Evening star., 1938-04-03


interest centers chiefly on the 4l2c
to which the head of James Monroe
the fifth President, is at present as.
signed. Critical collectors have called
the Post Office Departments atten-
ton to the fact that the placing oil
Monroe on the 4i2c automatically re-
suits in the sixth President, John
Quincy Adams, appearing on the Sc
the seventh President on the &c. ano
so on through the subsequent de-
nominations in such way that the
22d President, Cleveland, appears on
the 21c."
Referring to the 18th President
hitherto neglected. in the philat-
elic gallery, but presumably des-
tined to be honored in the new 12c
issue, Linns Weekly Stamp News
remarks: Nothing of outstanding i'm
portance can be attributed to Fill
more"
DR.. Willis Mason West, in his
American History and Government"
describes the third President, sched-
uled for the &c stamp, as follows
"Jefferson's character is not to be
painted by bold strokes-only by deli
cate pencilings. BY hostile critics,
these fine shadings were naturally
misunderstood to imply weakness or
hypocrisy. He was an intellectual
ariStocrat, but the prophet of de-
mocracy; theorist of widest specu-
lations, but an astute, practical poll
tician upon all immediate problems;
a shy man, averse to public speaking
or public appearances, but a popular
dictator"
A. w. Bloss, stamp editor of the
Los Angeles Times, has compiled this
list of American citizens honored in
the postage stamp designs of foreign
countries: Washington, Brazil, 1909;
DR.. Charles J. Finlay, Cuba, 1884;
Archer Harman. railroad builder,
Ecuador, 1908; Washington, France,
1927; Rutherford B. Hayes, Paraguay,
1928; Washington and Thomas Paine,
1882 and 1888; Lindbergh,
Spain, 1880; Carrie Chapman Gait
and Jane Addams, Turkey, 1885, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Guatemala,
1898.
The campaign for stamp in men,
ory of Will Rogers, cowboy philoso-
pher, continues to gain strength. Col
lectors interested are invited to ad-
dress Postmaster General Farley and
the members of the Oklahoma delega-
ton in Congress
Plans are being developed for a
national stamp exhibition at Phila-
delphia, June 81 to 26, inclusive. The
Associated Stamp Clubs of South
eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware
will be the sponsors.
Promoters of the Northwest Terri
tory celebration, Marietta, Ohio want
at least one more commemorative to
advertise their enterprise. The new
stamp, as they regard it, would afford
postal recognition for "the establish.
ment of the first American civil gov
ernment west of the Thirteen Original
States"
1t has been suggested to Mr.. Farley
that the proposed World Poultry Con-
gress stamps should show an incubator
and an eggnog. Also, that one of the
series should be dedicated to explain
ing the answer to the classic question:
why does q chicken cross the road?"
The Department of Commerce has
been notified that the government of
Guatemala will bring out six stamps
for the First Central American and
Panama Philatenc Exposition, Guate-
mala City, next November. National
seals of Costa Rica, Honduras, Mica
ragua, Salvador, Panama and Guate-
mala will be reproduced in the designs.
Mrs. Ray Brooks Ramsdell, mu-
sician and music critic, who died
March 10, was an enthusiastic stamp
collector. Even when, because of ad-
vanced age, her eyesight failed, she
did not abandon her philatelic hobby
Sweden will pay philatelic homage to
a remarkable individual in a sore New
Sweden commemorative to be issued
this week. He is Johan Prinz, cav
airy officer who was governor of
Swedens first colony in the New World
and who is alleged to have been Of
brave size, weighing over 400 pounds. I"
His eye was "as cold as an icicle," !"
his nose seemed to have been pounded