston, quiet; Memphis, quiet;
9-V Mobile, steady; 8 11-16.
VOL. X. NO. 128.
HOME(4TH) EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1911. HOME(4TH) EDITION PRICE:
WILL GIVE GLAD HAND
TO VISITING MERCHANTS
Harvester, Shipping, and the
Money Combines To Be Put
Thru an Investigation.
RULES COMMITTEE’S PLAN
Steel Affair Small in Impor
tance to the One That Is to
Come, Says Chairman.
Washington, Dee. 29.—A sweeping
Investigation of the Harvester trust, the
.hipping trust and the money trust
will be authorised by the rules com
mittee of the house. Chairman Henry
announced today that Mfh Investigation
would start tn January and that It will
be the most complete undertaking by
congress since the Civil war.
The steel committee Investigation,
said Chairman Henry. In small In im
portance to the Investigation now being
planned. . . ,
"Senator LaFollette and others claim
a little more than a dozen men control
the finances, the railroad., find the
.hipping’of the country,” he said. "We
have no desire to Injure legitimate
business, but if this condition is true
It should be Investigated rigidly. As
chairman of this committee. I shall de
mand Investigations and you can not
put it too strong that the money trust,
the Harvester trust and the shipping
mist axe to go on the grill. One com
mittee with full powers and ample
funds may conduct the Investigation of
all three trusts, as they seem to be
closely interwoven.’’ .
Going After B'g Guns.
The trust investigation means that
the leading financiers of the country
Included J. Plerpont Morgan and his
associates are to be’summoned to ap
pear before the congressional commit-
t«\
< 'hair-man Henry requested from Sec-
rotary Nagel today a reply to the com
mittee's Invitation asking the secre
tary of commerce and labor to appear
and tell what he knows of a shipping
combine. Secretary Nagel will appear
before the rules committee January 16.
Attorney General Wlckersham and
Samuel Untermeyer. the latter a noted
corporation lawyer, are also expected
tn be present on that day and the rules
committee probably will ordor the triple
Investigation Immwjtately thereafter.
"I received a Totter today from-a
witness who wants to appear January
said Mr. Henry. “I have notified
him that the rules committee will not
watt that long to order the investiga
tion, and have suggested that he get
here January 15 Instead.”
What It Will Tackle.
The drastic probo planned by the
committee will seek to determine the
truth of tho following charges:
That acarcclv a doxen Wall Street
financiers dominato the money market,
make and unmake panics, control rail
roads and Insurance companies and
manipulate a chain of banks.
That theBC same Interests dominato
the Harvester trust, said to be closely
allied with the steel trust.
That these same men are Influential
tn the International shipping trust, al
leged to control #0 per cent of the ship
ping business between this and foreign
countries, and they actually dominato
trans-continental railroads. —-
Supplementary trust legislation, saya
chairman Henry, will depend largely
upon the evidence brought out before
the speclat committee.
lAFttmilS
WRITES MSEVELT
Attacks President for Abrogat
ing Russian Treaty Without
Review at The Hague.
EDITORIAL IN THE OUTLOOK
J. K. ORR.
He was re-elected chairman of the
Merchants and Manufacturers associa
tion at the annual meeting Thursday
night, when plans for entertaining
country customers were begun.
Merchants and Manufacturers
to Entertain Customers of
Their Territory.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
Annual Meeting at New Kimball
Brings Enthusiastic Indorse
ment of the Project.
Pending Treaties Would Put the
Nation in “Attitude of Unctu
ous and Odious Hypocrisy.”
■That the psychological time Is here
for Atlanta to entertain the merchants
lof "Georgia and the South was TpM
unanimous opinion of-fhe members of
the Atlanta Merchants and Manufac
turers association at their mutual din
ner Thursday night at the N0\v Kim
ball house.
"Let’s go to It!” said President J. K.
Orr, after he had presented the recom
mendation ' of the board of directors
Ithat tho Merchants' Trade Week be
held In February during the uutomo
bile week. And the 60 representative
wholesale merchants of Atlantn did “go
to It" with a hearty good will, and
their enthusiasm over the prospect was
Inspiring. "The Atlanta Spirit.” that
has never known fallure.wus predomi
nant In the snappy speeches and Initla
tlon of the plans for the Merchants!
