Evening star., 1943-08-08
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News of World
OF Philately
And Its People
By James WaIdo Faveeff.

By James Waldo Fa,cceH.
As announced on Monday. . series
OF Allied military postage stamps
has been printed for the use Of
troops invading the fortress of
Europe. Denominations thus far
listed are: Is, IS, 80, 50 and 80
centisimi and /, 2, and 10 lira.
The designs have not been dis
closed, but 1t Is understood that each
stamp Is bi-colored.
The message Of Postmaster Gen
efal Frank c. Walker to Brazil, read
by Third Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Ramsey 8. Black at the Pam
American Union Building last Sun
day. Is q document we'll worthy Of
preservation by stamp collectors. 1t
reads Is follows:
This day, August /, 1913, should
be considered one Of cardinal i'm
portance to every man, woman and
child in the Western Hemisphere,
for 1t marks the Tooth anniversary
Of the introduction by the govern
ment Of Brazil of the national use
Of postage stamps in the Americas.
While the initial experiment in this
postal medium was still undergoing
its earliest tests in England, where
it had been introduced but three
years before, and was there being
subjected to the most intense and
devastating criticism, far-seeing
statesmen Of Brazil recognized It's
advantage to the people as q whole.
Although conditions were far less
favorable to its success in an un-
developed expsnse q hundred fold
broader than the British Isles, yet
Brazil confidently undertook the
venture, thus setting in motion an
experiment that has proved uni
versally successful and which soon
was adopted by every other Ameri-
can government.
For having taken this lead in the
Americas in facilitating this broader
and more convenient exercise of the
inalienable freedom of expression,
the people Of Brazil are Justly to be
congratulated. 1t Is indeed a pleas.
ure on this program, presented in
the Hall of the Americas by the
Pan-American Union In co-opera-
tion with the American Philatelic
Congress, to extend to his excellency,
DR.. Getulio Vargas. President Of
Brazil. our great South American
ally in the struggle to uphold the
Four Freedoms, the congratulations
OF the United States of the North.
The postage stamp smybolizes a
function of government which is
useful to and used by more citizens
than any other service of free gov
ernmeDt. That, in itself, when one
considers the almost incomprehensi-
BILE magnitude of the postal services,
gives an unique Importance to post
age stamps. Through the postal
services the meeting of minds of
men widely separated has become
such an easy matter that no one
need be deprived OF the advantage
of extensive communication. Friend
ly relations have resulted. Com
merce, business, culture and educa-
ton no longer remain local institu-
tions. Provincialism and isolation
in the Americas received a telling
blow when postage stamps 100 years
ago rendered the exchange of letters
so simple a matter. Direct, personal,
intimate, prompt and reliable dis
patch of communications came with
in the reach of every man through
the mere affixing of a small, mex
pensive postage stamp.
THE closer, cordial and more init
mate contacts which have developed
between the peoples of the Americas
are, IN large measure. attributable
to the ease with which they have
been enabled to communicate with
one another.
There Is no doubt that the cul-
ture, commerce, education and cor
dial relations now so closely binding
the American people would indeed
have been much slower of accom-
| plishment had the simple device of
governmental postage stamps not
been conceived.
Through stamp designs, which
are prepared with the greatest care,
thought and artistry, nations have
been enabled to confer new and
| signal distinction upon national
heroes such as Washington, Dom
Pedro, Bolivar, Jefferson, San Mar
| tin and many others. National re-
sources have been made known to
the world at large; national ideolo-
gieS have been publiciZed through
symbolic designs; scenic beauties
have been pointed out with Just
national pride. Interest in these de-
signs and their subject matter have
developed new field of interest.
These great benefits have be-
come the property of the peoples of
the Americas through the develop
ment of the experiment which
Brazil, just one century ago, proved
was as applicable to the broad ex-
panSes of the New World as to the
congeSted areas of the British Isles
and her closely knit empire.
To-day America salutes BRAZIL"
In response to Mr.. Walkers
greeting DR.. Fernando Lobo, repre-
senting DR.. Carlos Martins, Brazil
ian Ambassador, said in part:
OIlquCSliOlinUly Vic 1IlltidCiNc VI
the Brazilian Empire denoted prog
ress and desire to develop inter-
course among her people by means
Of the little stamp, a colorful SYM
boil.
Through that step the Brazilian
Empire also won public and private
confidence for the gradual develop
ment of communications at home
and abroad.
Thus the first stamp of the Amer
lean republics was forerunner OF
that economic and human unity of
the Western Hemisphere, brought
about through the strengthening Of
the ties of friendship among the
nations Of America"
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at the Thomson
School on The ayapipo st o