service it rendered to our soldiers abroad during the war. Thousands of subscriptions were made to it for our troops, and it carried the news of the world right up to the firing line. The Thrice-a-Week World publishes all the important news of both Morning and Evening World in a condensed form, and for that reason it has long been popular in every part of the United States.

The World maintains a Syndicate Department through which the leading newspapers in every section of the country are supplied with original World comic, literary and special features and The World's comprehensive foreign and domestic news service. Regarding the latter, Mr. A. H. Vandenberg, Editor of the Grand Rapids, (Mich.) Herald, voluntarily wrote on July 24, 1918: "I want to congratulate you upon the work you are doing in this connection and to thank you for the assistance you are thus rendering the interior press of the country."

During the year The World continued as part of its bit in carrying on the war work of the country, the printing of the eight page edition of Trench and Camp, the national soldiers' weekly, published by the Y. M. C. A., for Camp Upton, Don C. Seitz, Business Manager of The World, acting as publisher of the Camp Upton edition and George L. Moore of the Y. M. C. A., being its editor at Camp Upton, while 7. Otis Swift of The World was its Managing Editor.

BUREAU OF ACCURACY AND FAIR PLAY.

The World's Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play completed the fifth year of its existence in July. Its primary purpose, as declared at the outset, was to promote accuracy and fair play, to correct carelessness and to stamp out fakes and fakers. All complaints involving these questions, including libel actions, are turned over to the Bureau and carefully inquired into, and if they are found to be well grounded, corrections are made and at the same time the writers responsible for the errors are placed on record. Faking and chronic carelessness are punished by dismissal. In actual practice the idea has worked out very well. Members of The World staff and its correspondents everywhere have worked in harmony with the Bureau which has now become a fixed institution. The World's example has been followed by many other newspapers throughout the country.

Inspired by the true spirit of fair play, the Bureau has created good will and confidence often even when complainants had in the beginning been 'itter and resentful. When material damage has resulted from erroneous publications and the person injured has shown a willingness to arbitrate in good faith and upon a reasonable basis, settlements have been made without recourse to the courts. The Rev. Dr. Daniel Bliss characterized the operations of The World's Bureau as "the Golden Rule applied to Journalism.”

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But the Bureau has sharp claws and knows when and how to use them for defensive purposes. long ago learned that there are lawyers in New York who make a specialty of stirring up libel litigation and who seemingly are not averse to representing criminals and otherwise disreputable characters who often bring suits on perjured complaints. And whenever attempts have been made to recover damages in these cases The World has spared neither trouble nor expense in fighting to the last ditch. As a result some lawyers have been disbarred or suspended from practice and several notoriously crooked litigants have been sent to prison. The sharp claws of the Bureau are supplemented by an abnormally long reach. It may call upon World correspondents in any or every corner of the civilized world for information. The telegraph, the cable and the wireless are at its disposal. It has sent its own trained investigators throughout the United States from Maine to California, to Canada, Mexico and South America and to Great Britain and all the principal countries of Europe. In one particular instance, to establish the truth of an article complained of, a representative of the Bureau journeyed more than 8,000 miles.

The World prints for its employees a monthly office magazine called The World Forum, which was started January 1, 1913, to give the young artists and writers on The World a chance to develop their talents and at the same time to make interesting reading of the current events in the lives of The World employees. This paper sells for five cents per copy and all money taken is deposited in the Emigrant Savings Bank for the benefit of the employees. All the cost of getting out the paper is paid by The World.

There were during the year over 150 men from The World at the front, six of them being wounded and five killed.

Through The World's Department of Missing People, established ten years ago as an assistance to people who have lost communication with relatives, or whose daughters, sons, husbands, wives or parents have disappeared, hundreds of missing people have been found and communication established between friends and relatives, who have not known of each other's whereabouts, in some instances for many years. In many instances lost dear ones were returned to people who could not afford the cost of advertising for them or conducting expensive searches, and in other cases where all efforts to locate them by advertising and through regular civil authorities had failed. Any one wishing to locate lost relatives or friends had but to write to J. Otis Swift, Editor of Missing People's Department, The World, Park Row, New York, giving description of the missing person, when he disappeared, etc., and asking that information be asked of his whereabouts in the column about missing people in The Sunday World.

