Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-21
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopeReview
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
Bv James Waldo Fa1Cceff.

Bv James Waldo FazCceff.
President Roosevelt and former
President Hoover have been invited
to exhibit selected portions of their
stamp collections at the Fourth Amer
lean Philatelic Congress, to be held
at Hartford, Conn, November IL to ID.
The japanese postal authorities
have conceded that sales Of special
patriotic" stamps have been disap-
pointing" Instead of million yen
profit, only about 100000 yen had
been collected up to May 81. The
stamps went on sale June l. 1887,
and were designated "for the en-
couragement of aviation" Values are
1, 5 and 6 sen, representing an over
charge of 2 sen In each instance.
For the new series of Burma -four
designs have been selected from 252
submitted by Burmese artists in a
government competition. The first
prize was awarded for drawing
showing the royal barge of native
king.
Norfolk Island, dependency Of
Australia, soon will celebrate the
sesqui- of settlement, and
there are rumors to the effect that
a series of stamps may be issued for
the use Of 100 inhabitants of the
colony. The island was discovered
by Capt. James Cook in 1744. From
l744 to 1888 and from 1925 to 1856
1t was a penal station.
The Scent Martin Van Buren, stamp
reproduces a portrait bust by Uric
Stonewall Jackson Dunbar, born at
London. Ontario, Canada, January
81. 1862, but long resident Of Wash
ington. Perhaps his best known work
is the statue of Gov Alexander r.
Shepherd standing IN front Of the
District Building But he also is rep
resented in the Corcoran Gallery, the
Minnesota State Capitol at St. Paul,
the Union League Club in New York,
etc
Mr.. Dunbar received medals and
diplomas for his contributions to the
Atlanta, Buffalo and St. Louis expo
sitions. He was member of the
National Art Association, the Nation
al Society Of Fine Arts and the So
ciety Of Washington Artists. He died
May 7, 1927.
To illustrate how the presidential
series OF stamps may stir forgotten
scandal the following paragraph from
THE Epic of America" by James
Truslow Adams, may be quoted: The
1andhungry whites were alarmed.
They saw their hopes dashed If the
Indians should become moral, law
abiding, and insistent upon remain
ing upon their lands William Henry
Harrison was governor of the Indian
Territory. He met the situation by
making treaty with a few scat
tered and irresponsible Savages who
ceded TecumSeh's hunting grounds
and then Harrison, advancing on Te-
cumseh's camp. provoked a fight, the
famous battle of Tippecanoe. Te-
cumseh's conspiracy was broken, but
the affair was raw enough and had
to be glorifled. Rumor was spread
and gladly believed that the English
in Canada had been behind the saw
age in egging him on to keep the
Americans off his lands, and the
streams from the vidaals of moral in
dignation were diverted from Har-
rison and the westeners to the Brit
ish, who, having been the enemy for
40 years, could easily be made the
scape-goats for anything As q mat
ter Of fact, we know now that they
had nothing whatever to do with
Tecumseh."
The Associated Press, in a report
distributed universally on August 10,
said The Post ONCE Department
wishes more persons would adopt
stamp collecting as a hobby. The
more collectors, the greater the profit
for the Government"
1t is indicated that the philatelic
exhibition truck. now being built in
Chicago, will not be equipped with
sales windows. Instead, local post