Evening star., 1923-05-06
Heard and Seen

Taking 100000 worth of stamps
with him, w. I. Glover third assistant
postmaster general, left last week for
London, where he will be in charge
OF tho United States exhibit at the
International philatelic exhibition.
The stamps in the exhibit are not
age, value, but only philatelically
speaking. Postage stamp collectors
the world over have placed certain
values upon certain stamps. rare for
one reason or another, and those
values stand.
In the collection being taken over
by Mr. Glover. for instance, there is
a dieproof Of the famous 24-cent air
plane stamp. with the plane upside
down. So its value is NOR, more than -
Then there is a block of lo-cent
stamps in the exhibit, which almost
any wealthy stamp collector would be
willing to give Mr.. Glover $4,000 for,
are lacking the perforations between
| each other which one normally mas
| in a sheet Of stamps. Due to this
| little omission the stamps take on a
| tremendous added value.
The various stamps in the exhibit
| are mounted on a. white background;
| tho whole in a mahogany frame OF
large size. A striking feature or the
| exhibit is the shield of the United
! States. worked out in red and blue
| stamps. with the background FORM
| ing the white stripes.
| Postmaster Mooney of the Wash
| inrton city post Office and Robert
Rerar. chief clerk of the Post Ofice
! Department. did a nice thing last
| week with the flowers which each re-
| ceived upon their swearing IN, Mt.
| Mooney as postmaster and Mr.. Regar
1 as chief clerk.
| EACH man received profusion of
| floral tributes from friends and as
| sociatea The office of each executive
| looked like a florist shop. But neither
| allowed tho bouquets to remain and
wilt
| ers sent to the sick employees OF the
| post office, and the new chief clerk
| had his baskets sent around TO en-
| ployes of the Post once Department
| who were on the sick list
|
| In this connection it is interesting
| TO note that Chief Clerk Regar has a
record which Isl equaled by perhaps
tfew of the employees OF the Post oihce
! Department
/ with the service Regar has never
| taken a day OF sick leave or had q
! tardiness marked up against him.
| Little flapper. employees. therefore,
who are apt to come In late IN .nt, Iae
morning might anticipate that they
would get little sympathy from the
chief clerk. ,s
new chief clerk does not insist that
as he does. AS matter Of fact. when
he was appointed clerk Regar was
! in nstrumental in putting into effect
regulations changing the minimum
| "fne" for being late from thirty 10
! ten minutes.
Of the Post Office Department was
| late one minute in the morning ne
i-or she--was "doeked half an hour'
Under, the new & resuIat1hohSh ,sith heins ins 1 but
ReTar win tell you. however. that
he does, not believe any government
department has q better cas sardy nsgS resoro rt
nient. Despite the 1000 and more
| ensnioyes in the big building at 1lth
| street and Pennsylvania avenue, tne
| number who are cha1ked up as taroy
FOR work each day Is surprisingly
small
! washingtonians, who have ma
tional reputation for cooperating
| with their post office, have added op-
portunity this month and early the
| next for helping the postal service.
Postmaster General Mooney faces
| the great task Of handling the mail
for a city which will practically dou-
! Bile its population overnight, when
the Shriners come here in June:
1t is, big job:
II the people Of the National Capital
will see to it that their own letters
are correctly addressed. and In other
ways be mindful of the postal laws
and regulations. it Will pc ire
mendous help in a trying sltuatoh'
/ CHARLES E. TRACEWELL