Evening star., 1933-12-17

Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley,
George Peabody, Matthew VaSsar Peter
Cooper and the many others who have
fought the battle for progress from pull
pit, platform and press Ought not
they to be kept in the memory of the
people?
Eminent figures in literature have
been honored on the stamps of Euro
pean countries. Why not IN the United
States? The list from which We might
draw is long one. Included in its
scope would be: Washington Irving,
James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph ROD
man Drake, Edgar Allan Poe. Francis
Scott Key, James Russell Lowell, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William
Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whit
tier. Sidney Lanier, Walt Whitman,
Mark Twain, Lew Wallace, James Whit
comb Riley, Eugene Field, Joel Chan
dler Harris and Joyce Kilmer.
Musicians and Artists.
Among musicians there would be:
Stephen Collins Foster, Ethelbert Nevin,
Victor Herbert and Edward MacDowell.
Celebrated painters and sculptorS, like
Edwin A Abbey. John w. Alexander,
George w. Bellows, Ralph A. Blakelock,
William NJ. Chase, John Copley. Kenyon
Cox, Arthur B. Davies, Thomas EakinS,
Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, George
Inness, John La Fargo, Homer Martin,
Clark Mills, Edward and Thomas Mo-
ran, Charles w. Peale, Howard Pyle,
Frederic Remington, John s. Sargent.
William Sartain, Gilbert Stuart, Elihu
Vedder, j. A. M. Whistler, Benjamin
West, Paul Bartlett, Karl T. Bitter,
Daniel Chester French, Hiram Powers,
Carl MelcherS and Augustus st.
Gaudens readily come to mind.
From the list of eminent American
women worthy of place in the philatelic
gallery, LucreIia Mott, Maria Mitchell,
Julia Ward Howe, Louisa May Alcott,
Helen Hunt Jackson, Frances Willard,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Clara Bar
ton might be selected. To date only
PocahontaS and Martha Washington
have been honored on stamps.
And then there are the forgotten
men who should be represented-men
of humble and yet courageous life, like
Crispus Attucks. slain in the Boston
Massacre, first martyr to independence;
Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washing
ton and many others who served ideal
ends"
MI Eideness particularly stressed the
trall-DIaZeTS. 0urely there can De no
question" he said, about the merit of
saints like Father Hennepin and Father
Marquette, pioneers like Daniel Boone.
David Crockett, Marcus Whitman and
the riders in the Last RoundUp-Kit
Carson, Buffalo Bill and Gen Custer.
''One man I should like to see
honored by a stamp is Oliver Otis
Howard. He fought at Bull Run. Fred
ericksburg, Charlottesville and Gettys-
burg; then was chief OF the Freedman's
Bureau and later superintendent Of
West Point As great and as humane
soldier as ever lived. he should be
better known to his countrymen of this
generation
Would Honor War Leaders.
The leaders Of the War Between the
States, North and South alike, Mr..
EiGSnesS believes, should be considered.
we have had stamp for Sherman,
but none for Sheridan, The Daughters
of the Confederacy have tried in vain to
have a stamp authorized for Lee.
Stonewal1 jackson, for example, has the
admiration Of the people on both sides
of the Mason and Dixon line Why
should not he be remembered in
stamp design?"
Others mentioned by the former