SUNDAY WORLD MAGAZINE A GREAT POPULAR WEEKLY.

The Sunday World Magazine in 1918 reached the highest point of its development as a popular lustrated weekly vitalized with the universal timely interest of a great national daily newspaper. The thrilling panorama of the world war, the literature, art, music, fashions, fiction, travel, adventure, sport, science, humors of the day-and above all, picturesque or inspiring personalities as they come into the public eye-all these are summarized in such a way as to make each number "an abstract and brief chronicle of our time." Outstanding World Magazine features of 1918 were: A series of specially detailed war maps and bird's-eye views, including the western front, Verdun, the American Sector, the Queant Switch, Germany's Supreme Defense Line, and Louis Biedermanu's unique indexed panoramic views, in colors, of Paris and Metz; the series of six articles under the title of "My Eighteen Months in Sing Sing Death House," being the poignant personal narrative of Charles F. Stielow; the sensational true story of the celebrated Baff case, a serial surpassing fiction, told under the title of "'Murder Will Out" the intimate personal narrative of the notorious Goldsol; "Splinters From a Doughboy's Diary," Training Camp Sketches by Private Hadley of the Marines, the Ground and Lofty Adventures of "Chateau" Joe Stehlin, and Herb Roth's self-illustrated letters of a Sea-Going Artist in the Navy; Bercovici's racy sketches of New York Life at Odd Angles; the big three novels of the season, complete"A Nest of Spies," "The House of Whispers," and "The Moving Finger."

The Assay Office is a weekly heart-to-heart talk about practical efficiency in all sorts of everyday business, for men and women. Favorite pictures-and-text series, unique in this Magazine, have been: Gordon Ross's "Betty Manhattan," Alfred Frueh's caricatures of stage celebrities: Samuel Cahan's Scenes: of Hebrew Life in New York City, and Enrique Hine's Un-Natural History Humoresques. The color reproductions of contemporary art have included works by Blakelock, F. W. Benson, E. H. Blashfield,

Mortimer Block, Robert W. Chanler, Mathilde de Cordoba, Jo Davidson, Dines Carlsen, Degas, Warren B. Davis, Van D. Perrine, Helene Perdriat, Percival Rosseau, Albert Herter, Augustus V. Tack, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Wm. Zorach. In music, among many other features, the ten big Broadway song hits of the season were included.

THE WORLD'S GRAVURE SECTION.

Many notable photographs of the war were published exclusively during the year in The Sunday World's Gravure Section. Through it were presented Captain Rodolfo Serrao's wonderful pictures made at the Italian front, the first action pictures showing how a hydro-aeroplane is launched from a battleship and two internationally important photographs of a German U boat in a Spanish port. The biggest. --photograph ever made, "The Capture of Vimy Ridge," exhibited in Paris, was reproduced as a page-wide --picture. The perils of the American patrol in European waters wère portrayed in remarkable snapshots sent The World by Herb Roth, one of its artists serving in the navy. Two pages that attracted wide attention showed accidents in aviation, and every phase of military life was adequately pictured, including many photographs taken under fire at the risk of the photographers' lives.

The Editorial Section of The Sunday World has maintained its standing as the recognized forum through which leading thinkers express their views. During the year Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries, Cabinet Ministers and men identified with industry and commerce, have spoken through this medium. A list of contributors would show such names as Secretary Lane, Stephane Lauzanne, Ambassadors Penfield-and Morgenthau.

SUNDAY WORLD FIELD DAYS HELPED WIN THE WAR.

During the past thirteen years The Sunday World has maintained a special bureau through which it has systematically encouraged athletics, nature study, gardening, walking tours and other forms of healthful and useful recreation among the pupils of the public schools of New York City. As a special inducement to children to take part in these games and contests, The Sunday World offered prizes ranging from solid gold and sterling silver medals to bronze pins and banners. In carrying on this work The Sunday World had the close co-operation of the Department of Education, the Public Schools Athletic League, the Vacation Playgrounds Association and the Parks and Playgrounds Association. General George W. Wingate announced on September 22 that 12,876 New York City boys who had won Sunday World prizes in P. S. A. L. athletic contests were fighting in France. **It is impossible," he said, "to conceive all the benefits the young men of to-day have derived from these field days. Our boys have grown up strong, healthy and active, superior by far to boys of other cities where little or no attention was paid to the physical development of the school children. Outside of New York City only one young man in three was able to pass the physical test for enlistment. In New York City the statistics are reversed. There was only one young man out of every three who couldn't pass."

