Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1929, Page 45

FOREIGN POSTAL SERVICE GROWS Average of Four Letters Per Capita Are Received in United States. Do you recfll\o four letters from abroad every year? Do you send four letters to foreign eountries every year? During 1928 an average of four let- ters and post cards went out of the' country and four came in for_every man, woman and child in the United States. Tests disclose that the number of articles. mot counting parcel post, that enter_the international mail bags of {he United" States number nearly & lion. 40,000,000 Pounds of Mail. “The weight of mail going from the United States across the Atlantic in one year alone totals 40,000,000 pounds,” says a bulletin of the National Geo- aphic Soclety from its headquarters ere. “The Leviathan, with her entire car- go-carrying capacity devoted to mall, would have to make nine trips to trans- port the mass of mail that goes to Eu- Tope annually. “Foreign malil, it used to be called, and the section of the Post Office De- rlnment that handled it, the division of foreign mails. No more! Perhaps it is because it has grown up; because it han- dles eight letters now for every four handled in 19: At any rate, the divi- sion has acquired a new name. When an American addresses a letter to Chique Chigue, Bahai, Brazil or Hodmezova- sarhely, Hungary, he now intrusts it to the international postal service of the Post Office Department. clearing house for the world, and has Bern, Switzerland. Alr Mail Now Counts. “The international postal service of the Post Office Department has expanded npldly in the last few years. Its growth been due, ly, to the doubling oo quantity of American_interna- tional ‘mail in séven years. It is due alsp to the launching of international A urvlces which have begun to carry 'l'he international postal service now places mail aboard planes traveling on six routes out of the United States. It loads planes in New York with mail that v\ill be delivered six days later in Buenos Aires, cutting former travel- ing time by two weeks. Within the next year it expects to be regularly sending and receiving mail by still another long Pan-American route around the east coast of South America. “Sea post service is now maintained by 51 clerks on 46 vessels sailing the Atlantic or Pacific Qceans. “New York City. sends and receives more oversea letters than any other American city. While the rating of other cities in international mail is not known for certain, it is believed to run approximately in this manner: Chicago, Philadelphia, Buflllo St. Loul& S8an Francisco and Washin N gmhleml of ts headquarters at ROYAL ARCH MASONS NAME HEADS FOR YEAR||! Colored Group Is Headed by Louis | W. Roy as Senior Grand High Priest. Announcement was made yesterday of the annual election of the Grand Chap- ter, Holy Royal Arch Masons, of the District of Columbia, a colored group. These men were chosen: Louis W. Roy, senior grand high priest; Harry McKenzie, grand deputy: Ralph J. Barbour, grand king: Samuel ||/ J. Blackburn, grand scribe; Nathaniel | Robinson, grand treasurer, and Allen | A. C. Griffith, grand secretary. Charles | THE EVENING Squadron 7, attached to the Naval Al Station at San Diego, Calif. The award is being given this year under new rules, whereby the squadron or unit, n-m.ud of an individual, is FISHER WILL RECEIVE TROPHY FROM HOOVER %1 of 615935 ho\ml.fl R“{h?m Naval Lientenant Will- Accept e iy tha. emize Navy Schiff Award on Behalf of E: Dyer. U. 8. N. who won the s 1638 Schift Trophy, wis one of the Training Squadron. officers serving under Lieut. Fisher dur- ing the past i % soae. Fisher, T xon Hill, President Hoover -will present the|Md., was born Herbert Schiff Trophy, awarded to the. squadron or unit making the ‘best recérd for safety during the year in aviation, to Lieut. Thomas Geary Fisher, U. 8. N., at noon tomorrow at the White House. Licut. Fisher commanded - Training enter the Naval Academy. executive officer of VB Squadron 2. tached to the U.-8. 8. 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