Evening star., 1937-09-26
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
G. Robert Kay, stamp editor, Asso-
ciated Press. wires from New York:
1.-TWO philatelic events with widely di-
vergent aims will be presented at New
York and Chicago in october.
"The National Stamp Exhibition at
the Museum of Science and Industry,
Rockefeller Center, October 2 to 10,
will be a pure propaganda project,
seeking to depict the attractions of
philately SO as to increase the numbers
Of the garden variety of stamp COL
lectors in the Nation.
THE Third American Philatelic
Congress, at the Hotel La Sale, Chi
cago, October 90 to 81, will concen-
trate on the scientific aspects of stamp
collecting with view to encouraging
research and study of stamps them
selves.
THE New York exhibition will in
clude stamps and covers that will ap-
peal to non-collectors and influence
them to take up the hobby, scientific
exhibits will be discouraged and lee
lures will be confined to popular topics
relating to stamp collecting
"The Chicago conference will at
tract serious students of postal ennis
sions. Topics of some of the papers,
for instance. are Stamp Frequencies
With Comparative Functions Chi
cago Street Railway Post Offices and
Plating the Center-Line Blocks Of
No. 612.'
THE New York exhibit will be
unique in that it will include no ad-
vertising or dealers booths, which are
80 much in evidence at stamp exhibi-
tions generally, but the philatelic
scientists at Chicago will not entirely
evade 'commercialism. A bourse will
be feature of the Chicago Philatelic
Societys open house in connection
with the congress"
First-day sales of the Scent Con-
etitution seSquicentennial commence
ratlve at Philadelphia, September II.
are reported as 8S0l00 copies. The
number OF covers cancelled was 281,-
Alb. Acting Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Roy M North and Supt.
OF the Division of Stamps Robert E.
Fellers we're in charge of arrangements
for the accommodation Of collectors.
postmaster General Farley on Tues
Gay announced: For the convenience
Of collectors desiring to submit first
day covers to the postmaster at
Honolulu for servicing the Hawaiian
commemorative stamp, to be issued on
Monday, October 18, the following
statement gives the steamships desig-
mated to convey mails from Pacific
coast ports to Honolulu, Hawaii: Oc-
tober l, from San Pedro, S. S. Malolo:
October 2, from San Francisco, Presi-
dent Cleveland; October 5, from San
Francisco, President U. S. Grant; Oc-
tober S, from San Francisco, S. S.
Maliko; October 7, from San Fran
cisco, S. S. Taiyo Maru; October 9.
from San Francisco, President Adams;
October II, from San Francisco, S. S.
Mariposa.
'Airmail service to Honolulu is
scheduled to leave San Francisco every
Wednesday at 3 pm, arriving in
Honolulu at $50 am. Thursday. The
postage rate is 20 cents per half
ounce"
Peter Gouled, writing in Stamps
Magazine for September Is. claims
credit for having suggested to the Post
Office Department the use of the
UnrdS HEIrct nc 1f
ceiling dies employed on f1rst-day
mailings.
The stamp collection of the late
Col. j. NJ T. Particle, who served his
country in seven wars and was we'll
known in Washington philatelic
circles for many years, will be sold
at unrestricted public auction by
Nicolas Sanabria, Inc, New York.
Wednesday and Thursday. Approx
imately 100000 stamps are to be
knocked down" to the highest bid
ders.
George B. Sloane declares: Com
plant is general regarding the pale
blue color the department chose for
Its recent Virginia Dare scent COM
memorative, and the color does fail
to do justice to the lovely picture.
The department possibly intended it
for baby blue, since an infant was
featured, but from all accounts the
first white child born in the New
World was female, and If this line
OF reasoning was followed, then, ac-
cording to custom, pink should have
been more appropriate. At any rate,
80 per cent of the stamps seen on
mail are in sorry shape and what a
blobby handstamp can do to a deli
cately colored stamp is cruel to con-
template"
winners of the National Stamp
Contest, arranged by Edward Bruce,