Evening star., 1937-12-05

News of the Phatic World Its the Stamp
Press-Iis of Local Meetings.

urged by Representative Robert Z.
Luce Of Massachusetts,.
The farmer portrayed In the Scent
Alaska stamp is blowing with q "left-
handed plow," according to Harold
Klefman, writing in Mekeel's Weekly
Stamp News for November 70.
Miss Blanche Bezuchova Of the
CzecfAoslovak Legation is Q stamp col
lector. -
Referring to the Guatemala minia-
ture sheet showing portraits OF George
Washington and President Roosevelt,
c. G. Alton Means, stamp editor OF
the New Haven Register, says: "The
issue OF these sheets Is for no good
purpose. The stamps will fill no prac-
tical need, and they will be sold purely
for profit. Honor to our Constitu.
ton is q secondary matter, which
serves only as good excuse for the
issue Of another sheet, Of which there
are altogether too many. It Is an
amazing circumstance that philately,
by the collecting OF these ridiculous
novelties, sometimes Of doubtful au-
| thenticity, should have fallen to such
low level"
Photography as it relates to phila-
| tely was the subject Of the November
"a meeting Of the Washington Phila.
| telic Society, Hotel Carlton Members
| of the Washington Pictorialists, tn.s
| cluding Morgan w. Wickersham and
Lewis N Whitman, were guests Of
honor. Others participating in the
program included Royal H. Carlock
and DR.. Albert c. Schwarting. Harry
Goodman, Star staff photographer,
| demonstrated picture taking methods.
The exhibition of the meeting con-
sisted of several hundred prints. G. A.
| Lyon, associate editor of The Star,
displayed views made in Japan, Ha-
waii, Egypt, Italy, Central America
and the United States; Mr.. Carlock,
Washington scenes; the Washington
Pictorialists, portraits and STORY
| telling" compositions
Earlier in the evening a meeting
Of the Washington Federation of
Junior Stamp Collectors was held in
the same assembly room. Robert c.
philatelic questions contest, with
prizes for the most accurate answers
Copies Of the Third American Phila-
telic Congress book, containing all
papers read at Chicago, may be had
from R. A. Kimble, 8ll8 Dante avenue,
that city, at 81 each.
Stamps Magazine reprints the fol-
lowing from St. Nicholas Magazine
for May, 1880: I'VE cannot share the
enthusiasm of those deluded persons
who hoard up defaoed and used
United States postage stamps in the
vague hope that certain large num-
Der of thousands Of the worthless
things will bring tremendous price
somehow and somewhere. The postal
authorities say that these old stamps
are worth simply their weight in old
paper"
H. M. Konwiser has suggested to
Post Ofice Department officials that
they issue a sheet of so stamps, one
for each State, one showing the Amer
ican flag and one representing per
haps a map Of the United States"
The 48 State commemorative"
would be pictorial in character. Such
production might solve the problem
of neighborhood issues, eliminate them
forever. Many collectors believe that
national stamps should be exclusively
national in purpose. No com
memorative," they argue, should be
issued to publicize any event of purely
local importance.
Max Wilson, a New York dealer,
has announced the discovery of an
ether unused copy Of the rare No.
594 type of the 1-cent stamp Of 1922
1926, rotary press, peri. IL.
Roy M. North, Acting Third As
sistant Postmaster General, is re-
sponsible for the use of the new
magenta ink in the production Of the
Constitution and Puerto Rico stamps.
Stamps Magazine credits him with
the recommendation.
The Niagara 25-cent stamp Of the
United States shows the Canadian
Falls, and the Niagara 20-cent stamp
Of Canada shows the American Falls.
Doubtless, the philosophy Of reciproc-
ity is represented in the exchange of
compliments.
Prizes for exhibition frames dis
played during National Philatelic
Week have been awarded to c. Hercus
Just for q map showing Of United
States commemorative, Mrs. Grace
L. MacKnight for genealogical ar
rangement of royal portrait stamps of
Great Britain, Belgium, Austria and
the Netherlands, and Francis B.
Leech for airmail covers.
Mrs. Frederick j. Roy, wife Of a
well-known Washington philatelist,
died on Wednesday.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 7:30, Wash
ington Stamp Club of the Air, from
Station VOL. Albert F. Kunze will
discuss stamps and history.
Tuesday evening at 8, Washington
Collectors Club, Thomson School,
Twelfth street Program, exhibition,
auction and bourse Public invited.
Wednesday evening at 8, Washing
ton Philatelic Society, Hotel Carlton,
Sixteenth street, quarterly business
meeting. Members only admitted.
Saturday afternoon at /, Philatelic
Luncheon Group, Hotel Harrington,
Eleventh street. Round table discus
sion OF stamp news. Guests welcome.