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street NV. The engraved silver
trophy is given annually in recog-
milton Of helpful service to philately.
Those previously honored include:
Eugene Klein. president. American
Philatelc Congress; the late H M.
Southgate. founder of the Bureau
Issues Association. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh NJ. Clark, editors Of the Scott
series of catalogues and albums.
Capt. Otho Larkin Rogers, U. s.
M. c.. former philatelic agent, sends
cordial greetings TO all friends. He
is with the lst Marine Brigade,
Fleet Marine Force, at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba.
The poet and musician Sidney
Lanier may be added TO the list Of
Heroes of Peace. He was born at
Macon. Ga, February 8, 1S42, and
died at Lynn, N. c.. September 7,
1881. Educated at Oglethorpe Uni
versity, he served in the Confeder-
ate Army during the Civil War, was
captured and spent four months in
prison at Point Lookout, Md. There
after he passed through every sort
of tragic experience" Yet music
and poetry sustained him through
dark raven days" and he wrote
half a dozen truly great poems, in
cluding The Marshes of Glynn." a
guide to Florida: four historical
books for boys based on medieval
chronicles; two volumes of studies
of Shakespeare and his forerunners;
an analysis of the English Novel
and-his masterwork in prose-"The
Science of English Verse" as well
as a novel, "Tiger-Lilies essays on
Music and Poetry" and letters
posthumously published. At the
close of his brief life he was playing
in the Peabody Orchestra and lee
turing at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, Baltimore. He said of his ca
reer that pretty much the whole"
of it has been merely not dying"
BY suffering and through the dis
cipline of pain he earned an i'm
mortality that might be confirmed
IN stamp bearing his portrait-if
the Government happened to care
enough about such valiant indi-
vidualism.
Collectors are cautioned not TO
soak the stamps of the Netherlands
East Indies They are printed in
fugitive inks and cannot be wet
without damage. Ditto the early is
sues of Russia.
German bombers wrecked the
building occupied by Harmer. Rookie
& Co., stamp dealers, London. The
vault in which philatelc property Of
great value was stored could not be
reached for weeks after the blitz, but
when at last 1t was opened its con.
tents were found undamaged
One of the horrors of war" cur.
rently disturbing Great Britain is a
shortage of paper. Linn's Weekly
Stamp News hints that many
philatehc treasures in the form Of
old letters" are going into the pulp
watts, more or less needleSsly.
Alden H Whitney has been named
chairman of the Stamp Committee
for the second Silver Spring hobby
show, March 26 to 90. Collectors in
the neighborhood of Silver Spring
desiring to exhibit are asked to
communicate with him at 402
Twelfth street NV.
A set of four advance poster labels
has been prepared for the 47th an
nual convention of the Society Of
Philatelic Americans Samples may
be had from Jacob Bressler. 833
South Fiftv-eighth street, Philadel-
phia. or Bert Powell. 300 South
Green street, Chicago. Send
stamped. self addressed envelope
with request.
Weeks Stamp Shop has removed
to 1410 H street NV.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8:15-Wash-
ington Stamp Club Of the Air,
Station VOL. Philatelic romance
and comment.
Tuesday evening at 3-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV. Pro-
gram, exhibition and bourse.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
lngton Philatelic Society, Hotel 2400
Sixteenth street NV. Philatelic in
formation contest.
Thursday evening at 8-East
Washington Stamp Club, Eastern
High School, East Capitol street.