Evening star., 1936-03-22
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

Milton M. Enzer writes: when the
post Office officials recently made
request to newspaper men to draw up
lists of American heroes who might be
appropriate as subjects for postage
stamps, reporters who interviewed
President Dixon Ryan Fox Of Union
College, Schenectady, obtained from
him an unusual list of persons to be
commemorated in this fashion.
DIR. Fox, a noted historian of
American life. president of the New
York State Historical Association and
chairman Of the Executive Committee
of the American Historical Association,
submitted the names of 81 men and 2
women. The list includes several
soldiers, but generally the names are
of those who have helped to create
American traditions or practices and
who symbolic movements toward
useful achievement.
The nominations -(some already
recognized) follow, in chronological
order: Roger Williams. pioneer of free
conscience; William Penn, founder of
the first democratic commonwealth;
Benjamin Franklin, philanthropist
and scientist; Daniel Boone, pioneer
adventurer: Thomas jefferson, liberal
philosopher father of State universe
ties; George Washington; James Mad
ison, father of the Constitution; Alex
ander Hamilton, apostle of political
and economic nationalism; Eli Whit
ney, inventor and pioneer organizer
of mass production in industry; De
Witt Clinton, 'civiliZer' and promoter
of public Improvements; Elizabeth Ann
Bayley Seton, organizer of women in
religious philanthropy and education;
John Marshall, interpreter Of the
Constitution; Andrew jackson, ex-
emplar of American democracy:
Horace Mann, leader in State-sup-
ported education; Susan B. Anthony,
reformer; Ralph Waldo Emerson.
prophet of American self-reliance;
Daniel Webster. orator; Horace Gree
ley, publiciSt; Robert E. Lee. military
leader. ideal Southern gentleman;
Abraham Lincoln; Maj. John Wesley
Powell. Government engineer and
scientist; Mark Twain. interpreter OF
American life, and Theodore Roose.
velt"
Michael L. Eidsness, jr, writing in
Stamps Magazine. urges heroes of
peace" series, including: Harriet
Beecher Stowe, whose Uncle Toms
Cabin" foreshadowed the Emancipa-
tion Proclamation; Clara Barton
founder of the American Red Cross;
Susan B. Anthony. pioneer for the
equal franchise; Jane Addams, propa-
gandist for world peace; Stephen Col
| Inns Foster, maker of immortal songs:
Edgar Allan Poe, poet and prose vir-
tuoso, now chiefly remembered as the
inventor of the mystery story; Fran
els Scott Key, author of 'The Star
! Spangled Banner; Ralph Waldo En-
erson, civilized American philosopher;
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first ma
! tive bard of permanent distinction;
/ Walt Whitman, apostle of democracy:
Frederick Douglass, Negro publicist and
reformer; Mark Twain, greatest Amer
ican humorist; Ethelbert Nevin, COM
poser of The Rosary; Thomas Alva
Edison, the added schoolboy, who en-
riched mankind with the greatest
number of useful inventions ever to
| be conceived by a single mind; and
| Will Rogers. well-beloved humanist
| prophet of tolerance and brotherhood
President Roosevelt, Mr.. Eidsness
says, lis a sensitive man. He knows
that civilization Is made by the heroes
of peace just as definitely as it is
defended by the heroes of war"
Chester L. Lankford, president,
Franklin D. Roosevelt Stamp Club,
| Douglas. Ga, proposes stamps in re-
membrance of Rear Admiral Robert
E. Peary, "discoverer" of the North
Pole. and DR.. Walter Reed, celebrated
Army physician and surgeon. The
| inspiration of such lives as theirs" he
says, lis very great"
Rivalry exists between the Army and
| the Navy for favored positions in the
| projected series. Each wants the low
denomination values in the theory that
they will be the most generally used
To meet the difficulty, there may
be two sets-1c, &c, SC, 4c, etc, for
the Army and the same for the Navy.
Another suggestion is that all the
commemorative be issued in 1c form.
The Rhode Island commemorative,
to be issued in May, will show an in
tended portrait of Roger Williams and
the State seal. 1t will be a Scent
value, purple in color, same size as the
Mothers day stamp.
Only 425,000 sets Of the suppressed
potato tax stamps were printed-a
number drastically cut by the scrap
ping of Straight-edge copies.
Alvin r. Meissner designed the
issue, G.. F. C. Smillie engraved the
portrait of Potato Annie; and D. r.
Mcleod, w. B. Wells, E. w. Crocker,
E. M. Weeks, E. Helmuth, H. S. Nutter
and A. Payne were responsible for the
denomihational dies.
The stamps were printed on a fat
bed press.
Plate numbers are: lb., 132862 and
13293S; lb., l32S17; 3 lb., 132S06; 4
h., 132s63 and 132S7s; h., 1922
and 132880; 10 lb., 1928; Is h.,
132S18; IS lb, 1924; so lb., 132735
to. 132738, inclusive; 100 lb., 1929 to
132742; 1875 lb., l32874; $50 lb., 132946
and 200 lb., 132919 and 132920.
Intending purchasers should apply
at the Office of the Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue, Room 1902, Internal
Revenue Buildingg. Total face value
of the set: $5.18.
Those who have not obtained speci-
mems of the 16-cent, steel blue, air.