Evening star., 1937-09-19

| CIleSe new stamps are calculateQ u
make Italians determined to keel
their place in the African sun.
"A similar series, it is expected
soon will be issued for Abyssinia
despite the fact that post Offices il
that vast country are still so few tha
almost all the stamps will be bought
by unwary stamp collectors, whose
purchases will help to fill the empty
| Golfers of II Ducei"
The subject announced for DIR. Wet.
more's address is Birds and Stamps,
and there will be an exhibition to il
lustrate his lecture.
The Department of Commerce an
nounces that airmail rates between
Argentina and Europe have been in
creased from approximately 80 cents
to 35 cents per letter, but the new
schedule does not apply to the postal
air traffic between Argentina and the
United States.
Fred A. Spielman of Fairfield. Iowa
we'll known among stamp collectors in
the Middle West, distributed souvenir
folders containing Confederate States
$lOO bills at the American Phihtelic
Society convention at Detroit. The
mementoes, he explained, were pledges
of "a nation that passed away,
a storm Graded nation that fell"
A rotary press Of the type used in
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing costs about $4,000. New equip
ment, needed for the production of
more attractive and better printed
stamps" would involve the expendi-
ture of more than 100000 mere
bagatelle as related to the $2,OOO,OOO
worth of business done by the Phila-
telic Agency in an average year.
According to the Camden Courier
Post, the recent souvenir sheets OF
Danzig and Iceland never were put
on sale in ordinary post offices. They
were manufactured exclusively fol-
the philatelic market.
Scott's Catalogue will list l41 diff
ferent stamps issued by loyalist and
rebel authorities since the beginning
of the civil war in Spain.
Sales of the illustrated edition q,
the Post Office Departments Offlcia'
Description of United States Postage
Stamps have reached 10000 copies
The first national stamp competi-
ton, arranged by Edward Bruce, chief
OF the painting and sculpture branch
OF the Procurement Division of the
Treasury Department, closed on Wed
nesday. More than 1000 designs had
been received within the stipulated
time limit The jury to decide the
winners will meet shortly. Mrs. Cath
crime l.. Manning, philatelic curator
Of the Smithsonian Institution. and
H. M. Southgate, president of the
Bureau Issues Association, are among
the members.
The post Office at Greenbelt, Md,
FIRST made-to-order city of the New
Deal, will open for business on Mon
day, September 27. George w.
Bryant. acting postmaster, has signi-
fed that he will be glad to Cooperate
with cover collectors who may want
f1rst-day cancellations.
THE Constitution of the United
States" Harry B. Cation Of Alexan-
dria told members of the Washington
Philatelic Society assembled for 8
sesquicentennial celebration meeting
at the Hotel Carlton on Wednesday
evening, means as much to stamr
collectors as it does to the public
IN general 1t traces back to q stamr
"a tax stamp which brought about
the Revolution, and it contains in its
text the authority for the establish.
ment of post Offices and post road.
which eventually was to result in the
issuance Of all our postage stamps
from 1847 onward"
Telling the factual story of how
So representatives of the people O,
IL former British colonies journeyee
TO Philadelphia in May, 1877, the
speaker discussed the unity of pur.
pose which prompted them to Join ir
the framing Of the basic law of the
land. Though the names of man,
OF these delegates may be lost tc
memory" he said, they were ir
comparison with any body of men al
any time or place or for any pur-
pose met the equal if not superior
in joint and several accomplishment,
for the public good. None was with
out experience in public service
Forty-six had served in Colonial O,
Continental Legislatures. Forty hao
been members of the Continental Con-
gress. Twenty-Five were college men
IL had been officers in the armies
"a were lawyers. 8 were merchants OF
bankers, 6 planters, physicians, sew
eral had been college professors-and
l was then and / later was to be
college president-and 2 were min
lsters OF the gospel. The average ape
OF these men was A years. Frank.
I'M was the Oldest at 81; Jonathan
Dayton of New Jersey, the youngest
at 70 years of age. Only IA were
above 80 years old; 10 were under 81
an early youth movement
"On September II, 1887, there Law
upon the presiding officers desk -four
sheets OF paper, 1884 by 235s inches
IN size, containing with interlinea-
tions less than 5000 words, ready for
signature. Thirty-eight delegates
signed IN person, one by proxy, three
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