Evening star., 1941-04-27


Requests for copies will be honored
as long as the edition lasts.
Poor Richard Press, 451 North
Western avenue. Chicago, announces
a cachted cover for the Both anni-
verSary of the first use of the tele-
graph In conjunction with aero-
nautics. June II. The occasion re.
ferred to was the sending of a tele-
gram to President Lincoln by T. S.
c. Lowe, stationed in captive ball
loon-the Enterprise near
Washington. Post card inquiries
will be answered promptly.
Many readers have identified the
author of the paragraph beginning:
The Post Office Department, in its
ceaseless labor, pervades every cham
mel of commerce" The hand that
originally penned the words was that
of Joseph Holt, Postmaster General
in 1859 and 1860. He was a native Of
Kentucky, born about 1907. Under
President Lincoln he served as
Secretary of War for a while. His
death occurred August l, 1894.
Robert Sage, writing from Paris
to the Chicago Tribune, reports:
Frances legions of philateliStS are
in open revolt against stamp dealers
and post Office employees. For sew
eral years. the stamp collectors here
have docilely bought the commence
rative issues, surcharged stamps and
other special attractions that have
poured out of the post Office. But at
last they have called halt and are
ganging up against the dealers who
buy up entire issues of current
stamps allegedly with the compile
ity of postal clerks and officials
and place them on sale at several
times their face value
A cacheted cover advertising the
opening of the post office at Fort
Richardson, Alaska, April /, has been
presented to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition by the Anchorage Stamp
Club. "farthest North American
stamp club Mrs. William Mellish,
secretary.
1t has been announced :hat this
years convention of the American
Air Mail Society will be held at
Atlantic City, August IS to II.
The Associated Press correspond
ent at Geneva, Switzerland, reports
that the War Prisoners Bureau of
the International Red Cross lis ca
tering to stamp collectors" Enve-
lopes bearing letters to the bureau
from many different countries are
bound in two-pound packages, TO be
sold to the public. Although the
stamps have no great immediate
value, they furnish a certain inter-
est to amateurs
Sidney R. Esten is the author
of a comprehensive article on Birds
on Stamps" in Stamps Magazine for
April 5.
The stamp section of the Pam
American Union is distributing
gratis copies of an illustrated book
let entitled, Public Health and
Medicine in Stamps of the Amer
icaS," by DR. AristideS A. Moll.
The figure known as THE Genius
of America" atop the dome of the
Capitol, was represented on United
States newspaper stamps OF 1895,
designed and printed by the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing AS
demonstrated by Ernest A. Kehr,
writing in the New York Herald
Tribune for March %, the same SYM
boil had been employed on Georgia
S5 bill produced by the American
Bank Note Co., in 1860.
The stamp editor of The Star will
be the speaker at the annual Walt
Whitman festival at Philadelphia,
Saturday, May 81.
Stamp meetings for the week ara
scheduled as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, 2206 Rhode Island
avenue NE. Guests TO include 1t.
Bert Sheldon, Gerard Ten Eyck
Beeckman and members of the
philatelic study group of the Boys
Club of Washington. Exhibitions
and short addresses.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Capital
Precancel Club, Thomson School,
Twelfth and L streets NV. Exhi-
bition, program and bourse.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School. Program, exhibition and
bourSe.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel 2400
Sixteenth street NV. Bourse.
Closing of nominations for new Off.
GERS.