Evening star., 1934-04-08

will have a cachet for the birthday
Of Thomas jefferson, April 13
The cachet department. Chamber of
Commerce, st. Petersburg, Fla, will
be responsible for a cachet for the
U. S. S. Constitution cold IRON
sidcs'D, April 1920
Henry A. Gale, 905 Filbert street,
Philadelphia, Pa, is the sponsor of a
cachet for the anniversary of the
death of Benjamin Franklin, April II.
r. C. Schaffer. 1888 California
street, Washington, Will have
cachet for the Cherry Blossom Festi-
val, April 12-14
Standard 634 envelopes specified for
each Of the above, addressed. stuffed
but unsealed. Use stamps of phila-
telic value on wrappers in compliment
to sponsors.
w. T. Raley, 2le Stewart Build
ing, sends a sample OF a special cover
he designed to commemorate the
overriding of President Roosevelts
veto of the independent Offices appro-
priation bill. 1t IS inscribed: The
Four Horsemen of the Senate-Bron-
son Cutting, Patrick McCarran. Ar
thur R. Robinson, Frederick Steiwer-
House: 80 to only 70; Senate: 63
/ to only 81"
These covers" Mr.. Raley SAYS.
ARE not a commercial proposition.
Should any collector desire one, l
will be glad to accommodate on re-
ceipt of postage as long as the SIM
ply lasts"
Many collectors, probably, have
wondered about the designs of the
modernistic stamps of Austria. series
CT 1922. Richard Mop. Cabeen, in
the Chicago Tribune. says: The en-
blems of the toiler form the central
features. The lower values show a
single conventionalized ear of rye or
perhaps wheat with a well-trimmed
beard. The higher value stamps are
OF the hammer and tongs' variety,
for they show blacksmiths hammer
growing out of plant form, with
a pair of pincers for a blossom
DR.. William Bennett Munro. in
THE Government of the United
States" defines the functions of chief
of the Post Office Department in these
words: THE Postmaster General is
what his title implies His depart
ment has the largest number of en-
ployes, and hence the greatest range
of political patronage, although this
has now been greatly diminished by
placing most of the postmasterships
in the classified service. He awards
contracts for the transportation of
| the mails and for all other forms of
service in his department. He as
sumes the oversight of the entire
postal business of the United States,
which is the largest single business
enterprise of any sort in the world"
The Chicago Tribune, April l. pub
hshed a comprehensive story of the
emergency airmail. The title is:
''Dulce ct Decorum est Pro Patria
Mori," the text covers two complete
pages and there are 26 illustrations.
The Atlantic City Stamp Club will
have its second annual exhibition at
the Hotel Madison. Atlantic City,
Friday and Saturday One of the
sponsors is Jacques Kilcher, veteran
philatelist, who edits the stamp de-
partment of the Atlantic City Press.
Clement S. Ernst is editing daily
stamp column for the Seattle Star.
Hugo Meyer, Mount Rainier. Md.
calls attention to the report that a
used strip of three 10-cent stamps of
the 1851 series brought 5000 and a
block of mint Accent inverted centers
of the 1901 series l,625 at an auction
in New York recently.
"Philately,' Mr. Meyer insists, "is
not fad. but hobby Of dignity
and honor"
Miss Elise Demaray. daughter of A.
E. Demaray, associate director, Ma
tional Park Service, is an ardent
stamp collector. A student at Will
liam and Mary College, she employs
her leisure working over her phila-
telic treasures.
John B. Blaiklock, $500 Carolina
! place, writes: Il have in my collec-
tion a post card from Mozambique.
Portuguese East Africa. This was
mailed to England by my brother in
1909 and has the stamp printed on
the left-hand side I understand that
when the error was discovered, the
cards we're called in and only very
few were sold. Have you heard of this
curiosity, and if so, of what value is
it?"
| Perhaps some other t"asF may be