The Sunday World co-operates with the School Garden Association and donates prizes for garden work and nature study at home, in parks and at the schools. Over 30,000 children were engaged in war garden work last summer as a result. The Vacation playground games, under the management of the Department of Education, provided athletic sports for thousands of school children at 120 playgrounds during the summer. The Sunday World supplied the prizes for these contests and also for the contests of the Parks and Playgrounds Association. The Sunday World Walking Club has squads in all parts of the city. All public schools, including high schools and evening schools, are allowed to compete for bronze and silver prizes offered to The Sunday World for walking tours. In addition to the prizes The Sunday World also furnishes tour maps and bulletins.

EVENING WORLD THE CHAMPION OF PROGRESS.

The year was a notable one for The Erening World, which first and foremost is the friend of the family that comes into every home where broad human views of life, the welfare of the State, the protection of the household, the proper uprearing of children and the progress of the race are taken seriously to heart. Always painstaking in selecting the news that should interest all members of the family, if it's of general interest to humanity, -one may be sure that "if it happens in Greater New York, it will be found in The Evening World." Its clean, well written, breezy and helpful pages have been, during the year, as always, the enemy of ennui. It has stood for public morality, for right and justice in the world struggle for liberty, and for the protection of the weak against possible encroachments of the strong and selfish. Its unexcelled news illustrations, its campaigns for reform. of publie evils, its many news beats, its ready word in the defense of those struggling for right against might, itschronicling of the heroism, pathos, tragedy and humor of the daily life of the world's greatest city, have made it a newspaper always welcome in the homes, offices and shops of its many readers. Its strong editorial page, superb sporting page, home and other special departments have made it a power for usefulness and good in the community. Following out its tradition of "an institution that should always fight for progress and reform," The Evening World during the year not only printed the news of the city, State, Nation and the all-absorbing world news of the battle of democracy against autocracy but its ear was constantly open to the appeals of the people for better conditions of labor, living and social life.

The children of The Evening World's Kiddie Klub and their parents, 7.500 strong, swarmed Luna Park, at Coney Island, on July 18, for their summer outing. Rain stopped their parade and kept them from the outdoor show, and kept away the unprecedented crowd expected, but their own Kiddie Klub Theatre had performances all the evening and the covered attractions were run at their best for the children. Kiddie Klub badges admitted to the resort and each child was allowed to bring one grownup friend. At the Kiddie Klub Theatre the children's admissions went to found the Kiddie Klub war chest for Kiddie Klub war orphans. The members of the club watched and acted in the performances that were staged. Miss Eleanor Schorer is the "Cousin Eleanor" of the Kiddie Dub.

The Evening World carried a campaign demanding the use of the $170,000,000 Barge Canal which had been built by the State. The railroads for years had been the rival carriers of the canal, and as was shown by The Evening World, little or no effort had been put forth to make any use of it in reducing the cost of living. Even the priority order for building barges had been stopped. When The Evening World drew attention to this backward step the priority orders were restored and a fleet of barges are being built. So vital had the issue grown when the election for Governor came up that Alfred E. Smith made this issue one of his platforms-the full development of the Barge Canal throughout New York and he was elected.

EVENING WORLD WON LONG FIGHT FOR PENNY SCHOOL LUNCHES. The Evening World's work for a complete system of penny lunches in public schools at last 7 ¿ceived recognition early in October, when it was announced that the Board of Education was to take over the penny lunches, and it was prophesied that the slogan so long used by The Evening World in its campaign-"No hungry child in a public school-food first for the school children!"-would become a verity.

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This measure was long advocated by this newspaper, which carried on the campaign that led to the present installation of penny lunches in the public schools. Up to the action taken by the Board of Education, which asked for $50,000 to be included in the 1919 budget for this purpose, The Evening World had emphasized the importance of penny lunches in the public schools.

EVENING WORLD UNCOVERS COAL SITUATION.

