Evening star., 1939-08-06
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phlatec World Its Interests and PeopRevew of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fa,ccetf.

Miss Earlene White, postmaster of
the Senate at the Capitol, believes
that stamp collecting contributes
toward the elevation of the charac-
ter of the American people.
Addressing meeting of the WASH
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel
Mayf1ower, Wednesday evening, Miss
White declared. mo one can be a
philatelist in this country without
being good citizen. Stamps teach
practical patriotism. They are pic
lures of great personalities and great
events in the experience of the Ma
ton. Beautiful in themselves, they
instruct us in the appreciation OF
our country and its democracy. The
whole world needs more good Amer
leans and that is why I believe in
philately"
Miss White told of her visit to
Budapest last year. Il saw the
tragedy in the faces of the other
women assembled there" she said.
"When a door slammed, the women
of Poland and Czecho- o-Slovakia
thought of their homes perhaps be-
ing bombed. The Italian delegation
was absent-because of sugges-
ton from the Fascist government.
Can you imagine group of Amer
lean women staying home because
some man had suggested that they
ought not to go anywhere they really
wanted to go? We have freedom in
America.
But sometimes I am discouraged
by the way we use our liberty. Pos
sibly we do not understand its worth
and value 1t would help us to de-
serve freedom if we would try to be
a little more civilized, little more
tolerant, little more kindly in our
relations to our neighbors. Stamp
collecting aids in the development of
fellowship and friendliness."
MSS White was introduced by
Mrs. Grace L. MacKnight, who read
a paper on 'Worlen and Philately."
The exhibition of the evening was
provided by Mrs. Catherine L. Man
ming, philatelic curator of the
Smithsonian Institution: Miss Irene
NJ Pistorio, Mrs. Edward B. Martin
and Miss Dorothy Fisk.
Others present included: Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Allen. San Luis Postosi,
Mexico Mrs. Myrtle c. Shaughnessy,
Mrs. Josephine B. Hoppe, Mrs. S. B.
Fisk, Mrs. Madeline c. Nickles, Miss
Doris G. Wilkins, Miss Aubrey Loom
is, Mrs. Ethyl Thompson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alden H. Whitney, Mr.. and
Mrs Morton o. Cooper, Miss Mollie
Lewis, David H. Davenport. Philip
Simms Warren, David D. Caldwell,
DR.. Emil F. Ferdinand, Alvin R.
Meissner, Herman Bocorselski, DR..
M. G. Skinner, Joseph A. Herbert,
Ralph E. Smith, John S. Steele. AL
eXander Halperson and Robert Mac
Knight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin, it was an
nounced, were leaving for the Canal
Zone to attend the first-day sale of
the Panama Canal commemorative,
August Is. They were on board the
United Fruit liner Talamanca, which
sailed from New York yesterday.
Of the heroes of peace to be por-
trayed in the series of stamps re-
Gently authorized by Postmaster
General Farley, the following have
been admitted to the Hall of Fame,
New York University: Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow, Washington Irving, Samuel
F. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, John
James Audubon, Horace Mann, Gill
bert Stuart, James Russell Lowell,
John Greenleaf Whittier, James
Fenimore Cooper, Frances E. Will
lard, Mark Hopkins, Elias Howe,
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain,
Augustus Saint -Gaudens, James Alb
bott Mcneil Whistler and Walt
Whitman.
The statue of Frances Willard, by
Helen Farnsworth Mears, was the
first depicting woman to be ad-
mitted to the Hall of Statuary in
the United States Capitol DR.. Craw-
ford w. Long, whose effgy was Gre
ated by j. Massey Rhind is the only
other person listed for inclusion in
the series now memorialized in the
home of the National Legislature.
William M Stuart, philatelic editor
OF the Washington Post and asso-
ciate editor of the National Stamp
News, will be POSTMASTER at the
convention banquet of the Society
of Philatelic Americans. Lord Balti-
more Hotel, Baltimore, Saturday
evening, August 26
Jacques Kilcher, Seward G. Dob
bins, Ralph F. Holdzkom and DR..
Edward F. Uzzell, all of Atlantic
City, we're prize winners at the Cytra
stamp exhibition at Buenos Aires
in May.
A Museum of Postal Antiquities,
covering the history of the Italian
postal service from the days of the
early Roman Empire, is to be estab-
hshed in Rome and will be ready for
dedication during the Worlds Fair
there in 1912
From the American Legation at
Bucharest comes word to the effect
that a common postage stamp is to
be issued for franking mail in the
states of the Balkan Entente-Ru-
mania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Tur-
key.
Western Samoa is to have set
OF four stamps to mark the 25th
anniversary of New Zealand's con-
troll of the inundated islands. SUBJ
STAMPS.
COMPLETE SET presidential issue. first
DAY, blocks of four; reasonable Box
415-T. Star.
STAMPS-CONS-AUT
BOUGHT and Sold