Trade Week. Some of the speakers
called It a "Gala Week,” and others
broadened it to "Merchants' Conyeu-I
tlon.”
Three pleasant hours were spent at a
happy get-together dinner, and In the
presentation and hearty indorsement
of the plan to bring here snd enter-
jtaln hundreds of merchants of the
Continued on Last Page.
New York, Dec. 29.—In an editorial
entitled “The'Russian Treaty, Arbitra
tion and Hypocrisy," published In the
current Issue of Tho Outlook, ex-Pres-
ldent Theodore Roosevelt again attacks
President Taft’s policies, declaring that
the president Is wrong In abrogating
the Russian treaty of 1832 without
awaiting official Interpretation of The
Hague International court and assert
ing that ratification of the Taft arbitra
tion treaties as they now stand will put
us as a nation In “an attitude of unc-
tlous and odious hypocrisy:’’
Colonel Roosevelt says that while he
approves of the action taken by con
gress In abrogating the treaty, he Is
of the opinion that It would have been
wiser first to submit the covenant to
The Hague court for Interpretation.
That, he Bays, would have enabled Rus.
sla to retire from an untenable position
with good graco and no loss of self-
respect—"an object that should al
ways be held in view in dealing with
any foreign nation.”
Here Is What He 8ays.
The ex-president then goes on, after
his vigorous fashion, aa follows:
"But this action was taken while the
universal arbitration treaties are pend
ing In the senate. These treaties are
avowedly championed as being of the
kind we are to enter into with all na
tions and as supplanting tho existing
arbitration treaties which we have with
almost all nations. Including Russia,
well as England and France. These
treatlua, If ratified by the senate un
amended, will explicitly promise, will
explicitly pledge the honor and good
faith of the American nation to arbi
trate precisely such questions as that
■which at this moment we announce
that win not endeavor to arbitrate In
the case of Russia. Under the elr-
Ice Men Invade Atlanta
Offer Keen Competition
U ENTRIES
FROM II STATES
High Quality Show Is Assured
at the Auditorium-Armory
January 8 to 13.
GREAT WYANDOTTE CLASS
H-M-’-H-I-K-H-i-i-H-d-H-S-H-H-d-?-
♦ DR. 8UN SENDS MESSAGE *
•J* TO LOVERS OF LIBERTY *
- Nanking, Deo, 29,—Following his $
4" election to the presidency of tho d-
4* republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat +
4* Sen today aent the following mes- +
-!• sage to lovers of liberty and his +
4* friends In the United States and +
+ elsewhere:
+ ”1 consider It my duty to accept 4*
+ the presidency. My policy will be +
+ to obtain peace and a stable gov- 4*
4* ernment by the promptest methods 4*
4* possible. My single aim Is to In- +
4- sure the peace and contentment of +
4> the millions of my fellow country- +
4- men.” *
Well Over 3,000 Birds Will Be
on Display at Georgia Poul
try Association Show!
Neither Senator Nor the Ohio
Republican State Chairman
Will Repeat Conversation.
CONFERENCE WITH BROWN
•4-k
■ llinilM-H.
* MICHIGAN GOVERNOR GETS *
ON THE LAFOLLETTE WAGON +
* Lansing, Mich.. Da*. 29^-Gov- +
f *mor Osborne has accepted the
b Invitation of Robert Roberts, the +
f Mirht^nn manager of the LaFol- *r
lette presidential boom, to preside *r
at a LaFOllette meeting In Lansing f
Tuertay night and Introduce the
{• Wisconsin senator.
Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 29.—Neither Wal
Tr Brown, state chairman of the Ohio
"Publican committee, nor Senator
tobert M. LaFOllette, today would die-
fuss the details of their conference,
telil behind closed doors last night, but
! is known that Ohio politics was dis
used and that the conference was
flight by Walter Brown, who was re-
“illy read out of the progressive
ovoment because of his persistency In
“tvo-atlng the candidacy of Theodore
; -">sevelt for the Republican nomtna-
i'ot in 1912. The word haa-gone out
"'iay that Brown has trted to make
-are with the nrogresslves.
