The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 44, November 3, 2002, Article 12

MOTTO FIGHT MOVES TO POST OFFICES

  An October 30, 2002 article in The Houston Chronicle
  relates a story of a fight over the motto "In God We Trust"
  on display at local post offices.

  "What is good for the U.S. Mint is evidently not acceptable
  to the U.S. Postal Service.

  A post office in Montgomery north of Houston recently
  learned that it had to remove a framed poster of the national
  motto "In God We Trust" because it violates postal regulations.

  The donated 16-by-20-inch poster, which is matted and
  secured in a gold frame, displays "In God We Trust" in large
  white letters over the American flag colors.  It states at the
  bottom that the "national motto was approved by Congress
  and President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956."

  Retired chemical engineer Frank P. Williamson spent $3,000
  purchasing 300 of the posters, had them framed, and then
  donated them to city halls, schools, libraries, police stations
  and post offices across Montgomery County, where they've
  hung since this summer. "

  "Postal spokesman David Lewin, in Houston, said the
  Montgomery post office had not been authorized to hang
  the poster and was forced to remove it because it "did not
  fit within postal guidelines."

  "The motto was first used on a 2-cent coin minted in 1864,
  and now federal law dictates its inscription on all coins and
  paper money. It is also prominently engraved in the wall
  above the speaker's dais in the U.S. House of Representatives
  and appears over the entrance to the U.S. Senate chamber."

  http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1641182

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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