In the latter part of September The Evening World sent Sophie Irene Loeb to the coal regions of Pennsylvania to make an investigation of the coal situation, the consumers being apprehensive with the approach of winter, the known necessity of assisting America's allies in the war and with memories of coal scarcity during the previous winter. In her despatch of Sept. 28 she said: "There is no reason for shortage of coal in New York City; no reason for high prices except the greed of a few coal barons who control both the coal and railroads of the anthracite region. mined coal, to say nothing of the enormous culm banks which contain millions of tons of coal now lying They own thousands of acres of unon the surface of the earth within a half-day's ride from New York. separated from the slate and refuse and made ready for the market at a cost of a few cents per ton." This is coal that can be readily Following investigations and inquiries by The World and Evening World into the entire coal situation and the work of the Fuel Administration, an inquiry into the situation was commenced by the Senate Coal Committee in Washington after the findings of The Evening World had been presented to it.

The Evening World's Sporting Page during 1918 made a feature of service athletics. stories were used as a standard by the Commission on Training Camps Activities in its endeavors to Special camp create an athletic policy for the hundreds of thousands of boys in American cantonments. and William Abbott, in behalf of the Sporting Page, directed the Army 'Athletic Fund Show in Madison Robert Edgren Square Garden July 13 that netted $23,000 to the fund founded by the Commission on Training Camps Activities to purchase necessary athletic equipment for boys in khaki. This fistic carnival netted the greatest sum of all athletic benefits during the year. During the United War Workers' Campaign in November the Sporting Page donated a handsome set of prizes that were a feature of an athletic meet promoted during the week's drire.

EVENING WORLD EDITORIAL RECORD FOR 1918.

A series of editorials in The Evening World last spring on rent profiteering in this city led to a police census of vacant apartments in New York, followed by widespread discussion of rent problems und a marked falling off in the number of profiteering landlords.

Following the explosion in the Gillespie shell-loading plant at Morgan, N. J., The Evening World was the only newspaper in New York to insist upon the danger of concentrating explosives in such quantity close to the metropolitan area. At length a Congressional Commission was appointed to investigate the handling and storage of explosives in and about New York with a view to safeguarding the city against this danger.

The Evening World editorial suggestion that the churches offer their Sunday school rooms, social rooms, &c., to help out the overcrowded public schools while the war embargo against new school buildings remained in force was warmly approved and commended by the churches and by the city authorities. The Evening World was also the first New York newspaper to invite general action on the part of employers to assure immediate jobs for disabled soldiers when discharged.

Since the cessation of hostilities The Evening World has sought editorially to show labor the need of gauging money wages by the purchasing power of the money and to teach those elements of sound economics which are the surest safeguards against Bolshevism.

These special features of The Evening World editorial columns have been in addition to a broad and constant Evening World editorial policy reinforcing Evening World campaigns for a more adequate coal supply for New York, for lower milk prices, for the fuller utilization of the State's waterways to bring fuel, and food to this city, for curbs on the price-raising activities of gas companies, telephones and retail food profiteers.

Editorially, The Evening World's aim is first and foremost to fight for whatever will show itself in increased practical opportunity, convenience, comfort and saving, and in greater measure of justice and fair play for those who live and work in New York and whose children should grow up under conditions calculated to make them its loyal citizens.

The Daily Magazine pages of The Evening World, to which a large and regular staff of special writers and artists contribute, kept to the high standard of artistic and literary excellence which they have always maintained. This entertaining section of The Evening World early in the year was increased in size to four pages, a special feature page being added, which, in illustrations and special articles, kept pace with the most interesting developments of the day's news. Will B. Johnstone, Henry Harmony and a large number of other artists have contributed to it pictorially, while among the writers whose work has been a regular feature of the page are Nixola Greeley-Smith, Marguerite Mooers Marshall, Martin Green, Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Helen H. Hoffman, Hazel Carter, and others, the scope of whose writings has covered everything from war to war work, from humor to human interest, from interviews to reviews, from adventure to analysis of love and matrimony. On the editorial page Mr. Cassel's cartoons on the war, support of Liberty Loans and other patriotic appeals, and on various national and international developments have been so striking as to make them a byword not only in New York but throughout the Nation. For entertainment and instruction this page has offered a wide variety of subjects and articles, chief among them being the delightfully satirical but always good-natured writings of Helen Rowland, the philosophical, helpful, close-to-human-life articles by Sophie Irene Loeb, the series of tabloid, brief but meaty historical series so entertainingly written by Albert Payson Terhune, and that old but always amusing friend of Evening World readers, "The Jarr Family," by Roy L. McCardell.

