Evening star., 1937-11-14

drab red brown, the Indian Nicarao;
SC, black purple, Friar Bartolome de
las Casas; &c, blue, Columbus; l0c,
brown, same as 4c; 15c, light blue,
same as SC, and zoe, rose red, same
as &c.
The American Philatelist for No
vember contains a memoir of Percy
A. Hill, prominent Manila stamp COL
lector and writer, who was murdered
by burglars at Munoz, Nuexa Ecija,
Philippine Islands, July % last.
Warren Irving Glover, jr, son of
the former First Assistant Postmaster
General, is an applicant for member
ship in the American Philatelic So
ciety.
Rev. Father J. F. O'Hurley, United
States specialist and a recognized
authority in that branch Of philately,
now may be addressed at 32l Willings
alley, Philadelphia.
The precancel roundup. held at
the Old Ebbitt Cafeteria, Fourteenth
and F streets NV. last Sunday.
brought together a large number of
professional and amateur collectors
Of precanceled stamps. Arrange
ments were in charge of the Capital
Precancel Club, George w. Hawse,
secretary
Stephen G. Rich of Verona, N. j.,
editor OF the Precancel Bee, was pres
ent throughout the day, and Moriz
Bernstein of Philadelphia also attend
ed. There were delegations from New
York, Atlantic City, Baltimore, Ha-
2erstown. Richmond, Lynchburg and
Harrisonburg registered.
A feature of the program was
donation auction, in which E. G.
Jewell of Damascus, Md, was the
successful bidder for rare Glen AL
len, Va, specimen.
DR.. Albert c. Schwarting of the
Library of Congress has been in
Madison, Wis. on business. He is
expected to return to Washington to-
morrow.
The Scent Alaska stamp, which
went on f1rst-day sale at Juneau on
Friday, does not please Anthony Di-
mond, Territorial Delegate in Congress.
There are not enough trees in the
picture" he says, land there should
be two-instead of one-horses.
Mount GpKiv1o1,
ural"
Mr.. Dimond, referring particularly
to the plowman, insists: They use
two horses up there"
Rolph Chamberlain, speaking from
Station VOL on the Your WASHINGTON
program last Sunday morning, urged
stamp collectors of all ages to visit
the philatelic division of the Smith
sonian Institution, where, he said. they
may see "a COLLECTION that is exceeded
In Importance only by the famous
Postal Museum collection in Berlin"
Until the communication of ideas
was made possible by the transmission
OF writing from one community to
another" Mr.. Chamberlain explained.
culture. commerce and human re-
lations were bounded by the limits of
the word-of-mouth message or bv
the length to which one could intrust
a message for delivery by the casual
traveller. To us, who take the mail as
a commonplace everyday life, this
may seem trlte, but it was recognized
$500 years before Christ by King
Sargon of Babylon, whose great seal.
now preserved in the Louvre in Paris.
probably was the first postage stamp
ever used. Impressed on cylinders of
baked clay and feared by all men. 1t
guaranteed the right of way for his
postmen as the little bit of colored
paper guarantees the right of way
for your letters over the greatest
railway, steamship and airway sys-
TENS of the modern world.
Ihen came the Pharoah. whose
messengers outwitted the priests and
overthrew the old gods of Egypt;
who brought news of the
victory at Marathon; the messengers
OF Queen Esther, who saved the Jews
from extinction; the messengers of
Ine roman post roads; Roland the
Falthful, and his message that saved
Europe for Christianity in 1872: Chem
eis Khan, the mighty Mongol. who
ruieo the world from the China Sea
10 the BoSporus and whose mail