Evening star., 1941-08-31
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and Peope-Revew of
the Stamp Press-Lst of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Fdlcceff.

Washington stamp collectors at
tending the American Philatelic So
ciety convention in Baltimore in
cluded Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
Mrs. Grace L. MacKnight, David
D. Caldwell, DR.. Emil Ferdinand
and Philip Simms Warren.
The inscription "Ge. o. T." on the
stamps of Haiti signifies General
Oreste Zamor," President of the
black republic from February to
November 7, 1914. He -r.s expelled
from Office by revolutionarieS and
on July 26, 1915, murdered in prison,
His portrait adorns an adhesive
label (A-39 issued irregularly in the
year of his death.
Fred w. Green of Cleveland has
resurrected clipping from the ODD
Fellows Family Companion, New
York, July 3, 1847, which reads as
follows: The Post Office Depart
ment has got up some neat postage
stamps, for the accommodation OF
those who desire to prepay their
letters. To such they will doubtless
prove great convenience as a letter
with one of these stamps on 1t may
be deposited in the Office at any
hour, day or night, in the same man.
ner as a letter on which the postage
Is not prepaid. The stamps for 10
cents will be the head of Washing
ton, color black The cent stamps
will be color brown and will repre-
sent the head of Franklin"
The September number of the War
Cover Philatelist, edited and pub
lished by Deli Norona, Moundsvllle,
w. Va, contains a check list OF
United States naval vessels having
post offices.
Harry L. Lindquist, writing in
Stamps Magazine for August 16, re-
marks: lit seems to be human ma
ture to neglect present opportunities
while bemoaning lost ones, and the
man with a good prophetic eye to
the future is, of course, in the rar-
tiles class. This applies to stamp
collecting as to all other things.
When it is too late we wonder why
we didn't see what is now all too
obvious"
Frederick E. Poor, one OF the en-
eineers who perfected the post office
cancellation machines now in stand
ard use, died at Darien, Conn, Au-
gust 6. He was only SO years of age
and had spent his life in the busl-
ness of improving postal markings.
A graduate of Massachusetts, 1nsti-
tute of Technology, he was employed
by the Universal Stamping Machine
Co. and then for two decades by the
Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Co.
A poster label showing a Carl
eature of Hitler and the slogan,
"Help Lick I'M" has been prepared
for circulation where it will do the
most good. Copies at two cents
each may be had from the Poster
Stamp Publishing Co., 2445 South
Damen avenue, Chicago. Enclose
self-addressed stamped envelope.
DR.. Clarence Herman OF Chicago
won the grand award at the Society
of Philatelic Americans exhibition,
Philadelphia. Other winners IN
cluded: Rev Mr.. William H. Tower,
Edward Stern, George Scudder, Jack
J. Domar, F. E. WoloSeWlck, DR., NJ
T.. Unanski, A. A. Wasserscheld,
Rudolph Novy, Louise S. Davis, F.
Bayard Culley, Robert F. Brinton,
Tilghman K. Houseman, Mortimer
De Groot, George F. Stackhouse, jr-;
Wilson P. Smith, j. T. Dalcher,
Charles F. carp, Allen Cremer,
W. F. Knauer, Frank E. Lawrence,
Harry M. Konwiser, Jacques Kilcher,
Vincent DomansN, jr,; DR.. E. H.
Iewandowski and Felix Drummer.
3. w. Kunler, Kensington, Md,
writes: "On September 27, 1889,
sent a prepared cover (self address,
sd) to a postmaster in Tibet, request
ing him to service it. The cover
came back to me in good form on
September 10. 1910, almost a whole
year later. 1t is cacheted in a rec
tangular frame: Not Opened BY
Censor
II showed this cover to some of
the dealers in Washington and 1t
was written up in Stamps Maya
zine At that time it was the only
cover so addressed that had been
seen by those to whom I showed it.
I am informed that the Endorsement
Not Opened BY Censor means
either that the dispatching post
master is the censor or that the Off
cial censor is stationed in the post
Office building"
Mr.. Kumler, referring to his
personal procedure in collecting,
adds: MY philatelic specialties are
covers from every geographic SUBJ
division on the map. Including our
own 48 States, the provinces of
Canada, some of the states OF
British India and Malaga and some
of the cantons of Switzerland, I
have covers from about 480 terri
torial units. Some of the more
difficult ones to secure we're: Tristan
da Cunha, mini, Farce and NAL
SllNC 1SldllltS, I1CAISOldllI, Sp4GAbC1-
gen, Thurn and Taxis, Afghanistan,
Mesopotamia before it was Iraq),
Georgia, Armenia, Saudi Arabia,
Barbain, Transbaikalien, etc.
Covers carried by different sys-
TENS of transportation also are
sought by Mr.. Kumler. 81 have
covers carried by pigeon, camel and
dog team, rocket and catapult, zR-3
and the Graf Zeppelin, balloon and
bus" he explains. Some were
mailed on mountain tops, others on
the floor of the sea-"
Friends and relatives of young
men in the Army and Navy are ad-
vised to preserve their letters ex-
actly as received from the postman.
The envelopes should be cut open