Evening star., 1937-09-12

cannot be present in person. but
would like to be present in spirit"
AT the close of the meeting, it was
announced that an anonymous mem
Der of the society has offered a sum
of money to provide for the annual
award of an engraved silver plate in
Mr. Eidsness' name for helpful serv-
ice" rendered to philately. The So
ciety'S Board of Governors will make
the award on March % of each year
the anniversary of Mr.. Eidsness birth.
Miss Styron played an elegy at the
end of the program.
Those present included: Acting
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Roy M. North and Mrs. North, Robert
E. Fellers, Mr.. Eidsness' successor as
superintendent of the Division of
Stamps; Mrs. Myrtle c. Shaughnessy,
Miss Pearl Bond, Miss Alice B. Cilley,
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, Mrs.
Dorothy Hice, Miss Mollie Lewis.
Philip Simms Warren, John R. Ewell,
Harry =. Dunkhorst, DR.. M. G.. Skin
ner, Clyde V. De Binder. Alden H.
Whitney, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester l..
Lankford, Theodore A Forbes, John
K. Hedler, DR.. T. S. Palmer, Mrs.
Grace r. MacKnight Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin B. Martin, Victor w. Rotnem.
M. l.. Schoenthal Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick r. Rice, William T. Raley, Robert
Bilsborough. Miss Helen Vorhees, Sid
ney Rapke, Valdemar Weiergang,
Geof1 A. Saeger, Harry A. Fox, DR..
Fenton Bradford. Harry B. Cation,
Carol M. Farquhar, Morton o. Cooper.
j. Michael Brown, Dr. Emil Ferdinand
Hirschberger, Judson N. Knappen and
Ernest A. Grant.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. James Nicholson.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sanderson. Mr..
and Mrs. Gustave Beckman, Mrs. Paul
Travis, Mrs. Helen Holmes, Miss Bruce
jones, Mrs. Bertram Litchfield. Mrs.
Aubrey Cheatham, Milton Gallinant.
Paul Boyden, Miss Eleanor Johnston.
Miss Gladys Escher, Miss Yettie Horo-
witz, Miss Eleanor Shearer. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Lorenz, George Peterson
and Robert Lee Carter.
Mr.. Eidsness' family was repre-
sented by his father and foster
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Michael L.
Eidsness, sr.; his wife and sons. Mrs.
Michael l.. Eidsness, jr., and Fred
erick and James Eidsness; Mr.. and
Mrs. Lars M. Eidsness, Mrs. Thomas
G. Gale, Mrs. Gerda E. Klucken. Mrs,
Lee D. Hall, Miss Gladys L. Hail. Earl
w. Hall, Mrs. Arthur Bergeson, and
the Misses Marjorie, Dorothy and
Verna Bergeson.
The exhibition of the evening con-
sisted of photographs and documents
collected by Mr. Eidsness, printed
copies of his contributions to the phil
atellc press, the manuscripts OF his
speeches, his philatelic scrapbooks and
other souvenirs of his career as q
postal official and writer.
A mailing equipment manufacturing
company argues the virtues of postal
meter mail as follows: "A better and
safer way of paying postage, speeds
delivery by obviating routine postal
operations, eliminates mutilation, mis-
use and theft of stamps. saves time and
preparation costs in handling mail
permits automatic printing of adver-
tisements on envelopes and parcels and
advertises your progressiveness to al
who see your mail"
To which it may be retorted
"Metered mail is impersonal. me-
chanical in appearance, drab and
colorless, conserves time only in theory
actually does little or nothing to dis
courage theivery, lacks dignity and
historic significance, gives an impres-
sion of gadgety Babbittry. which ir.
ritates sensitive people in general, and
antagonizes the philatelic public In
particular"