Evening star., 1944-03-19
OtanPs
BY James Waldo Fawcen

disclosed the fact that the new
edition of Post ONCE Department s
Official Description of United States
Postage Stamps is ready for dis
tribution. 1t covers the period 1847-
l943 and contains descriptions and
illustrations of all postal adhesives
issued by the Federal Government
during that era of 96 years.
Copies of the booklet may be OBJ
tanned from the superintendent Of
documents, Government Printing
Once, at 80 cents each.
OF course, it will be denied, but
1t nevertheless is true that the long
awaited stamps in honor of the men
and women of the armed services
again are being considered by Post
ONCE Department officers.
The prospect for "commemora-
tives" for the occupied nations Of
the Orient, on the other hand, is
not encouraging.
Meanwhile, existing supplies of
the flag stamps for the conquered"
European countries are being de-
pleted by speculative buying on the
part of collectors who regard them
as "a good investment"
v. P. Halbert, clerk in the post
Office at Kansas City, has proposed
an airmail-special delivery stamped
envelope.
The new Scent airmail stamp,
necessitated by the increase of air.
post transmission rates, will go on
sale in Washington exclusively on
Tuesday morning.
"Cathedrals Adorn the Postage
Stamps of Many Different Nations"
is the title of an article printed in
the Cathedral Age magazine for
Easter. The writer is a Washington
collector who has been interested in
cathedral architecture and history
for many years. His work is illus
trated with a display of Sc differ
ent stamps from almost as many
countries, the list including: France,
Italy, Austria, Germany, Czecho-
slovada, Hungary, Rumania, Poland,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and
Portugal.
Readers desiring to secure copies
Of the magazine may address WASH
ington Cathedral Offices, Mount
st. Alban, Washington, D. c., in
closing remittance of so cents for
each copy wanted.
The legitimate purpose of post
age stamp is to indicate the prepay
ment of postal charges. When
government ceases to be able to rem
der transmission services, it ceases
to have any valid right to issue
stamps. Such is the plight of the
Philippine Commonwealth govern
ment in exile. It's lack of moral
justification for continuing to ex-
plot collectors by manufacturing
and selling stamps which cannot be
used in the Philippines at this or
any other Immediately discernible
time is proved by the fact that
standing orders for further re-
prints were Cancelled when the
operators of the Philippine Phila-
telic Agency learned that inquiries
were being made concerning their
policies and procedures.
Current patriotic postal meter
slogans include: I'VE finish what |
we start" Give them both barrels,
Keep well to help win the war;"
do the best you can with what you
have to do it with" and BE ashamed
to fail the Red Cross
Members of the younger genera
ton in local philatelic circles now
serving in the Navy are: Albert c. |
Kunze, son of the president of the
Washington Philatelic Society; Rob-
ert Lowering MacKnight, son Of the |
secretary of the same organization,
and Hugh Robertson, grandson of
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, phila-
telic curator of the Smithsonian In
stitution.
Don Houseworth, editor of the In
ternational Stamp Review, St. Jo-
seph, Mo, has rearranged the
George Washington bicentennial
stamps of 1882 as they should be ac-
cording to the natural development
of his life. The portrait shown on
the li2c issue shows the father of
the American Nation at 40. In Sc
quence, then, the series goes: &c,
As; Sc, As; 7c, 48; &c, 40; lc, So; &c,
so; &c, g.; Sc, So; 1Oc, So; DC, "a, and
SC, 66.
China has seven new postage VAL
ues ranging from 10 cents to 50.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, pssidence of Mrs.
Miller Hickerson, 3102 Twenty
fourth street NE. Program and ex-
hibition.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Washington
Airmail Society and Capital Pre-
cancel Club, joint meeting, Thom-
son School, Twelfth and L streets
NV. Program, exhibition and
bourse. Representative Chet Holi-
fleld guest of honor
Wednesday avening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Lee
Sheraton Hotel, Fifteenth and L
streets NV. United Nations pro-
gram, with John Manos of the En-
bassy Of Greece as speaker; exhibi-
ton OF stamps and covers of Allies
and friendly countries.
STAMPS AND COINS.
WASHINGTON STAMP co.
931 Pa. Ave. NV, Wash. ID. c,