Evening star., 1942-09-27
Among the Stamp Collectors
Ne1os of the Phlateic World Interests and PEOPLE
By James Waldo Fa,vcen.


stamps, albums, catalog and phil
telic accessories to servicemen should
send their gifts to the United Service
Organizations. Philatelic Division.
Empire State Building, New York
City.
If it be reported that President
Roosevelt is considering another
war propaganda stamp somebody is
sure to deny it as another un-
authorized rumor." But the story
Is true, just the same-even if Moth
Ing comes of 1t.
The new wartime bantam
stamps Of the Union OF South Africa
are appearing One is a 1l2-cent
value. about two-thirds standard
size
Haiti announces a series of re-
ligious stamps, bearing representa-
ton of Our Lady Of Perpetual Aid,
"the national protectoress." The de-
nominations are: 3, S, 10, Is, 20, 25,
SO cents, $3.50 green and S. green,
regular postage: 10. Is. so, so cents
and SIPS green airpost.
New Zealand's 1912 health stamps
will be released in October, The de-
sign shows two children in swing,
Values: plus "A, plus /.
Willard Otis Wylie. editor emeritus
of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News,
writes of the late Col E. H. R. Green
In terms OF understanding sympathy
explaining that he died on June 8,
1886, after "a lifelong fight against
knee injuries sustained when he was
I years old"-"a confirmed bachelor
for 40 years, waiting for bride who
would marry him for what he was,
rather than for what he had" The
greatest stamp accumulation of his
time in America. he also loved roses
and had n acres of rosebuds
under glass"
The first issue of SCOTS Standard
Postage Stamp Catalogue, according
10 Walter Kaner. consisted OF "a
paees and sold for Is cents.
A national Photographic service is
quitting out series of pictures pub
Ici1ng the stamp department OF
Gimbel Brothers New York store.
wallace H. Cathcart, IT, veteran
philatelist. died at Shaker Heights,
Ohio, September 6.
Denny Shute, golf star, is a stamp
collector in his spare time.
Prisoners Of war are the only
persons permitted to send mail any
where in the world without paying
postage.
BENJAMIN Franklin, whose por-
trait adorns the first United States
postage stamp, 1847, anticipated the
parachute fighting forces of today,
when he wrote in 1884: at appears,
as you observe, to be discovery OF
great importance and what may
possibly give a new turn to human
affairs. Convincing sovereigns Of
the folly OF wars may perhaps be
one effect of 1t, since it will be inn
practicable for the most potent OF
them to guard his dominions. Five
Thousand balloons capable Of raising
two men each would not cost more
than Ave ships of the line. And
where, is the prince who can afford
50 TO- cover his country with troops
for its defense, as that ten thousand
men descending from the clouds,
might not in many places do an in
finite deal of mischief before
force could be brought together to
replace them?"
H. E. Harris & Co., 108 Massa-
chusetts avenue, Boston, Mass, has
brought out a 118-page illustrated
pamphlet on the airmail stamps of
the world. Copies will be sent on
application. Inclose 4 cents in
mint commemorative for postage.
Stamps Magazine, New York, re-
marks: Some dealers are taking
advantage of the situation and un-
der the cloak of patriotism are SELL
ing Junk that should never be Of
fered."
Carl Sherman Brandebury. Asso-
ciated Press executive until 1880 and
q lifelong stamp collector who had
learned the fascination of philately
as boy In Washington, died at Kew
Gardens, N. Y. September Is.
Ernest A. Kehr, philatelic editor
OF the New York Hersld-Tribune.
reports that the public is critical OF
the division of SCOTS Standard
Postage Stamp Catalogue into two
parts. Neither the idea nor the
initial book" he says, was received
with much enthusiasm among deal
efs and collectors of the metropol-
itan area"
Part 2 of the annual volume will
be released on october 2, Later
both portions will be available in a
single binding.
Vatican City postal authorities
have brought out a stamp to puo-
licize the activities of the Papal Bu-
reau of Information and Research
IN behalf of prisoners of war, The
new issue is printed in three colors
and shows Christ surrounded by
suppliants.
The popularity of the stamp ex-
hibition of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton is attested by the crowds of
soldiers. sailors, marines and mere
civilians seen around the cases Of
frames at the Arts and Industries
Building in The Mall,
Shortly before his death in 1879,
Sir Rowland Hill, sponsor of the
Penny Black of Great Britain
first adhesive postage stamp-wrote:
Like every one else who endeavors
TO effect improvements in existing
institutions, it has been my lot to
encounter Misrepresentation. injus-
tice and strenuous, though doubtless
often honest opposition; but, on the
other hand, there are probably few
innovators who have had the good