Evening star., 1940-02-18
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatelc World Its Interests and Peope-Revev
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo FasUceff.

A flood of stamps to celebrate the
45Oth anniversary of the discovery
Of America by Christopher Colum-
bus in indicated for 1912. The Uni
versal Postal Congress at Buenos
Aires, it seems, was persuaded to
approve plans for such commemora-
ton of the achievement of the great
navigator who "did not know where
he was going when he left, did not
know who're he was when he arrived
and continued throughout the re-
mainder of his life to deny that he
had been where he had BEEN"
AL Burns, editor OF Weekly Phila-
telic Gossip, declares: '"To our way
of thinking there must be more sta
bility to the value of stamps in the
future If we are to bring the proper
number of devotees to our hobby
each year. We cannot stand still in
this respect. We must either move
forward or backward"
The National Parks stamps of
the Belgian Congo, issued in 1888,
reproduced series of photographs
taken by M. de Witte, chief of the
geological and genealogical section
of the Belgian Congo Mission, dur
ing scientific tour.
Postmasters who permitted irregu-
lar release Of the 3-cent Emerson
and scent Louisa May Alcott
stamps in violation of department
regulations are said to have had
their disobedience noted on their Of
fetal service records.
Women artists designed the 1923
pictorial stamps of Irak. Miss Edith
Cheesman was responsible for the
compositions of the "a, l, and 6
annas denominations and Mrs. G.. C..
Garbett for the balance of the set.
The engraving and printing were
done by Bradbury, Wilkinson e. Co.
Carter Glass, jr., past president
Of the American Philatelic Society,
will take an active part in the cele-
bration of the Postage Stamp Cen
tenary in May.
President Roosevelt has received q
f1rst-day cover from Portland, Me-,
almost 2 feet long. 1t contains a
rare engraving of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, full sheets of the'Long-
fellow stamps and other material
and is franked with multiple copies
OF the LongfelloW issue.
Senator Champ Clark of Missouri
Is the sponsor of bill to ban air
mail flights to Bermuda as long as
British censorship of American let
ters to Europe is permitted there.
DR.. Lothrop Stoddard, member
of the Washington Philatelic So
ciety, has returned to the United
States after many months of travel
In war-torn Europe He has been
writing for the North American
Newspaper Alliance, and his articles
have appeared in The Star.
New plate numbers have been
announced as follows: &c airmaiI,
center, 22517-22520; 1c, Horace
Mann, 22521-22523: &c, Mark Hop
kins, 22524-22526; Sc, Charles Eliot,
22527-22529; Sc, Frances E. Willard,
22530-22532; 10c, Booker T. Wash
ington, 22533-22535; &c, airmail, CEN
ter, 22536-22539; 10c, postal savings,
22540-2254f; Csc, postal savings,
22542-22543; SOC, postal savings,
22544; 81, postal savings. 22545; lc,
John James Audubon, 22546-22548;
&c, DR.. Crawford Long, 22549- -22551;
Sc, Luther Burbank, 22552-22554; Sc,
DR.. Walter Reed, 22555-22557; 10c,
Jane Addams, 22558-22560.
Lewis A. Barnard, Pulaski, N. Y,
will sponsor a cachet for the 18th
anniversary of the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln, April Is. The
design includes a drawing of the
facade of Ford's Theater, where the
President was shot by J. Wilkes
Booth. Send standard-size, self
addressed and stamped envelopes,
ready to 60, with service fee of
cent for each marking wanted.
The electric light stamp of 1929
was in no proper sense of the word
a commemorative for Thomas A.
Edison. 1t was issued as the result
OF campaign staged by a publicity
representative for the lamp manu-
featuring industry-a press agent
who is alleged to have received a
handsome fee for persuading the
Post Once Department to lend its
facilities to his promotion purposes.
Thus stigmatized, it was criticized
at the time of its release and is sus-
pect still. Mr.. Edison, the greatest
OF American inventors, deserves a
place IN the gallery of Heroes of
Peace" in recognition of his own
essential merit and not because of
the commercial exploitation of his
genius.
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York,
announce the publication of a book
entitled 80 You're Collecting
Stamps" by Mannel Hahn, a regu-
lar contributor to Mekeels Weekly
Stamp News.
It Is denied that the postmaster
1t Harrisburg, Pa, permitted irregu-
lar advance sale of the Scent Emer.
son but cancellations were OBJ
tanned in that city on January 30.
Other towns listed by the National
Stamp News as being involved in
prerelease irregularities are Rich
field, Utah; Ell Dorado, Ark; Spring.
field, Tenn; Woodsville, N. H.; Pen
sacola, Fla; Hammond, Ind; Bald
WSS<ville, N. Y; Salt Lake City.
Utah; Rockville, Md; Summerville,
s. c.; Sand Springs, Okla; Des
Moines, Iowa; Mason, Mich; Lords
burg, N. Mex; Tutwiler, Miss, and
New York City.
The scent Alcott stamp was
placed on sale at Des Moines Feb
= ruary 1 and at New York February
, 8, the 10-cent Marx Twain COM
memorative at Fort Fairfield, Me:
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