"R made no overture! of any kind,"
aid Brown today, but It Is not denied
v him that he will support LaPollette
|lie latter Is nominated.
■ Sf nator LaFollette, highly elated, but
p -ommittaL left here today for
'"' th Baltimore and addressed a meet-
j* at noon, dealing with practically
* '“me Issues as In his previous Ohio
Tonight he addresses a
*’ 1 ri ng in Dayton.
IHBEEFEHTM.
Federal Judge Carpenter Re^
fuses to Grant a Motion to
Exclude Testimony.
ATTORNEYS ARGUE POINT
Chicago, Dec. 29.—The ten million
aire packers on trial for violations of
tha Sherman anti-trust law received
another reverse today when Federal
Judge Carpenter refused to grant their
motion to exclude testimony tending to
show that they control by-products
concerns of the packing Industry and
allowed the testimony to go before the
Jurors at least temporarily.
Argument on the motion of the attor.
neya for the packers was resumed when
court convened today. The testimony
at Issue-.tends to"show that tho beef
trust dominates tho butterlne and oleo
oil business was delayed. At the re
quest of the attorneys, the Jury was
excluded from the room and spent the
morning In their quarters In the Fed
eral buildings while the argument was
under way.
Plsaa for Packers.
Attorney John Barton Payne spoke
for the packers In support of the mo
tion. which was ipectllcally that testi
mony concerning the purchase of the
Kenwood and Aetna companies and
their control by the National Packing
Company be stricken out. The defense
contended that these concerns dealt in
the manufacture of by-products and the
evidence tended to support the charge
In the Indictment that the defendants
were in Illegal combination.
Attorney Payne argued that since the
Kenwood concern was engaged In the
manufacture of oleo oil, If the price of
that commodity was alfeeted by the
alleged combination and that constltut.
ed a violation of the Sherman law. It
would be an entirely separate offense
from the ones charged In the Indict-
nn»nt. *
Government attorneys argued that by
showing the packers controlling the by-
COntinued on List Pace
tratlon treaties would put the American
peoplo in an attttudo of peculiarly con
temptible hypocrisy and would rightly
expose us to the derision of all think
ing mankind, for 'we should put our
selves, in the position of making sweep,
lng and Insincere promises, impossible
of performance at tho very time when
we by our own actions showed that wo
would not keep such promises nor
translate them Into action.”
Oppose, Tha>« Treaties.
The ex-president says that such
questions os passports, Asiatic itnml
gratlon In ‘ Massachusetts, the principle
Involved In the Monroe doctrine and the
refusal. by the states to .pay bonds,
should never be put Into an arbitration
treaty. After saying that he believed
most earnestly in peace, ho continues:
"And I oppose these treaties because,
If unamended they would surely tell
against peace and would put us as a
nation Into an attitude of odious hypoc
rlsy.
"In other words. It would put this
country Into a position both ridiculous
and discreditable to pass the proposed
general arbitration treaties at the same
time that we. depounce our general
treaty with Russia.”
Colonel Roosevelt says that the ar
bitration treaties are nothing but gen
eral promises nnd that they are drawn
up In such sweeping and vague terms,
especially In the use of the word "Jus
tifiable,” that they might. In any con
crete case, bo held to mean anything
or nothing.
If the action taken by our govern
ment In the Russian matter was not
a violation of the principle of the arbi
tration treaties, says Colonel Roosevelt,
then the latter are not worth the paper
they are written on.
The paper concludes by saying that
It Is arrant hypocrisy for the United
Staten tn support the arbitration trea
ties as they stand and at the same time
annul the Russian treaty of 1832.
"Hypocrisy Is revolting In a nation
as In a man,” says he "and In the long
run I do believe that It pays either
man or nation."
An unofficial count of the birds that
will be displayed at the Great Central
Show of the South at the Auditorium
Armory, January 8 to 13, showed 2,035
head of chickens already In sight—and
more to come, in this count no atten
tlon was paid to the ducks, turkeys and
pigeons. In which divisions the entry Is
very largo and strong. It Is easy to
demonstrate, therefore, that when all
the entries are In there will be well over
3,000 birds of various sorts on exhibi
tion in the Auditorium-Armory.
