Evening star., 1938-03-13
ByJames Waldo Fawceff.

By James Waldo Fawceff
Postmaster General James A. Earle.
on Monday announced his stamp pro-
gram for 1898. Such a development
had been forecast In The Star fol
the previous day. It had been ex-
pec.ed since January /. but had beer
delayed by President Roosevelt's re-
luctance to express his approval.
The plan, as anticipated. provides
for the issuance of 81 regular postage
values. In the official release dis
tributed by the Post once Depart
ment Press Bureau it is explained
that 1.-The portrait of every deceased
President Of the United States will
appear" in the SERIES I'm addition,
the portraits Of Benjamin Franklin
and Martha Washington, wife Of the
frst President. will be used"
Arranged Sin the order of their
White House terms" the list is given
as follows: l2c, Franklin; lc, WASH
ington; 1l2c, Martha Washington; &c,
John Adams; &c, Thomas Jefferson;
&c. Madison; Acc, Monroe; SC, John
Quincy Adams; &c, jackson; 7c, Van
Buren,; &c. William Henry Harrison;
&c. Tyler: l0c, Polk; lie. Taylor; 12c,
Fillmore; l3c. Pierce: lac. Buchanan;
l5c, Lincoln; l6c, Johnson: l7c Grant;
l8c, Hayes; 19c, Garfield; zoe, Arthur;
25c, Cleveland; 3Oc, Benjamin Har-
rison; Csc, Mckinley; 40c, Theodore
Roosevelt; soc. Taft: 81, Wilson; So,
Harding, and IS, Coolidge
Including the six new denomina-
tions introduced (41ac, l6c. l8c
l9c. Csc and 40c), the set will cost
collectors sl1.97, blocks of four, $47.86.
Plate number specialists must be pre-
pared to invest $1,196.50 for a COM
plete showing of full sheets Of 100.
Estimates of profit to the department
through Philatedic agency sales range
between $4,O00,000 and $5,00O,000 for
the series.
Criticism of the plan developed from
the moment Of its announcement. 1t
was pointed out that there no longer
could be any denial of its political in
tent. The substitution of Thomas
Jefferson for George Washington on
the 3-cent value could have no other
Interpretation. Designation of Calvin
Coolidge for the $5 denomination was
regarded by some critics as "a de-
Gberate affront, arranged by the de-
vice of including two non-Presidents
In the lower values" of the set.
The New York Times, in its editorial
comment Wednesday, said: Mr. Far
leys idea is apparently to make a
mans position in the list coincide with
the money value of the stamp on
which his efflgy appears. It works out
for the first four Presidents. with
Washington on the penny stamp. John
Adams on the 2-cent stamp. Jefferson
on the 3-cent stamp and Madison on
the Accent stamp. But James Monroe
is fobbed off with an intermediate 4la-
cent stamp, and this throws the rest
Of the succession out Of kilter. Polk,
the eleventh President, Is on the 10
cent stamp and Lincoln, the sixteenth
President, is on the 15-cent stamp.
Chester A. Arthur, the twenty-f1rst
President, is on the 20-cent stamp,
after which the jumps are cents or
more per President.
why Mr.. Farley should put off
James Monroe with fractional 4la-
cent stamp, instead Of giving him the
nice round scent stamp to which CUR
fifth President is entitled, is hard to
see. James Monroe was even more
unanimously elected than Franklin D.
Roosevelt. He gave his name to a
famous American policy. the Monroe
Doctrine. His eight years in office are
known as the Era Of Good Feeling.
"Or doesn't the present administra-
ton like eras Of good feeling?"
The forgotten or neglected"
Presidents to whom Mr. Farley's an
nouncement refers as mot previously
honored with special postage stamp
issues" are: John Adams Q735-
1920, Federalist, member Of the Con-
tinental Congress, signer Of the Dec
laration of Independence, commission
er to France, Minister to Holland,
Minister to England, Vice President,
1789-l797; President, 1797-18O1; John
Quincy Adams u767-184S), Republic
an-Democrat, son Of John Adams;
Minister, successfully, to Holland,
Portugal, Prussia, Russia and Eng
land, member Of the United States
Senate, 18O3-1808; Secretary of
State. 18l7-1855; President, 1926
1929; member Of the House OF
Representatives. 1831-1848; real au-
thor Of the Monroe Doctrine;
Martin Van Buren, N782-1862), Demo-
crat, Senator, 182l-1828; Governor of
New York, 1828-1829: Secretary of
State, 1829-1831; Vice President, 1888
1897; President, 1837-l841; Free Soil
candidate for second term in l848;
William Henry Harrison 1773-184D,
Wing. soldier, delegate to Congress,
1893; Governor of Indiana Territory,
1801-l8l3; defeated the Indians at
Tfppecanoe, 1911, and, as a major
general, the British at the Thames,
1913: member Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, 1817-1818, and of the Sem
ate, 1824-l828; Minister to Colombia,
1828-l829; President for one month in
184l; John Tyler 1790-1862), Demo-
crat, member of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, 1816-1821; Governor of
Virginia, 1825-1827; Senator, 1927
1885; succeeded Harrison as President
and served three years and eleven
months, member Of the Confederate
congress, 1851; James Knox Polk
Q795-lS4e), Democrat, member of the
House OF Representatives, 1825-1s39;
Speaker, 1835-1s3s; Governor of Ten
nessee, 183s-1841; President. 1845-
1919; Millard Fillmore 180O-l874).
STAMPS.