Evening star., 1940-01-21
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests Peope-Revew of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fasvceff.


Of the centenary of the postage
stamp during the first week Of May
will include exhibitions at the Ma
tional Museum, the Library of Con-
gress, the Pan-American Union, the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
the Post Office Department and
elsewhere; several national radio
broadcasts and one international
network program embracing New
York, Hollywood, Washington and
London; a philatelic fair with bourse,
auction and other features; an essay
contest with nine prizes for win
ners, a philatelic writer's breakfast
and a centennial banquet.
David D. Caldwell, chairman of
the Postage Stamp Centenary Com
mittee of the Washington Philatelic
Society, has announced that "every
effort will be made to make the
celebration all inclusive. The CO.
operation of all philatelic organiza-
tions and that of aff1liated bodies
Is invited. 1t is our hope to pro-
vide that the entire celebration may
be memorable for citizens of all
classes and conditions. The pro-
gram has been designed to afford
entertainment and instruction for
the whole world. It is our wish to
dramatize as best we may the i'm
portance of fellowship and harmony
among nations and among indi-
viduals as represented by the uni
versal postal system and by the
philatelic hobby which has devel-
oped during the past 100 years from
the invention and wide use Of the
adhesive postage stamp"
Associated with the committee in
carrying the celebration to sue
cessful conclusion will be the Ameri-
can Philatelic Society, Rollin E.
Flower of Buffalo, president, and
the National Federation of Stamp
Clubs, Harry l.. Lindquist of New
York, president.
The centennial observance will be-
gin on Thursday, May 2, with regis
tration at the Hotel Mayf1ower, CEN
tenary headquarters, and prelimi-
nary meetings throughout the day.
At o'clock in the evening there
will be a reception and the formal
opening of the centenary exhibition
OF rare stamps and covers at the
National Museum.
From Friday morning at II o'clock
through Sunday evening, May to
8, the philateic fair will be open
for business at the Hotel Mayf1ower.
Details of plans for the bourse, auc-
ton and other features will be an
nounced shortly.
On Friday evening, May 3, at 8
O'Clock Alvin w. Hall, director, will
receive visitors and friends at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
conducting them through the post
age stamp division. Later, after the
tour OF inspection has been COM
pleted. there will be a centennial
meeting in the bureau auditorium,
where H. M. Southgate, president
OF the Bureau Issues Association,
has been invited to speak.
Postal officials are to welcome
guests to the exhibition room of the
Post Office Department on Saturday
morning, May 4, at 10:30, and Archi-
bald MacLeish, Librarian of Con-
gress, will open the centenary ex-
hibltion of philatelic literature, es-
says and proofs in the gallery of
the Library on Saturday afternoon,
May 4, at 8. Meanwhile at o'clock
on the same day at the Hotel May
flower special auction of domestic
and foreign stamps and covers is
scheduled.
The centenary banquet will be
held at the Maydower on Saturday
evening, May 4, at Z. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt has been asked
to deliver the principal address.
Other important Government off,
cials have been invited to attend.
A centennial symposium will be
feature of the philatelic writer's
breakfast at the Hotel Mayflower
Sunday morning, May 5, at 10
O'Clock. The Smithsonian Institu-
tion World Is Yours" program will
=. be broadcast at 4::30 in the after
noon and the international program,
beginning in New York, then mov-
Ing to Hollywood and to Washing
ton, closing from London, between
8 and 9 in the evening. King George
vi, it is hoped, will respond to
President Roosevelt, over the air
waves.
Philip Simns Warren is treasurer
OF the Postage Stamp Centenary
Committee, with Mrs. Grace L. Mac
Knight, assisted by Miss Dorothy R.
Fisk, as recording secretary and
= historian. DR.. Prichard Won David
will be travelling representative, and
Horace B. Cooke has been asked to
serve as photographer. Other men,
bers of the committee and the sub
committees over which they will pre-
side are DR.. Ellis Haworth, exhibi-
ton; John L. Steele, jr, banquet;
Edward B. Martin, philatelic fair:
John R. Ewell, stamp club co-opera-
ton and auction; Albert F. Kunze,
: radio and Pan-American Union CO.
operation: Morton o. Cooper, audit;
Col. Charles S. Hamilton and Capt.
Wilbur r. Van Auken, Army and
Navy; Rear Admiral c. H. T.
Lowndes and Col Spencer Cosby, re-,
ception; Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt,
Government co-operation; David H.
Davenport, printed program and
catalogue; Miss Irene M. Pistorio,
National Committee; DR.. Albert c.
Schwarting and DR.. Emil F.. Ferdi-
nand, International Committee; DR..
T. S. Palmer, essay contest; Alvin
r. Meissner, cachet and poster;
Alden H. Whitney, hospitality;
Mrs. Catharine L. Manning, ladies;
H. M. Southgate, bureau issues;
Ralph E. Smith, pre-cancel, and j.
o. Peavey, airmail.
Patrons invited to contribute to
she success of the celebration are
President Roosevelt, Postmaster
General James A. Farley, Secretary