Evening star., 1938-10-23
By James Waldo Fawcetf.

Fourth American Philatelic Congress,
Hotel Bond, Hartford, Conn, Friday
and Saturday, November II and IL, are
announced as follows: "Philatelic Re-
search in Stamp Designs" by DR.. Ar
thur Bevan. State geologist Of Vir-
ginia; Cultural Values of Philately,"
by Capt. Wilbur r. Van Auken, U. S.
NJ: Stamp Paper" by Elmer C..
Pratt, philatelic editor, Camden Cour-
ier-Post; "A Possible improvement in
United States Postmarks," by DR.. John
H. Buchness, Baltimore; ITO Make
You Think" by Prescott Holden
Thorp, former editor, SCOTS Monthly
Stamp Journal POSTMASTER Franks, i"
by John w. Longnecker, former presi-
dent, Stamp Collectors Club of, Hart
ford; "Why Airmails?" by l.. B. Catch
ell: Confederate Stamps on Cover" by
Charles A. Pertsch; THE Suppressed
Freedom from Slavery Stamp of ia
maica," by c. Brinkley Turner; ''Is the
Tail Wagging the Dog?" by Norman
r. Hoover; Beauty and the Beast"
by Herman Herst, jr.; "First-Day
Cover Collecting" by T. Russell Hun
gerford; "A Hobby Becomes a Busi-
ness" by Lewis B. Sebring, jr., and
''Where Do We Go From Here?" by
Theodore j. Gundlach.
Also, AN Interesting Experiment in
a Limited Field of Philately," by Paul
Noble Peck; "A Study of the U. S. No.
A Stamps" by Leo J. Shaughnessy,
Sharon, Pa, and The Newspaper
Stamp Column and Its Service to
Philately," by Henry Herbert Huff,
stamp editor, Rockford Morning Star.
"The Nation Museum by DR.. Alex
ander Wetmore, assistant secretary,
Smithsonian Institution; I'VE Juniors"
by William Irvine, Sd; THE Philatelic
Columnists Are Passing Up Bet" by
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman; Greet
ings From France" by Theodore
Champion, Paris, and message from
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Ramsey S. Black.
The American Philatelic Society
will meet next year in San Francisco.
Meanwhile the educational work of the
organization will go forward. Fur
ther handbooks are to be published
and the campaign to help children in
their stamp collecting is to be con-
tinued.
Such were the decisions of the re-
cent New Orleans convention, at
tended by Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
Miss Irene M. Pistorio, Philip Simms
Warren, Valdemar Weiergang, Robert
A, TruaX and other Washingtonians.
The American Society for the Hard
Of Hearing, 1887 Thirty-fifth street
NV, has issued an attractive poster
label in aid of its work. little girl,
listening to the tick of an old-fash-
ioned clock, appears in the design.
Copies may be had at 81 per sheet of
100, but smaller quantities are avail
able at l cent each. Please send
stamped and self-addressed envelope
with order
When the United States Constitu-
ton stamps of loyalist Spain were
put on the market in Paris it was
denied that imperforate copies had
been manufactured. Now, at long last,
comes confirmation of the original
rumor Stamps Magazine says: 1--WE
have heard that one sheet has
been found" Others, doubtless, soon
will be reported.
The annual pro juventute stamps
OF Switzerland will be released on De-
cember /.
Placed on sale October /, the 1888
health stamp of New Zealand. 1p plus
lp, red, shows two children playing
on hedged lawn.
The second volume Of Stanley B
Ashbrook's specialized study of the
United States 1-cent stamp Of 1851
1857 has been published by Harry L.
Lindquist, 2 West Forty sixth street,
New York City.
Harry S. New, Postmaster Geneml
In the administration of President
Calvin Coolidge, once wrote: THE
words post Office are an inheritance
from the past. derived from the old
Roman 'posta,' which was the name
applied to the point at which a
courier delivered a message to fresh
runner to continue on its journey.
The spot was marked by post
hence the term post Office"
When the 10pf, carmine, Frederick
the Great stamp of Germany ap-
peared in 1926, various liberal organi-
Bations and individual radicals pro-
tested against paying homage to "a
militarist." A business establishment
in Hanover announced that it would
refuse to accept mail franked with the
famous Prussian's portrait. The
postal authorities answered that such
. boycott was illegal and insulting"
Large stocks of the 1881 stamps of
Switzerland are being distributed in
the international market. They come
from Paris, where huge quantities"
still are available.
It sounds like press agents story
but it happens to be true that Deanna
Durbln is stamp collector. Sne
has been b reader of Mekeels Weekly
Stamp News "for some time"
A stamp forger has been arrested
in Paris for taking 1914 issues Of
Epirus. Plates were found in his
possession for forging Moroccan Jubi-
lees of Great Britain, German Polar
Flight surcharges and other rarities.
Among men of science represented
In the philatelic gallery 1gnatz Mos
cicki should be Included. He was
inaugurated as third President OF
Poland on June 4, 1925. but long before
STAMPS.
Stamp Collections. 4: 1000, 1000. 2.70O,
1000, mounted in albums; the pick Of
ens million stamps for only $500, S25.
SO, 80, respectively. Also loose stamps.
clean. at SIS 4 lb. Tell. 321 N ST S,K. .