Evening star., 1934-09-09
CAPITAL STAMPS
PROPOSED BY BOY
Advertising City's ArChiteC.
turaI and Natural Beau.
ties Behind Idea.

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architectural beauties of the Nations
Capital has been suggested for con-
sideration by Postmaster General
James A. Farley. The sponsor of the
plan is william Shrader, 14-year-
old schoolboy, who is president Of the
Chevy Chase Junior Stamp Club.
THE Post Office Department, the
lad explains, already has made use
of views of the Capitol, the Lincoln
Memorial and the Arlington Amphi-
theater in stamp designs, but the de-
nominations are 50, 81 and so cents,
and that means that the average anna
teuF collector almost never sees them.
The Arlington issue, 1t also should be
noted, is no longer accurate, since the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which
1t shows, has been rebuilt.
MY proposal is that an entirely new
series be authorized. The values, I
think, should run from / cent to so
cents, and the subjects should include
the Capitol, the White House, the
Washington Monument, the Lincoln
Memorial, the Arlington Bridge, the
Arlington Amphitheater, the Library
OF Congress, the new Post Office De-
partment Building, the Department Of
Commerce Building the Treasury De-
partment building, the PanAmerican
Union Building, the National Red
Cross Building, Continental Hall, the
Folger Shakespeare Library, the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences, the Sen
ate Office Building, the House Office
Buildings and the Supreme Court
Building now approaching compile
ton.
There would be 18 stamps in the
set. and the total cost of the series
to the public would be $2.15-a sum
could afford, especially If the release
arrangements for the National Parks
stamps were followed and the issues
came out one at time.
MY suggestion is that the size of
each denomination should be like
that of the Parks stamps or about
double that of the ordinary postal
series of 1922. The large dimensions
would be necessary in order to do JUS
tice to the subject material"
Shrader declares: Many foreign
nations have employed views of their
capital cities in stamp designs. For
example, the Parliament buildings of
the Argentine Republic, Austria,
Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Central
Lithuania, Cuba, Danzig Free State,
Finland, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary,
Iceland. India, Liberia, Mongolia,
Paraguay, the Philippine Islands,
Salvador. San Marine, the Union of
South Africa and Uruguay have had
philatelic representation.
"The state residences of the Presi-
dent Of Cuba, the President of Haiti,
the Regent Of Hungary, the Viceroy
of India, the Prince of Monaco, and
the Holy Father IN the Vatican City
have appeared in stamp pictorial
form.
"On the stamps of Afghanistan and
Siam may be seen the throne rooms of
the sovereigns of those countries.
National postal headquarters have
been represented in the stamp issues
of Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark,
Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, Japan,
Lithuania, Mexico, Newfoundland, Mic
aragua, Peru, Salvador, San Marino
Sweden and Uruguay.
Austria, China, Finland and Spain
have shown their national equivalents
of the Congressional Library estab-
lishment.
ITALY has a stamp depicting the
Colosseum, and the national theaters
of Costa Rica, Estonia, Mexico and
Salvador have been displayed in phil
atelic manner
"CathedralS appear on stamps
brought out by Central Lithuania,
Cuba, Danzig, the Dominican Repub-
lie, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Por-
tugal, Runania, Sweden and Uru-
quay; and Italy in 1882 sponsored
beautiful philatelic representations
OF st. Peters, st. Paurs and the
Church of st. John Lateran, Rome.
Cuba has had stamps showing the
Central Galleries, the Treasury
Building, Moro Castle and the Ha-
vana railroad station; Guatemala
stamps depicting the Temple of
Minerva, the Artillery Barracks, the
Indian School, the National ObServa-
tory and even the National Reforma-
way oe SAutNhIoid SAb1 Olld u
stamps to advertise the Institute of
Hygiene, the Medical Building, the
Hippodrome and the statue of Boil
var at Lima.
THE National Gymnasium may be
viewed on a stamp of Salvador, the
National University Library on a
stamp of Finland the Oceanographic
Museum on stamp of Monaco the
War Memorial Arch on a stamp of
India, the Arc de Triomphe on a
stamp of France. the Acropolis with
the Parthenon on a stamp of Greece
the st. Adolphus Bridge on a stamp OF
Luxembourg and the American
Congress Building on a stamp of Chile
"Bird's-eye views of the capitals OF
Algeria, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Honduras
and Turkey adorn the stamps of those
countries.
But perhaps the best example OF
the use TO which national monuments
and institutions can be put in stamp
designs is that of Russia. a country
which from 1905 to date has special
ICED in pictorial issues, the most no.
table of the number being those OF
1918 showing the Kremlin, the Winter
Palace, the Romanoff Castle and vari-
Gus other architectural landmarks"
The recent Parks stamps, Shrader
believes. will encourage the Post Office
Department to authorize further deco
rative issues of the same type, and the
Nations Capital. he thinks, certainly
ought to be accorded philatelic honors
commensurate with its Importance as
the seat of the Federal Government
and the focal center of American cul-
ture.