Evening star., 1935-02-03


to please their customers. The new
corners also, potentially, may be an
asset, but it takes time and a real
sincere interest in collectors to make
people eficient in that field Of duty.
Present clamor for the appointment
of additional clerks is unwise and un-
necessary. Rather let the policy of
the department with regard to the
agency be corrected:
"All that actually Is needed is to
permit the agency to operate in ac-
cord with its original purpose, namely:
The establishment of a central sales
agency where collectors may obtain
well-centered specimens of postage
stamps for collection purposes which
are not available at their regular
post Offices"
Mr.. Eidsness argues that the agency
has been "swamped" because of the
department policy Of creating
monopolies demonstrating the sale of
certain stamp in the agency and re-
fusing to permit their general dis
tribution to ordinary post Offices
throughout the country.
Decreased mailings of third-class
matter render unnecessary the pro-
posed 4la-cent stamp and increased
use of postal meter machines, partic-
ularly for parcel post packages, indi-
| Gates very small demand for the
| projected 16, 18 and 10 cent stamps.
Stamps in tribute to the memory
| of three celebrated American Negroes
have been requested by a group of
Philadelphia citizens and indorsed by
the Afro-American press. Frederic
Douglass, orator; Paul Laurence Dun
bar, poet, and Booker T. Washington,
educator, are specified for recognition.
A group of artists is responsible for
suggestion to the effect that "the
five finest paintings" by American
painters each year be reproduced in
stamp designs.
The Arbor day stamp of 1882 has
been removed from the Philatelic
Agency sales list and the Wisconsin
Tercentenary commemorative of last
Summer Is expected to follow it
shortly.
Washington's birthday cachets for
February % are announced by George
A. Zitkus, 49 Ellsworth street, Wor-
cester, Mass; Harold Dodd, 1927 In
terlaken place, Seattle, Wash, and
Donald Graf, 391 Falconer street,
North Tonowanda, N. Y.
Standard size ga envelopes are
specified. self-addressed and ready to
go. Remit l cent forwarding charge
for each cover wanted.
Thirteen star flag cancellations may
be had from the following post Offices:
West Philadelphia Station, Philadel-
phia; Central Terminal R. P. O.,
Jersey City, N. j.; Wabash Station,
Pittsburgh, Pa; Bement. ILL.,; Clyde,
Tex; West Durham Station, Durham,
N. c.; Moorefeld, W. Va; Republic,
Mich; Valley Falls, r. l.; Utica, Ill,
and Stromburg. Nebr.
Italy announces IA new stamps to
mark the visit of King Emanuel to
italian Somaliland. The sovereign is
depicted in field marshal's uniform
and values run from 7l2 centeSimi to
| 25 lire.
Germany has a special series to
commemorate the return of the Saar.
The stamps are so inscribed and the
design symbolizes the love Of mother
for a child. Indicated values are: :
! 3pf, brown; 6pf. dark green; 12pf,
copper red, and 25pf, blue.
Restoration of the Saar district to
the Reich. naturally, will signify in
philately the disappearance of that
territory as stamp-isSuing center
| Many collectors are endeavoring to
complete their collections of all the
Saar varieties brought out during the
| Is years of French control, 192o-1935.
About 500 specimens are represented
in the entire sequence and the display
has notable esthetic and historical i'm
portance.
Referring to the Chicago perforat-
ing machine recently announced for
sale to dealers, the Rambling Reporter
| of Stamps Magazine says: THE in
! ventor blandly offers his product as
| though he were giving the waiting
world a long-needed remedy for a
! difficult disease and the innocent
tones of the letter give no hint of
questionable intent. Collectors
are warned to watch the legitimacy
OF their sources of supply"
H. E. Lobdell is the author of an
! interesting article on "Philatelic En-
| gineering," printed in a recent num-
ber of Technology Review, journal of
the Alumni Association of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Capt. Werner, smallest man in the
world" should be added to the list
OF famous stamp collectors. A men,
Der OF the Ritter troupe of Lilliputians,
he Is 28 inches tall, weighs 10 pounds
and is 81 years old His home is in
the midget city of Hohen- -Neuendorf
and he Is member of the Berlin
Philatelic Society.
The Associated Press, discussing
postal service in London, says: ANY
letter deposited in the city before 5
pm. Is delivered by the last post at
pm. A letter mailed to Brighton,
So miles away, by noon is delivered
the same evening without fail. It's
the same all over the country"
Because the Chinese government
has refused to recognize the validity
of Manchukuchan stamps inscribed
'Manchukuo' (Manchu Empire) I"
says G. A. Henhoeffer in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, authorities will re-
issue series with the offending word
replaced by Posts To further ap-
pease the Chinese, President Cor
EMPEROR Pu Yi's portrait will be
removed and a floral motif substi-
tuted."
Chief Director Uvaroff of the
Moscow post Office, Soviet Russia, is
| among officials about to be tried on
charges of irregularities" in the
handling of parcel post mail during
the past four years.
Recent elections resulted in the
choice of the following organization
presidents: DR.. A. o. James, Rich
| y,,oy,l yTo Cfovav, T1Y1h. ~ Cordar-