The Home Page gave to its readers a real feast of fiction through the best novels and serial stories obtainable, of which it has printed one complete every two weeks in daily instalments. Pauline Furlong's Health and Beauty articles have interested many thousands in physical appearance and well-being, as attested by voluminous correspondence. Mildred Lodewick's fashion designs and dressmaking advice have proved of great value in the home in these days of economy. Rev. Thomas B. Gregory's special articles, of an editorial nature, but with intensely human application, are a new feature of this page already popular. Maurice Ketten's humorous cartoons, always clever, always human, always timely, have given a lightening touch to this page and many good laughs to its readers.

The Comic Page, to which five comic artists have daily contributed-Brinkerhoff, Counihan, Vic, Long and Meek has distributed a good number of daily laughs among the followers of "Little Mary Mixup," "The Big Little Family," "Joe's Car," "Somewhere in New York" and "Grindstone George. each comic series has had a different point of appeal and a popularity peculiarly its own. On this same

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page Bide Dudley's humorous, gossipy column, "About Plays and Players," has kept the keen interest of all who follow the stage and its people. In his column "The New Plays." Charles Darnton. The Evening World's dramatic critic, has given the New York theatregoer the clearest possible indication of what to expect of every new play opening in the city.

Postal Information.

Postal Enformation.

(Revised from the United States Official Postal Guide.)

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On November 29, 1918, repeal of the increased postage rates was approved by the Senate Finance Committee at Washington. Amendments to the War Revenue Bill were adopted to abolish the zone increase on second-class rates, with a proviso that the rates should be 11⁄2 cents per pound beyond a 200mile radius. The Committee also voted to repeal the extra cent per ounce postage on letters, and ordered into the bill the so-called child labor amendment, offered by Senator Lodge, providing for a 10 per cent. tax on products of child labor. The change in second-class postage, under the Committee's amendment, would become effective upon enactment of the bill, while that reducing first-class postage rates would be effective July 1, 1919. The amendment reducing second-class rates, offered by Senator Smoot of Utah, Republican, provided that upon enactment of the bill the existing zone system, which many publishers, particularly those of magazines, attacked as unjust, would be abolished, and that thereafter the secondclass rate should be at the old scale of one cent per pound within a radius of 200 miles from mailing points and 11⁄2 cents per pound outside of the 200-mile zone. When the Almanac went to press Congress was still debating the Senate Committees recommendations.

FOREIGN MAILS.

Rates on letters to Canada and the other British Colonies, and to Great Britain and Ireland, three cents an ounce, or fraction thereof.

The above rates apply to letters to England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; the Bahamas, the Barbadoes, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Dominican Republic, the Dutch West Indies, the Leeward Islands, Newfoundland, Trinidad (including Tobago), and New Zealand.

Rates on letters to all other countries--five cents for the first ounce, and three cents for each additional ounce or fraction.

Rates on postal cards to all countries-two cents each; on return or reply cards, four cents each. Rates on printed matter of all kinds (including newspapers)-one cent for each two ounces or fraction. (The above do not apply to printed matter to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, or Panama.)

Rates on commercial papers including legal and insurance, deeds, bills of lading, invoices, manuscript for publication, etc.-five cents for the first ten ounces or less, and one cent for each additional two ounces or fraction.

Rates on samples of merchandise--two cents for the first four ounces or less, and one cent for each additional two ounces or fraction.

Registration fee, in addition to postage, ten cents. Letters and postals may be despatched even if no postage whatever is prepaid.

International Parcel Post rates from the United States-twelve cents a pound or fraction. (The countries in the service are: Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Dutch Guiana, Equador, France, French Guiana, Gibraltar, Great Britain and Ireland, Guatemala, Guadaloupe, Haiti, British Honduras, Republic of Honduras, Hongkong, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Leeward Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands, East Indies, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Society Islands, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Islands. Service was suspended by the war to Austria, Belgium, Chill, Denmark, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Liberia, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.)

Letters and Postal Cards must be despatched to Canada and Mexico if prepaid one full rate of postage and to Cuba and Panama whether prepaid or not. Other articles for Cuba and Panama must be prepaid at least in part and for Canada and Mexico in full.

