Evening star., 1941-03-09

was responsible were: The Pam
American series of 1901, the regular
issues of 1901 and 1902, and the John
Adams postal card.
Bulgaria has issued a IL stamp,
bearing a portrait OF Gutenberg,
for the fifth centenary of the in
vention Of printing, and a 2L stamp,
showing a representation Of Kar-
astoyanoff, for the first centenary
of the first press within the boun-
diaries of the Bulgarian state. The
color of the former is green; OF the
latter, red brown.
Presidents Benjamin Harrison,
William Mckinley, Theodore Roose-
Velt. William Howard Taft. Woodrow
Wilson, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert
Hoover authorized total of ia
commemorative stamps of one sort
or another.
Then came their incumbent sue
cessor, who ordered the printing Of
129 different adhesive postal labels
of a commemorative character in
eight years.
What will happen in the next two
or three terms is any mans guess.
Bi-color stamps are alleged to cost
S119 a thousand. Part of this cost
presumably is due to waste resulting
from the difficulties involved in ad-
justing one plate to another.
The late Representative William
D. Byron of Maryland. killed in the
crash of a regular passenger plane
near Atlanta, had accepted an lnvl-
tation to open the second annual
Silver Spring Hobby Show, Silver
Spring Armory, March 26-29.
Harry A. Bradley, president Of the
Dubuque Philatelic Society, Du-
buoue, Iowa, will sponsor a cachet
for the organizations second annual
exhibition and banquet, April l9.
Send stamped. addressed envelopes
with 5 cents for each marking
wanted Address 655 Stewart street,
Dubuque.
If the Government seriously at
tempts to punish collectors who have
the hardihood to collect Cancelled
wine tax stamps, bigger Federal
penitentiaries will be needed. To
the average citizen the notion that
some dreadful variety of treason is
involved in such a violation of ar
bitrary regulations does not have
any logical appeal 1t is just about
as unreasonable as the bureaucratic
extravagances of Communist Russia
and NaZi Germany.
The matter may not be worth
test case, but it would be Interest,"
ing to watch the result Of an at
tempt to prosecute a philatelist
whose only fault was that of saw
ing wine tax labels for which the
Government already had been paid
all that it properly could claim.
Alison Jackson. writing in the
Kenmore Kollector for December.
says: This war is only a passing
incident in the history Of the British
Empire
Chester Lloyd Jones. professor of
economics and political science, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, has discussed
the postal services of Guatemala in
his book Guatemala, Past and
Present" issued by the University Of
Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MINI.
Philatelic Agency sales for Febru-
ary amounted to S91086.09.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club. 22O6 Rhode Is
land avenue NE. Business meeting.
Each member asked TO bring a lot
OF stamps to be sold at auction.
Philatelic question bee.
Tomorrow evening at 8:l5-WaSh-
ington Stamp Club of the Air, tSa-
ton VOL. Philatelic romance and
current news.
Tuesday evening at 8-CoIlectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV. Pro-
gram. exhibition and bourse.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel 2400
Sixteenth street NV. Quarterly
business meeting for members only.
Thursday evening at - East
Washington Stamp Club, Eastern
High School, East Capitol street.