Evening star., 1942-03-08

ton officer, a surgeon. a clerk in
district court, a cultivator agent
and seven housewives.
Stamps retrieved from the Ari-
zona, sunk at Pearl Harbor Decem-
Der 7, have been returned to the
Division of Stamps. Post once De-
partment, for redemption. Among
them are 1O-cent special delivery
| adhesives now red in color, the
blue element in the ink having
disappeared.
The deputy collector of Internal
Revenue, room 1902, Internal Reve-
nue. Building, has specimens of the
81 bright green national firearms
tax stamp on sale. A reproduction
of the coat Of arms of the United
States is the feature of the design.
Clark Collard is editing a stamp
column for the new Chicago Sun.
Thirty heroic" Americans are
portrayed in series of poster
stamps designed by Louis Bonhajo
and produced by r. L. Parkinson Of
Chicago. now being distributed by
Jewel Food Stores, Borden's and
Horizons ice cream companies and
other merchandising chains.
Richard Mop. Cabeen, stamp edi-
tor of the Chicago Tribune, writes:
"On May 81, 1861, the United States
Post Office ceased to function in the
seeded States and this was the oc-
casion for an editorial in the Chi
cago Tribune of that date which
read: mo More Mails Today the
United States mail service in all
the rebel States is closed. Hereafter
the men who, for months past, have,
while defying the authority Of the
Government been content to re-
ceive their mail matter at its hands,
and at the expense of the hated
Yankees of the North, must now
provide for themselves. The cost of
a postal system like that. which they
have caused to be withdrawn, will
exhaust the already impoverished
eXchequer of the rebels; and unless
their prospects brighten or they get
a chance to steal something, they
will be compelled to take another
backward step toward barbarism and
give up the receipt and carrying Of
letters, except by the methods yet in
vogue in Dahomey on the other
side of the water. After this date all
letters deposited in Northern post
offices for any places in the seced-
ing States. except so much thereof as
are included in Tennessee and West
ern Virginia, will be sent to the dead
letter Office in Washington"
Cubas "for democracy" propa-
ganda stamps went on sale Febru-
ary %. They are-1c, green, globe
with ribbon reading America. Un
Nuevo Mundo" cAmerica, A New
World'D; Sc, brown, national coat
of arms with portrait of Maceo,
Bolivar, Juarez and Abraham Lin
coin and inscription "Todas las
Razas Caben en- America" C"All the
Races Find Room in American: SC,
blue, worker with anvil, hammer,
etc, and caption "Trabajo, Riqueza
de America" CLabor, Wealth OF
America~; 10c, violet red. "Arbol de
la Fraternidad en- la Habana" c'Tree
of Brotherhood in HavanaD; 13c,
rose, Statue of Liberty, New York
Harbor.
The golden jubilee" stamps Of
Gilbert and Ellice Islands have been
withdrawn because of the japanese
invasion.
Rumania has released three pic
torial stamps to commemorate the
recovery of BeSsarabia from Russia.
Five portraits of Benjamin Frank
lin are included in 16 different
poster stamps in his honor offered at
zoe set by the Poster Stamp Pub
fishing Co.. 2445 South Damen ave-
nue., Chicago.
The words post haste" meaning
rapidly" or quickly" are "a sur
vival from the days of the post
chaise, which was then the quickest
means Of travelling" See Chapman's
The Gentleman Usher" 1906.
James F. Duhamel. corresponding
secretary of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants, has suggested
the revival of reversing en-
velopes for second use to save paper
in wartime. He calls attention to
the fact that such souvenirs of the
War of the Secession, 1861-1865,
eagerly are sought by collectors.