Evening star., 1941-09-21

oClOUCl l dllu Wdo SSIlCQI4CQ w SOll-
tinue until all inhabitants are reg
istered and complete information Sc
cured The IF value pictures GEN.
Sus taker holding aloft a census form
with a map of Manchukuo in yellow
as a background. The 4f value
shows the hand of the citizen pass
ing his questionnaire over to the
census taker and at the bottom ap-
pears the statement: "Give straight
forward information. The census is
the cornerstone of the state"
"Manchukuo was set up by the
Japanese in 1882. 1t is constituted of
three provinces of Manchuria-Eeil-
ungkiang, Kirin and Shenking-to
which later was added Jehol. Man.
churia is a fertile farming region,
the chief crops being soybeans,
wheat, corn and rice. There also are
extensive deposits of coal, iron, gold,
silver, lead and cement and shale
oil The complete census of this
district should prove of great in
terest, particularly to the Japanese"
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ly postmarked on the U. S. S. Greer
are to be congratulated If not envied.
The postal paper of Bulgaria is
manufactured at the National Print
ing Works, Sofia.
Philip H. Ward, jr., of Philadel-
phia has expressed the opinion that
the war "in the long run" will help
rather than hurt" stamp collecting.
Paul F. Berdanier, jr., is the ed
itor of a pamphlet, Designs for
U S. Stamps: Opinions by II of
the Country's Leading Design Au-
thorities, reprinted from the Orange
Book of the Stamp Specialist by
H. L. Lindquist, West Forty-sixth
street, New York. The thesis of the
collaborators is THE stamps of
the United States should rank in
beauty with the best in the world"
When the sponsors of the National
Stamp Conference, held in Washing
ton in 1897, expressed the same con-
viction certain critics complained
that they were trying to dictate to
the Government"
Sir Nicholas Waterhouse of Lon
don assembled the finest collection
of stamps of the United States ever
achieved by a American.
The first catalogue of postage
stamps for collectors was published
by Alfred Poliquet, French civil
servant, December 81, 1861.
Mrs. Dorothy Wilson is leaving for
Cuba and Maj. and Mrs. Harry
Gantz for San Francisco and the
Orient. All are well known in local
stamp collecting circles.
The engraver of the famous
William Mulready envelopes of
Great Britain, 1840, was John
Thompson, craftsman of distinc-
tion who had worked for the Bank
of England.
According to the Philatehc Mag
azine of London: "In 1914 Malta
was popular country, but COM
mited philatelic suicide between
1922 and 1926 by its numerous
emissions"
The morie stamps of British Hon.
duras (A1D-overprinted in violet
were marked in that manner so they
might be identified "if seized by an
enemy" eg., the Germans. They
were used from 1915 until the sup
ply was exhausted.
An alleged stamp dealer at Dune
din, New Zealand, is reported to
have been prosecuted no less than
10 times for applying used postage
adhesives to packages addressed
to the United States.
Warren G. Harding and Nikolai
Lenin had little in common, but
the memorial stamp issued for the
President of the United States in
September, 1928 was the inspiration
of the four mourning stamps brought
out for the BolShevisk dictator of
Russia on the day of his funeral
January 27, 1924. There were three
different printings of each of the
Soviet labels-3, 6, II and 20 kopeks.
British philatelic periodicals credit
Ann Toomey of Dallas with the
design for the Texas centenary
commemorative of 1886.
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At the Tipex exhibition, New
York, 1886, a philatelic pho
tographer took a picture of Fred
j. Melville, Ralph A. Barry and
Michael L. Eidsness, jr., in a group.
Each at the time was celebrated
as a regular and valued contributor
to the philatelic press. Now, only
five years later, all three are dead.
Their places remain unf1lled-and
stamp collecting is the poorer for
the circumstance.
Morris S. Lichtenstein, writing in
Mekeel's weekly Stamp News for
September Is, charges: "The Post
Office Department is emitting new
airmail issue that copies foreign
model with almost slavish exacti-
tude" The 1910 airpost series of
Bulgaria, it is alleged, furnished
the pattern for the American labels.
Tt has been announced that Ill
sacks of mail were lost in the S. S.
Steel Seafarer, sunk in the Red Sea.
What makes stamps valuable?
One answer may be found in the
story of an elderly lady of Birstall
in England who asked a kindly
neighbor to help her to "tidy up
her house. The neighbor found In
| the attic "a pan full OF old Vic