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BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
Eugene Klein, chairman, announces
that Alfred B. Levy will present a
paper on "A Business Man Takes Up
Philately" at the first American
Philatelic Congress. Hotel Ritz Carl
ton, Philadelphia. Friday and Satur-
day, December 81 and %.
A speaker at the informal dinner to
be held on the evening of the first
day Of the gathering, Mr.. Klein also
has announced, will be Rev. DR..
George E. Barnes, minister OF the
Overlook Presbyterian Church, for
mer president of the Philadelphia
Rotary Club and a stamp student for
many years.
Teachers and college and university
students, the chairman said, will be
especially welcome at the congress.
"The future of philately in America"
he declared, depends in very large
part on the increasing interest of
scholars in the science and the history
of stamps. This is true, of course, OF
the whole world. Trained minds are
the need of the age in every portion
of the earth. I believe that it is good
philosophy to put faith in knowledge
without which there can be neither
power for good nor tolerance among
men,"
Mr.. Klein, in his capacity of presi-
dent of the American Philatelic So
ciety, had conference with former
President Herbert Hoover during the
latter's visit to Philadelphia, Column
bus day.
Philatelic Agency sales for the first
quarter of the present fiscal year
amounted to $279,l3468. This figure,
says Postmaster General Farley. ex-
ceeds by more than $4,000 the sales
during the same period year ago.
With reference to the Michigan
stamp, slated to appear at Lansing,
Friday, November /, Elliott B. Holton
says: Michigan literally forced
itself upon the Union-for, instead
of waiting for Congress to pass an
enabling act which would pave the
way to statehood, the determined
Wolverines went blithely ahead and
voted they wanted to be State; then,
at meeting of the territorial coun-
Gil, named two senators and repre-
sentative. This all took place on No.
Vember l, 2 and 3, 1885, and so his
torians agree that Michigan became
O State de facto on November l."
The potato tax stamps will go on
sale December l.
Washington out ranked Boulder
City, New, in first-day sales of the
Dam stamp. Figures are: Washing
ton, SlO,75212; Boulder City, $3.50.
August Dietz, editor and publisher
Stamp and Cover Collecting, urges a
stamp in tribute to Patrick Henry,
apostle of American liberty. The
man who voiced the war cry of the
Revolution" he says, lis of more i'm
portance-just at this time-than
dozens Of meaningless dam sites and
other similar subjects on our stamps. "
The Associated Press reports: The
design to be used on the centennial
stamp to come out in 1886 in connec-
tion with the hundredth anniversary
of the State of Texas has been pre-
pared.
LAS drawn by Anne Prescott Toom-
ey, Dallas newspaper artist, it shows
the historic Alamo, battered by Mexi.
can cannon. at the left; scene at
the battle of San Jacinto in the right
background, while in the center, sur
mounted by the Texas flag, are por-
traits of Stephen F. Austin, father Of
Texas and Gen. Sam Houston. This
design follows the general pattern of
the Yorktown commemorative stamp
of 1881 and was laid out at the sug-
gestion of President Roosevelt. The
value will be 3 cents"
The National Federation of Stamp
Clubs is taking poll of constituent
organizations on the proposed Will
Rogers Wiley Post stamp.
Hungary has brought out set for
the tercentenary of the founding of
the national university. The ST,
green; 16f, sepia, and 20f, carmine,
values show portrait of Cardinal
Peter Pazmany; the 1of dark green;
32f. red brown, and 40f, blue, the
founders assembled to sign the docu-
ments for the establishment of the
institution.