Secretary Charles Harwell returned
Friday mornlnr from Winder, where he
Judged the show there, and has settled
down to the tough Job of classifying the
enormous lot of entries notV on-hand.
Secretary Harwell, by tho way, reports
an unusually good show at Winder, for
a first attempt; and states without
qualification that the enthusiasm shown
there in their own show. In poultry
breeding and In the forthcoming Atlan
ta show had passed all bounds. “One
woman told me,” said Mr. Harwell,
"that tho morning of the Winder show
she gave her husband a coal scuttle
and sent him to the cellar for coal. The
chlckon- struck citizen walked i
to the well, .carefully pumped tl
scuttle full of water and returned It
gravely to his spous}.
"Tills la a fair, sample," added Mr.
Harwell, “of what poultry enthusiasm
la doing to Winder."
High Clala of Entries.
The entries coming In now art* prov
ing most welcome bees use of the high
class of birds that arc being named,
The Khnballrille Farm entry, turned
In, by Will V. Zimmer, proved one of
the largest of the show. Mr. Zimmer
has entered 23 pigeons, and the varie
ties shown will Include White, Work
and Show Homers, Runts, Carriers:
Polish Lynx and Runt Maltese Squab.
In the poultry division the Kimball
Farm exhibit will includo White Or
pingtons, White Leghorns, White and
Fawn Indian Runner ducks.
The White Id-ghorn class suffered
from a sudden Influx of top-notch class
when the entry of J. P. Swift A Son,
of Waynesvllle, N. C., was.made. This
company named eight Individuals and
two pens, and If reports that have
reached Atlanta are true thla lot will
rut a vast deal of figure when the
time cornea for awarding the prizes.
Welcome entries on Friday morning
were those of V. A. Ham. of Nownan,
Ga. They Included five singles and a
pen of Buff Orpingtons, and two Indi
viduals and two pens of White Orping
tons.
J. M. Karwlsch, of Atlanta, has en
tered 30 White Rocks, and will of course
have some prize-winners .In the lot. His
entry Is always an exceptionally strong
one.
The Barred Rock class picked up
some strong entries when Julian Mr-
Camy, of Dalton, named some of his
wonderfully good birds. He win show
In Atlanta some of tho Rocks he ex
hibited at the recent Madison Bquare
Garden show.
One of the exceptionally large en
tries thus far received wna that of E.
E. Mack, of Thomasville, who will show
♦1 birds. He will show White Wyan-
dottes, Buff and Black Orpingtons, In
dian Runner Ducks and Buff Cochin
Bantams.
One of the strong features of the
Continued on Last Page.
BUYS THREE PLANTS
Pays $150,000 for One, $100,-
000 for Another—Price of
Vhird Is Withheld.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen Is President of
Eighteen Federated Prov
inces Forming Compact.
MANCHU DYNASTY DYING
Rebel Soldiers Guard Head of
the Provisional Government.
He Formally Accepts.
Nanking, Dec. 29.—The republic of
Chinu, tho first government of the na
ture In the Orient, officially came Into
being today with the election of Dr.
Sun Yat Sen as president Altho the
republic as It stands today consists
only of eighteen federated provinces,
tho leaders in the republican movoment
declare that the Manchu dynasty has
only a few more weeks, and perhaps
days, of official existence. •
The delegates to the provisional mil
itary assembly acted without waiting
for a national convention to decide
what form of government should pre
vail In the future.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who left China as a
political exile, but who comes back ns
tho Idol of the bulk of the 400,000,000
Continued on Last Page.
ER MERGE
AGAINST CUTJN STOCK
Urges Railroad Commission to
Hear Arguments and Per
mit Issue as Requested.
Asserting that the railroad commis
sion's order of December 15, cutting the
proposed stock and bond Issue of the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
from 157,000,000 to $47,000,000, will crip,
pie the contemplated Improvements, at.
?ys for tho hydro-electric merget
filed a petition with the commission
Friday morning requesting a chance to
argue the question again.
Shortly after the petition was placed
In the hands of the commissioners sn
order was Issued setting January 4 as
the date for a hearing.
