Evening star., 1941-03-02

/ Id, brown, three peasants regarding
the sun; $50 plus 1.50d, blue me-
mortal chapel. and 2 plus I'd. violet
and gray. memorial arch at Brezje.
The House of Representative has
/ slashed 1912 appropriation for the
| Division of Stamps, stipulating
among other economies a reduction
| in Philatelic Agency personnel and
| the abandonment of the practice Of
| printing airmail stamps in two COL
ors. Senator James M Mead Of
New York. however, has promised q
fight to restore the cut, and collec-
tors interested may communicate
with him.
Representative Charles A. Plum
ley, a practicing philatelist of dis
tinction as well as sole spokesman
for the Green Mountain State in
the lower branch of the National
Legislature, is not satisfied with the
design for the Scent Vermont
sesqui centennial commemorative
scheduled for release ct Montpelier
on Tuesday
The view of the Capitol reproduced
on the stamp. according to Mr.
Plumley, makes "one of the most
notably beautiful buildings in the
world" look like "a second-rate hotel
on the top of Mount Washington in
a hurricane" 1t would seem. he
says. that the picture was made by
"a tourist tearing through town at
80 miles an hour"
Mr. Plumley adds to his complaint
the unqualified opinion that the
result is horrible" He hkens the
shield adorned with stars to "a po-
liceman's badge" protests against
"the Chinese naples in the front
yard" and altogether deplores "the
cannon pointing nowhere The
Vermont delefation in Congress, he
insists. so far as I can discover, was
not consulted by the Post Office De-
partment.
A photograph supplied by the Ma
tional Geographic Society was used
in the design. Alvin r. Meissner
made the approved sketch and Carl
T. Arldt and James T. Vail were the
engraverS. Printers in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing praised
the finished composition because. as
they explained. 1T fills the whole
space harmoniously." The plate
numbers announced are 22706 and
22707.
United States revenue stamps OF
the series 1917-1933. values. /. 2. 4,
20 and 25s rose pink, SO violet, 81
yellow brown and S5 dark blue.
have been overprinted Series 19407
in black.
A series of 10 carmine documen-
teries similarly marked show por-
traits of former Secretaries of the
Treasury: 1c, Alexander Hamilton;
&c. Oliver Wolcott: &c, Samuel Dex-
ter: SC. George w. Campbell; &c,
Alexander J. Dallas: 10c. William H.
Crawford: Csc, Samuel D. Ingham;
SOC, William j. Duane; 81. Levi H.
Woodbury., and So, Thomas Ewing
The proposed new airmail route to
Alaska would include Chicago, Min
neapolis, Fargo, Regina, Edmonton,
Whitehorse. and Fairbanks. Exist
ing lines go to San Francisco and
Seattle, Ketchikan, Juneau, White
horse, Fairbanks. Bethel and Nome.
Members of the National Feder-
alton of Stamp Clubs are voting on
a proposal offered by Edwin E.
Elkins, a nonresident member of
the Washington Philatelic Society,
to the effect that the Post Office
Department be asked to provide new
cancelling dies showing patriotic de-
signs as a contribution to the cam
paign for national defense.
Nominations for the award of the
Michael l.. Eidsness Memorial Plate
for 1910 are being received by Col.
Spencer Cosby, former District
Commissioner, 2025 @ street NV;
A. E. Geldhof. stamp editor, WASH
ington Times Herald, and Philip
Simms Warren, treasurer. Washing
ton Philatelic Society, 1702 Hobart