Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-22

yet at least one dealer has advertised
full sets of all four positions of both
plates of all IS items Cancelled on
first days at appropriate first-day
post Offices"
Willard Otis Wylie, editor emeri-
tus of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News
and newly-named dean of American
philatelic writer's, is an honorary
member of the Washington Phil
atelic Society. He was awarded
an engraved silver plate at the
Fourth American Philatelic Con-
gress, Hartford, 1898.
Hans Lagerloef, collector Of rare
postage stamps, has been appointed
honorary colonel of the 7th Regi-
ment Of the New York National
Guard.
Mrs. Eugene Klein of Philadelphia
and Mrs. Henry A. Diament of New
York and st. Louis have been named
honorary chairmen of the 1941
Atex exhibition at Atlantic City,
March $3.50.
When the John Greenleaf Whit
tier stamp went on sale no one
bothered to remember that he had
spent the best years of his life
campaigning against chattel slavery.
His fame now rests upon his poems
about nature and such unpretending
ballads as THE Barefoot Boy"
According to the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, ''the postmaster at Marsh
field, Wis, yearned for more Christ
mas postal receipts, so the Post
Office Department has approved his
ingenious scheme for changing the
towns name to North Pole. This
opens a prolific field for postmas-
ters' profits, and if the department.
is going to be complacent about it,
the possibilities are unlimited.
why couldn't some cagy stamp
vendor virtually corner next sea-
sons New Year cards by remaining
his town 1e41? Marriage announce
ments now come from every city
and hamlet, but such an alluring
postmark as Wedding Bells, w. Va,
would bring them in bundles for
stamping and mailing. Birth an
nouncements would become the
speciality of a town rechristened
Stork, Pa. And so on, far through
the Postal Guide.
'By consenting to the Wisconsin
change the Post Office Department
may have let itself in for something.
But no one can say the idea isn't
slick"
There are Christmas islands in the
Indian and Pacific Oceans and in
the Malay Peninsula.
Miss Leila Livingston Morse,
granddaughter of Samuel F. B.
Morse, inventor of the telegraph,
was visitor in Washington last
week. She called at the White
House to present to President Roose-
welt first edition. book of Western
Union Telegraph Co. stamps and at
the Library of Congress to consult
with DR.. Archibald MacLeish, librar-
ian, and DR.. Emil F. Ferdinand,
philatelic curator.
Christmas greetings are acknowl-
edged from: Harry L. Lindquist,
Mrs. Eveleen w. Severn, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Lewis, Mrs. Catherine
L. Manning, Mrs. Grace L. Mac
Knight, Gerard Ten Eyck Beck
man, John M. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Farley, Fred E. Farnham,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Betron and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Rollin E.
Flower, Mr.. and Mrs. Max G. Johl,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F. Dunkhorst,
E. Tudor Gross, Chester L. Lank-
ford, DR.. and Mrs. Prichard Won
David and son, Miss Elsie Louise
Holtgreve, Jack Garrett, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. E. Elkins, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Klein and daughter, A. M.
Davis, and other philatelic friends.
The only stamp meeting of the
week is that of the Washington
Stamp Club of the Air, Station
VOL, tomorrow evening at 8:15.
A Christmas story concerning st.
Elizabeth Of Hungary will be
featured.