To finance the merger of the Georgia
Railway and Electric Company and the
Georgia. Power Company,-Including the
Bull Sluice, Gainesville and Tallulah
Falls power plants and the acquisition
of various other properties, the com
pany's attorneys asked the commission
to approve a stock and bond issue of
257,000,000. Of this. $30,000,000 was to
Continued on Lost Page.
DEALS CLOSED ON FRIDAY
Southern Ice Company, Headed
by the Howe Family, to Cut
Into Atlanta Territory.
That the lee kings are to battle for
supremacy In Atlanta territory la evi
dent from the purchase by the South
ern Ice Company of Nashville, Tenn,
of the' Ice plant of the Atlanta Oil and
Fertilizer Company for $150,000; the
East Atlanta Ice Company's plant for
2100,000, and the Independent Ice Com
pany, oft Whltehall.it, on the Central
hoad. for a price not yet known. The
last deal, that for the Atlanta Oil and
Fertilizer Company’s lee plant, was
closed Friday afternoon.
Tho Southern Ice Company of Nash
ville Is a $5,000,000 corporation, re
cently organized by the great Howe In
terests, and Its coming Into the Atlanta
territory was told exclusively by The
Georgian several months ago.
The ice plant of the Atlanta OH and
Fertilizer Compony Is located seven
miles out on the Seaboard Air line, and
Its purrhase by ths Southern Ice Com
pany In no wise affects the oil nnd
fertlllzsr business of the Atlanta Oil
and Fertilizer Company.
The field In this.section has been so
profitable for the Atlantic Coal and Ice
Corporation, which-is said to havo re
cently declared a most substantial div
idend, that the Southern Ice Company
decided there Is plenty of profit for both
of tho great corporations. The Atlanta
Coal and Ice Company Is now spending
an appropriation of $560,000 here and tn
other cities to improve Its plants and
Increase Its capacity.
Whether It will retaliate by going
Into the home Held of the Southern Ice
Company remains to be seen.
The Nashville company Is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of several
other plants
HEIRESS-BRIDE
Former Atlantan Ran Awav
With Miss Margaret Brown,
Wealthy Philadelphian.
THEY MET AT CONVENTION
Roby Robinson’s Brother One
of Co-Stars in a Romance
Ending in Cincinnati.
The elopement of Hugh Robinson, a
former Atlanta boy and a brother ( ,f
Roby Robinson, with Miss Margaret
Brown, a Philadelphia heiress, is graph-
lcally told In The Cincinnati Enquirer
of Thursday. Young Robinson left At
lanta about four years ago for New
York. He was manager of the South
ern Guarantee Loan Company In At
lanta. The Enquirer's story, with i
dispatch from Philadelphia, follows:
b °' d Lochlnvnr ever won his fair
W* n,or ° romantically than Hugh
Robinson, of New York, director r,i
agencies for the U. S. Casualty Coni
was’ r *wsfE a ’ , 1* < \,J hC cii ,r1 ^ 0 t0 whom !!.
d n t Ki tho SI " ton hotel last
not"! f; ®° Wn »°n. who is a brother ol
Roby Robinson, former vice president
rSiJSSSSi 1 ? a . nasrer of T he Atlanta
Constitution, but now in tho banking
SSS1L Atla i? ta ’ 0a - 18 93 years Old,
??,“* w months ago he met and won
Miss Margaret J. Brown, tho prettv
daughter of Albert T. Brown, of Phila
delphia, head of the Philadelphia
pany* POrta t* on und lighterage Com-
m Ml i** ?'^ >wn »*■ “too young.” ac
cording to her parents, and the mar-
rlage seemed a long way off, until Rob-
lnson started West on a business trip
w^htl ! ft ! r Christmas. Cincinnati
j** hl * Oret objective point nnd ar-
|} ero he, looked up Charles K.
CritcTiell, well known florist, who was
a resident of Atlanta for a number of
yenrs. and became acquainted with
Robinson there. He also had other
friends here, and gntherod about hln;
Harry Asman, councilman; Enii!
Hchmutte and J. o. Bchmutto ns well.
Then he sent a telegram asking Miss
Brown to Join him here and bo mar-
rlca.