Packages Must Not Be Sealed-Articles other than letters in their usual and ordinary form are excluded from the mails for Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and Panama, unless they are so wrapped that their contents can be easily examined by postmasters and customs officers. Any article inclosed in an envelope, as the word "envelope" is generally used, without regard to its size, is considered to be " the usual and ordinary form" of a letter. But unsealed packages may contain, in sealed receptacles, articles which cannot be safely transmitted in unsealed receptacles; provided, the contents of the closed receptacles are plainly visible or are precisely stated on the covers of the closed receptacles and that the package is so wrapped that the outer cover can be easily opened.

DOMESTIC MAIL MATTER.

Includes mail addressed for local delivery, or for transmission from one place to another within the United States, or to or from or between the possessions of the United States, and to that for transmission to or from the United States or its possessions and to officers or members of crews of United States navai vessels, to or from the United States postal agency at Shanghai, China, to or from the United States Expeditionary Forces in Europe and Siberia, and to officers and men of the United States Navy in the United States Naval Hospital at Yokohama, Japan. The domestic rates apply to all these places.

Rates on letters (other than drop letters)-three cents an ounce or fraction thereof. (As noted under foreign mails, the three cent rate includes Canada and Cuba, and to every place where the United States Mail Service is in operation.)

Aeroplane mail in the United States Six cents for the first ounce or fraction thereof, and six cents for each additional ounce or fraction and ten cents if a special delivery service is asked. Such matter must be of the first class, the sealed parcels being not over thirty inches in length and girth combined. Postage must be fully prepaid, either in ordinary stamps or special aero stamps.

Domestic first-class or letter mail has the same limit of weight as fourth-class or Parcel Post mail. On drop letters two cents an ounce or fraction thereof when mailed at any Post Office for delivery within its postal district, including rural routes emanating from the office. The New York City postal district embraces Manhattan, the Bronx, Pelham, and the Pelham Bay Naval Cantonment. This rate also applies to offices which have no free delivery service. There is no drop rate on mail other than letters. Letters of a person or concern of one city or place sent for mailing at a Post Office in another city or place for local delivery are not mailable at the drop rate but are subject to postage at three cents an ounce or fraction thereof.

On postal cards, including souvenir picture postals and private mailing cards, two cents each. On return or reply cards, four cents each.

All letters or prints of a seditious character are barred from the mails.
REGULATIONS REGARDING MAILS TO AND FROM U. S. EXPEDITIONARY
AND SIBERIA.

The Post Office Department authorizes the following:

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All mail matter originating in the United States or any of its possessions for transmission to soldiers and others, including civilians connected with the United States Expeditionary Forces in Europe and Siberia, and all mail originating with those forces for transmission to the United States or its possessions, is subject to the United States domestic classification, conditions and rates of postage. United States postage stamps only are valid for the prepayment of postage on matter above described, provided that the stamps in use in the Canal Zone and the Philippines are valid for the prepayment of postage on such matter as originates In those possessions.

Mail intended for members of the Expeditionary Forces should bear the name and address of the sender in the upper left corner and be addressed in the following manner: (1) Name of addressee, including bis rank. first name in full, and initials, if any; (2) oficial designation of the unit or organization to which addressee belongs.

In order to prevent delay in despatch and secure prompt delivery of mail addressed to the Expeditionary Forces it is important that the postage be fully prepaid.

Letters of soldiers, sailors and marines may be sent through the mails without prepayment of postage, provided they bear in the upper left corner of the envelope the name of the soldier, sailor or marine, together with the designation of the service to which he belongs.

Any article of mail may be specially delivered on an extra payment of ten cents.

SECOND-CLASS MATTER-NO LIMIT TO WEIGHT. RATES TO THE PUBLIC. Newspapers and periodicals unsealed, 1-cent, each 4 ounces or fraction. Incomplete coples, 1 cent for each 2 ounces.

Zones applicable to fourth-class matter applicable to second-class matter.

For the purpose of determining the rate of postage publishers are required, with the first mailing of each issue, to file with the Postmaster a copy of such issue together with a statement of such information as may be prescribed by the Postmaster-General.

Where the total weight of any one edition or issue of any publication mailed to any one zone does not exceed one pound the rate of postage shall be one cent.

