Evening star., 1935-09-08

sissippi, 1898, group Of Indian con-
serts; Accent, same series. Indian
hunting buffalo; 1-cent, Jamestown,
1906, Pocahontas and Powhatan; s.
cent, same series, Pocahontas; 2-cent.
Mad Anthony Wayne commemorative,
1929, Indian warrior: 2-cent, Massa-
chusetts Bay, 1880. Wampanoag In
dian; 2-cent, Charleston, S. c.. 1880,
Yomassee chieftain; Scent, Wiscon-
sin tercentenary, 1884. Huron and
Winnebago groups, and, "noblest por-
trait" of all, 14-cent, general issue,
1922, Indian warrior, supposed to be
Chief Hollowhorn Bear.
The airship LZ-129 will not cross
from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst
until Spring.
Those who refer to philately as a
"fad" could do worse than consult a
standard dictionary. The word, they
would find. signifies an ephemeral
whim, "a matter of taste or a pursuit
that temporarily engages the atten-
tion and interest: passing fancy or
fashion" But there is nothing "tem-
porary" or passing" about science
which soon will celebrate its CEN
tenary.
George B. Sloane, philatelic expert,
writes: With the wreck of a number
of post Offices through the earth
quake and fire which devastated San
Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent
demand for postage stamps which
could not be supplied, the Post ONCE
Department waived all regulations
and for about a week following the
catastrophe ruled that all mail out
Of the stricken city could be sent post
free.
Letters were written on scraps of
paper. cuffs, collars, shingles and bits
of anything that would carry a writ
ten message, but all went through
free.
In miscellany collection of mine,
have couple of these letters. One
is mailed without a postage stamp
from the Preside station, San Fran
cisco, April 81, 1906, and was carried
to destination free. The other one,
dated April 25, was addressed to Phila-
delphia, but the postmaster there was
apparently unaware of the temporary
suspension of regulations and attached
2-cent postage due stamp-to be on
the safe side"
Roger Babson. financial writer, sug-
gests six investment hedges" against
imitation and unsound radicalism.
They are: Children, culture, good
health, real estate, stamps and coins
and jewels, and-last and presumably
least-"securities and intangibles."
The comment of Willard o. Wylie,
editor. Mekeel's Weekly, is: why rate
land above philatelic values?"
Frugality, Penna., has been dropped
from the official list of post Offices, but
New Deal, Mont, has been added to
the roster.
Odd place names in England in
clude: Picket Post, Hampshire; Tadley
God Help Us, Hampshire; Blubber-
houses, Yorkshire; Make -Em-R Rich,
Northumberland; We Three Logger
heads, Flintshire.
August Dietz, publisher, Stamp and
Cover Collecting, Richmond, calls for
scholarship in the philatelic press.
There are quite number of earnest
students in our country" he says,
but, unfortunately, they do not come
forward and make known their
achievements"
DR.. Richard A. Metcalf. a veteran
collector, died at his home in Clarks-
vile, Ga, August 10. He was re-
spected and loved In philatelic circles
in both New England, his birthplace,
and the South.
Everett Andrew Colson, financial
adviser to Emperor Halle Selassie of
Ethiopia since 1890, is by avocation a
stamp collector. He was elected to
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