Evening star., 1936-05-31

games issue, 6-pfennig green mark
ing the 250th anniversary of Otto Won
Guericke's death. He was a seven
teenth century physicist and inventor
OF the air pump. His portrait is on
the stamp.
In addition, Yugoslavia has under
preparation four stamps bearing the
picture Of the queen mother, to be
printed for the benefit of the Yugo-
slavian Union for the Protection of
Children.
Cyprus, the most easterly island
in the Mediterranean, has had an
erratic existence, belonging success
sively to the Phoenicians, Greeks,
Egyptians, Persians and again the
Egyptians, and then in 81 B. c., be-
came a Roman province. In 1871
Richard Occur de Lion" conquered
it in his third crusade, and then in
l4Ss it fell into the hands of the
Venetians, in whose hands it re-
manned until conquered by the
Turks in 1871. In 1873 it was ceded
to England by treaty at the conven-
ton concluded between England and
Turkey.
In 1928 in commemoration of the
f1ftieth year of Cyprus as a British
colony a series of 10 stamps was
issued: 34-pi., dark violet. the motif
of which was the silver coin of
Amathus; 1-pi., Prussian blue, PHI
iosopher zeno: 112-pi.. red, medieval
map of Cyprus; 21a a-pi., ultramarine,
discovering remains of st. Barna-
bas; 4-pi., deep red-brown, cloisters
OF Monastery of Bella Pals; Cpl.
dark blue, badge of the colony; g.
pi,, violet-brown. statue of Richard,
"Coer de Lion" 45-pi., deep bite
and violet, st. Nicholas Cathedral.
and 1-pound, brown and deep
blue, King George v.
The National Park Service is rea-
sonably certain there was a post Of
nee at Old Kings Gap near Warm
Springs between 1881 and 1855.
But 1t wants some tangible proof
"a postmarked envelope or letter
cover bearing the stamp of the old
tavern post.
If found, the relic will be placed
IN the museum now being set UP at
Pine Mountain State Park.
The Third International Philatelic
Exhibition, writes Michael L. Eidsness,
Jr.' as foreword to the TIPEx cata-
log, would have little significance If
II were merely an occasion for the
oHplay OF stamps. To non collectors.
anyway, 1t must seem important that
1t should bring together so numerous
a company Of men and women from
dlf1erent countries, different races
de1erent classes. The scraps of paper
which began and closed the World
War, perhaps, were less effective as
ties to bind humanity together than
these tiny colored fragments with
which we philatelists are concerned.
But our stamps are just symbols.
They serve only to indicate the back
ground of civilization which postal
communication promotes. Goodwill
supports them in the work they do:
fraternity OF business or social inter-
course is depicted in every single one
OF them. They witness to tolerance
and charity, justice and mutually in
progress among states.
And our exhibition is symptomatic
of the best values of modern life. It
reflects history, the arts and the
sciences, education and sociology.
and religion. All the
things that the human species cares
about are portrayed in stamp designs.
No wonder we study them with devo-
ton. They speak a language of faith
and hope to those who have ears to
listen, and they offer a pageant of
beauty to those who have eyes to see.
Kings and presidents, princes and
prelates respond to their attraction.
But among the most enthusiastic
philatelists of my acquaintance there
also have been plain people good to
know-the variety Of people Lincoln
meant when he said God must have
loved them, since He made 80 many
Of them
SIT cannot be repeated too often that