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Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Monday and
Tuesday, December 7 and s, are prac-
tically complete.
Donald w. Martin, host club chair
man, representing the Garheld-Perry
Stamp Club and cooperating bodies,
yesterday announced that the follow
ing papers have been prepared and
will be read during the two days of
the assembly: Some Side Lights on
Airmail History" H. H. Griffin, past
president American Airmail Society:
United States Issues of 1918-1920."
Don L. Lybarger. Cuyahoga County
recorder, a special student of offset
printing processes; British Silver
Jubilees," George Tanning, civil engi-
neer. Erie Railroad; Stamps of the
Leeward Islands," M. j. Lloyd; RE
conditioning Covers" Perry Hobbs;
"Three-cent, 1851. Leo J. Shaugh-
messy. Sharon, Pa; "A New Chicago
Local." DR.. Clarence w. Herman, past
president American Philatelic Society.
Chicago; "Philatelic Literature" Ralph
A. Kimble, editor the American
Philatelist; civil War Revenues,
Joseph L. Bopeley, Newark, Ohio;
Recent Gauge Railway Post
Offices Robert W. Richardson, Akron,
Ohio; What I'd Like to Do" Don E.
Dickson, Wooster, Ohio. and "Por-
trait Stamp Collecting" Milton R..
Miller, Batavia, N. Y
Mr.. Martin himself will consider
How Come Those Straight Edges?"
The congress bourse, in the tradition
of last year. will be feature of the
gathering. Dealers and traders from
all parts Of the country are planning
to attend.
At the congress banquet Eugene
Klein. president, American Philatelic
Society, will preside.
Washington philatelists planning to
be present include DR.. Ellis Haworth,
president, Washington Philatelic So
ciety; Alden H. Whitney, regional vice
president, Society of Philatelic Amer
leans; Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
philatelic curator, Smithsonian Insti-
tuition: Philip Simms Warren, vice
president, American Philatelic Society;
David H. Davenport. Albert F. Kunze.
Michael L. Eidsness. jr.; Gerard Ten
Eyck Beeckman and others.
The National Federation of Stamp
Clubs has voted against approx
ing a commemorative for the opening
of the Northwest Territory.
Collectors who have friends in
Buenos Aires should arrange for covers
from the Pan-American Conference,
an occasion already historic.
Reynolds Newspaper, London, says:
New postage stamps generally reflect
the trend of world opinion. In Feb
ruary. 1892, when the International
Disarmament Conference opened at
Geneva, the Swiss government issued
two sets of stamps, one for ordinary
postal use, the other to pay postage on
airmail. Emblems of peace were in
corporated in the designs. The dove
with an olive branch in its beak and
broken sword told the world that
the end of war was near. Now, four
years later, when the world is men,
aced by another war. the Swiss Post
Office is disposing of the remainder OF
its disarmament stamps at bargain
prices. In order to effect an early
clearance the airmal stamps have been
written down by as much as SO per
cent, and stamps formerly sold for 20
centimes are now surcharged 80" in
mournful black. The peace stamps
have put on mourning!"
"Philately," according to Ashley Le
Due, "is the hobby that rests the
nerves; irons out the aches and
pains; furnishes intellectual food for
the students; banishes care; salts
fies the artistic temperament, and
earns dividends for the cool and cal
culating.''
For the first Ecuadorian philatelic
exhibition, which opened October 20,
the government of Ecuador produced
a special series of triangular stamps,
as follows: &c, green; SC, purple; 10c,
carmine; zoe, black; SOC, blue, and
IS, red.
Afghanistan brought out sop
Autographed stamp Of symbolic de-