Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-13
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his Judgment thai writers, like mill
tary characters, devote themselves to
ideal service. Nc citizen who is ia
miliar it'll the chronicle of his coun-
try can forget the obligation he owes
to the literary class. ! have compiled
this list of authors who might have
philatelic Salutation: Horatio Alger,
George Bancroft, James Gordon Ben
nett, Ambrose Bierce, William Cullen
Bryant, John Burroughs, Samuel L.
Clemens MARK Twain, j. Fenimore
Cooper, Stephen Crane, Charles A.
Dana, Frederick Douglass, Paul Lau-
renee Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Edward Everett, Eugene Field, Hor-
ace Greeley, Joel Chandler Harris,
Bret Harte. Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Lafcadio Hearn, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, William Dean Howells, WASH
ington Irving, Henry and William
James, Francis Scott Key, Sidney
Lanier, Victor F. Lawson, Jack Lon
don, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Elijah Lovejoy. James Russell Lowell,
Herman Melville, John Motley, Frank
Norris, Adolph S. Ochs. Francis Park
man, John Howard Payne. Wendell
Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, w. S. Por-
ter 20. Henry, William H. Prescott,
Joseph Pulitzer, Whitelaw Reid, j..
Whitcomb Riley. Josiah Royce, Mel
vile E. Stone, Bayard Taylor, Henry
David Thoreau, Henry Van Dyke, Lew
Wallace, Booker T. Washington, Walt
Whitman; John Greenleaf Whittier
and William Holmes MacGuffey.
"A series of stamps for American
artists would be monument for Ed
win A. Abbey. John w. Alexander,
George w. Bellows, William M
Chase, Kenyon Cox, Arthur B. Davies,
Winslow Homer, George lines. John
La F~rge, Howard Pyle, Frederic REM
lngton, John S. Sargent, Gilbert
Stuart, Abbott H. Thayer, Elihu We'd
der, Benjamin West and James Abbot
Mcneil Whistler. And with these
men should be included the sculptors
Hiram Powers, Augustus St. Gaudens
and j. @. A. Ward and the architects
Robert Mills and CaSs Gilbert.
Meanwhile, who will presume to
say that series for musicians like
Stephen Collins Foster, Ethelbert
NeVm, Reginald de Koven, Victor Her.
bert, Edward Mcdowell and John
Philip Sousa would not be received en-
Enthusiastically by the entire American
puollc, not exempting collectors?
Likewise, l believe there would be
h.
emulated the example of Turkey and
brought out set of stamps in tribute
to distinguished women. Louisa Nav
Alcott, Susan B. Anthony. Clara H.
Barton, Emily Dickinson, Julia Ward
Howe, Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell,
Alice Freeman Palmer and Harriet
Beecher Stowe have earned the right
to remembrance, and so have Char
lotte Cushman and Minnie Maddern
Flske, Frances E. Willard and Jane
Addams. The organized womanhood
OF America should see to it that their
sisters are not neglected
Perhaps the Government has not
realized how rich the Nation is in
great personalities. The present ad-
Observation-Disclosures by a philatelist
has not brought out one single por-
trait stamp. It's only suggestion along
that line was set for the neglected
Presidents" and the collectors very
properly rejected that notion.
But any student can call up in his
mind the names of at least a dozen
heroes who ought not to be ignored.
At random, suggest Stephen Girard,
Peter Cooper. Mark Hopkins. Horace
Mann, George Peabody, Rufus Choate,
Andrew Carnegie. Admiral Dewey, Will
liam Jennings Bryan, Carl Schurz.
Louis Kossuth, Robert E. Lee, Jacob
Rlis, James Cardinal Gibbons, Phillips
Brooks, Theodore Parker, Henry Ward
Beecher, Jonathan Edwards, Henry
Watterson. Gen Oliver Otis Howard.
Buffalo Bill and Will Rogers. What
glory would shine around their memory
were they immortalized in stamp de-
signs!
i make no claim to be a prophet,
but I nevertheless anticipate a time
when the postage stamps of the United
States will be used more intelligently
than In the past, when they will be &C
copied as SO many opportunities to
educate the people in the values the
people will be only too glad to learn"
Conception Arenal. portrayed on a
recent Spanish stamp" says SCOTS
Monthly Journal, was feminist and
social reformer and is the first
woman, other than royal persons, to
be postally pictured in Spain. Born
at Ferror in De la Coruna Province,
January 80, 1920, this lady was the
daughter of father who quit law to
enter the army. She read widely
and studied languages; her passion
for an education, according to re-
ports never confirmed, led her to
disguise herself as a man in order to
enter classes at the university. In
1847 Conception married Fernando
Garrett CarraSco, a lawyer and jour-
nalist who shared her ideals and en-
couraged her to study of social science
and to active work in philanthropy.
She advocated the emancipation of
women, remarkable for those days,
particularly in Spain, and took
leading part in the movement for
public education. She became famous
throughout Europe for her work in
criminology and in 1864 the Spanish
government appointed her inspector
general of prisons and the Academy
of Moral and Political Science
awarded her prize. Meanwhile, she
had elaborated with her husband in
publishing Iberia, the most important
Spanish newspaper of the time, and
had produced her first novel. She
wrote unanimously, and her writings
exerted great influence on the laws
and social system of Spain. In 1920
the centenary of her birth was ma
tionally celebrated and a monument
to her memory was erected in 1928"
The First American Philatelic Con-
gress will be held at the Ritz Carlton
Hotel, Philadelphia, Friday and Sat-
urday, December 81 and %. Announce
ment to that effect was made yester.