Evening star., 1941-02-09

Ille FdI-HJlltIlCdl OlllOIl DullO4llS,
Seventeenth street NV, April to
10. The scope of the show will be
limited to the postal emissions of
the nations of the Western Hemi-
sphere. but within that boundary
completeness is desired and antici-
pated.
Alden H. Whitney is chairman of
the Arrangements Committee. Those
serving with him include: John R.
Ewell, representing the Washing
ton Philatelic Society; C. H.
Vaughan. Collectors Club Of Wash
ineton: Lawrence w. Murphy
Woodbridge Stamp Club: Ralph E.
Smith, Capital Precancel Club, and
J. O. Peavey, Washington Airmail
Society.
Collectors interested to cooperate
are invited to communicate with Mr..
Whitney, 1402 Twelfth street NV.
Mrs. Edward B. Martin, leaving
Washington to make her home with
her brother in New Jersey, has
given up editorial direction of the
monthly bulletin of the Collectors
Club
According to Ben Hamilton. jr.,
writing in Weekly Philatelic Cos
sip, % different alphabetS are rep
resented in stamp designs repro
duced in Scott's Standard Cata-
logue.
Reconstruction enterprises in
Finland are being financed in part
by the sale of Red Cross stamps Of
four different denominations and
designs. The Official list includes
so plus 5p. green and red. brick
LAYER at work: It's plus 15D. brown
an red. farmer plowing; Pts plus
25p, red brown and red, mother and
child with burning ruins in back
ground: $50 plus 35p. dark blue
and red, national flag of Finland.
The phrase, 1--WE hold a vaster
empire than has BEEN" carried on
the Canadian map stamp of 1893,
is Quoted from "A Song Of Empire" )"
by Sir Lewis Morris.
Most of the fraudulent Heliqo-
land stamps. which still are cur
rent in the philatelic market, were
sold If not actually manufactured
by a certain Julius Goldner Of
Hamburg. Germany. who ran one
of the largest wholesale houses in
Europe" He probably got possess
sion of the original plates by more
or less legitimate purchase. What
happened subsequently was crime
for which innocent collectors con-
tinue to pay the price.
The famous st. Louis bear locals
are reproduced in a set of poster
labels for the second annual ex-
hibition of the Ozark Mountain
Stamp Club, Art Museum Building,
Springfield, Mo, February % to
March 2, inclusive.
The Vermont stamp-for the only
State which never has compromised
its fundamental Republicanism-
will be issued on March 4 regard
less of protests.
William H. Crowley. president of
Hamilton College, is leading a drive
for stamp in homage to Elihu
Root. a famous statesman of those
horrid "horse and buggy days"
when only few hundred thousand
men were out of work and wars
were mere skirmishes.
Stamps Magazine for February s
contains an announcement of "a
cooperative effort to improve the
artistic quality of United States
stamps Paul F. Berdanier, ir., art
director of the J. Walter Thomp-
son Corp. and secretary of the Col
lectors' Club of New York, it is ex-
planned, has approached a selected
group of artists to submit Sug-
gestions for stamp designs that
will be acceptable" to the Post Office
Department. Those joining in the
enterprise are listed as: w. A.
Dwiggins, photographer, designer of
type faces, books and bindings and
author of treatise on reform of
currency and stamp designs: Cla-
renee P. Hornung, photographer, de-
Slgner of books and trade marks;
Gordon Grant, etcher of marine
subjects; Robert Fawcett, illustrator
and designer for magazines and
newspapers; Gustave Jensen, de-
signer of types and books; Fred G.
Cooper, magazine illustrator, de-
signer OF types and trade marks;
Stanley w. Crane, painter, designer
of posters; Warren Chappell, il
illustrator of books, designer of types;
Sam Marsh, advertising designer;
Lucian Bernhart, designer of types
and posters, and Walter Dorwin
league, industrial designer.
"All of these artists" says Stamps,
"are now preparing sketches on sub
jects which have been selected from
a list presented to them. This list
the proposed new series
OF envelope stamps, a series of air
mail stamps, various commemora-
tiveS, a stamp in honor of the Boy
Scouts of America, another to mark
an anniversary in the history of
the pharmaceutical industry, sew
eral additional famous Americans
Cheroes of peace, a series COM
memorating the American Indian
and another of famous buildings.
"1n keeping with the times. at
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