TAFT WILL ANNOUNCE
NEW JUSTICE JAN. 11
Washington, Dee. 29.—The nomlna-t
tlon of the member of the supreme
court to nil the vacancy caused by the
death of Justice Harlan will be made
about January II, when Attorney Gen
eral Wlckersham returns from Panama.
Tho appointment has narrowed down
to William C. Hook, of the Eighth Ju
dicial circuit, and Bnrretary of Com
merce and Labor Charles Nagel. The
former probably will be chosen.
The president has told a number o(
friends that he will make a number of
other nominations tn the Judiciary on
the same day tho supreme court ap
pointment Is madn.
They Planned Big Trade Week For Atlanta
The answer Soon came that she had
slipped,away and was cn.route here.
-Robinson went to Steubenville. Ohio,
whore he met the train which wits
bearing his bride-to-be to him, and ac
companied her on to this city nnd to
the Blnton hotel. Arrived here, his
friends had arranged everything
George P. Carrel, chief deputy In the
probate court, was summoned nnd an
auto took the party to the court house,
where the license was Issued. Hack t->
the Slnton the party went, nnd there,
In the parlors. Rev. Hugo Klsenlolir
made the couple one.
Just ns the newly married rouple
turned to their friends for congratula
tions a stranger appeared with a war
rant for-the arrest of Robinson on :\
faked-up charge of bigamy.
"Why, surely you have made a mis
take," came tremblingly from the lips
of Robinson.
"No. There Is no mistake. You arc
Hugh Robinson, aren't you?”
"W-w—well, -y-y-yes, I g-g-guess I
am; b-b-but I n-never was m-m-mar-
ried b-b-before. t-t-that I k-know of.”
Then In an aside to one of his friends:
■Can't we give this fellow a hundred
or so to close him up?”
This was more than ths Jokers could
stand, and loud Inughter awoke the
"put one over” on him. and for the re-
"put one over” on him,” and for the re
mainder of the evening there was win -
and a-plenty for all responsible for thn
Joke.
Met at a Convention.
Philadelphia, Pa„ Dec. 29.—The mar.
rlage In Cincinnati of Miss Margtarct
’J, Brown, the nineteen-year-old daugh
ter of Albert F. Brown, president of th -
Philadelphia Transportation and Light -
erngc Company, and for years a promi
nent figure In local transportation cir
cles, and Hugh Robinson, of New York,
was the culmination of r roman- ■
which had Its Inceptlon.at the conrm-
Uon of the Atlantic Deeper Waterwaj ■
association at Richmond, Va., scarcely
two months ago.
Miss Brown, who will not be twentv
years of age for several months, acenm'.
panted by her father, who was a dele
gate from a Philadelphia commercial
organisation to the convention, nnd In
enjoying the hospitalities extend- -! m
the Virginia hosts of the conventi-m
met Robinson, who Is said here tn I, -
active In transportation circles of Nov
York. Apparently It was a case of lev e
first sight, but Miss Brown's par, nt.
frowned on her marriage, because ,>*
her youth and because they wanted to
know more about her lover.
Yesterday morning Robinson came t..
Philadelphia, combining pleasure wit!
business, and summoned Miss Rrov n
from hsr home to the Bellevue-.Sir., ■.
ford hotel by telenhone. Miss nro,™
did not return home, and the anxiety ,.f
her parents over her mysterious 'ab
sence was only partially allayed by tit •
receipt of a telegram today from Cin
cinnati telling of her marriage to Rob
inson, and asking parental forgiven-.-
and a blessing. At the Brown horn
at 1319 Jeffereon-st., this evening th.
youthful bride’s parents did not se- .u
to be In a forgiving mood, but an ac
commodating brother-in-law courteous
ly told ali he knew of the love affair an !
elopement.
CHRISTMAS CARDS POUR
INTO THE “NIXIE” OFFICE
Washington, Dse. 29.—One hundred
and seventy-live thousand tinsel and
mlea poet cards, bearing Christmas
greetings have found their way lnt->
the dead letter office of the postoffle,
department, and more are pouring In
hourly. This Is the rr<ult of a poets!
regulation making iniea and tlns-l
cards unmaitable ■ • eopt in envelopes.
Man/ postal employees have gone blind
fr.-m, h; ndllnv this --I.,, tnalL