The zone rates provided by this law relate to the entire bulk mailed to any one zone and not to individually addressed packages. Where a newspaper or periodical is mailed by other than the publisher or his agent or a news agent or dealer, the rate shall be the same as to the general public.

THIRD-CLASS (PRİNTED) MATTER RÅTES-LIMIT OF WEIGHT, FOUR POUNDS. On each individually addressed piece or package, 1 cent for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof. Packages of 4 pounds or less, containing third and fourth-class matter, are chargeable at the higher rate. If the package exceeds 4 pounds and contains parcel post and miscellaneous printed matter, the rate is as fourth-class matter.

(a) Parcels weighing 4 ounces or less, except books, seeds, plants, etc., 1 cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, any distance.

(b) Parcels weighing 8 ounces or less, containing books, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants, 1 cent for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof, regardless of distance.

(c) Parcels weighing more than 8 ounces, containing books, sccds, plants, etc., parcels of miscellaneous printed matter weighing more than 4 pounds, and all other parcels of fourth-class matter weighing more than 4 ounces are chargeable, according to distance or zone, at the pound rates shown in the table below, except as provided in paragraph (d), a fraction of a pound being computed as a full pound.

(d) Parcels subject to the pound rates, mailed for delivery within the first or second zone, are, when the distance by the shortest regular mail route from the office of origin to the office of delivery is 300 miles or more, 6 cents for the first pound and 2 cents for each additional-pound, a fraction of a pound being computed as a full pound.

(e) Alaska, Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, etc.—The eighth zone rate of 12 cents for each pound or fraction thereof on all parceis weighing more than 4 ounces (except books, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants, weighing 8 ounces or less) applies (1) between the United States and the Hawailan Islands; (2) between the United States and its postal agency at Shanghai, China; (3) between any two points in Alaska and between any point in Alaska and any other point in the United States; (4) betweer the United States and the Canal Zone; (5) between the United States and the Philippine Islands; (6) to from, or between Guam, Tutuila, and Manua and other islands of the Samoan group cast of longitude 171 west of Greenwich, and the United States and its other possessions; (7) between the United States and its naval vessels stationed in foreign waters; (8) between the United States and its Expeditionary Forces in Europe and Siberia.

( Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and Republic of Panama-Twelve cents for each pound or fraction thereof also applies to fourth-class matter, including seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and plants (but excepting books and other printed matter on which the rate is 1 cent for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof in all cases), weighing more than 4 ounces and not exceeding 4 pounds 6 ounces, when mailed to Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and the Republic of Panama, (Parcels weighing up to 20 pounds may be sent to Mexico and the Republic of Panama as foreign parcel post mail under the parcel post conventions with those countries.)

The special delivery fee is 10 cents in addition to the regular postage.

The limit of weight of fourth-class matter is 70 pounds for parcels mailed for delivery within the first, second, and third zones, and 50 pounds for all other zones.

Limit of size-Parcel post matter may not exceed 84 inches in length and girth combined. In measuring a parcel the greatest distance in a straight line between the ends (but not around the parcel) is taken - as its length, while the distance around the parcel at its thickest part is taken as its girth. For example, a parcel 35 Inches long, 10 inches wide, and 5 inches high measures 65 Inches in length and girth combined. Rate of postage on gold coin, gold bullion, and gold dust offered for malling between any two points In Alaska, or between any point in Alaska, and any point in the United States or its possessions, 2 cents an ounce or fraction thereof, regardless of distance. Such gold coin, gold bullion, or gold dust must be in sealed package not over 11 pounds in weight, and must be sent by registered mail.

Packages of morchandise that weigh over 4 ounces and not over 4 pounds 6 ounces, may be sent to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the Republic of Panama, at the eighth zone rate of postage (12 cents for each pound or fraction thereof), Parcels for Cuba, Mexico, and the Republic of Panama must be accompanied by customs declarations regardless of their weight. Packages of merchandise weighing not more than 4 ounces may be mailed, at the postage rate of 1 cent for each ounce or fraction of an ounce, to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and the Republic of Panama. Customs declarations are required on such parcels of merchandise of 4 ounces or less to Mexico and the Republic of Panama. Packages of merchandise cannot be insured or sent C. O. D., but may be registered for Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the Republic of Panama. Mailable merchandise. for Mexico and the Republic of Panama, at the option of the sender, may also be sent-by international parcel post if it conforms to the requirements.